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Chile’s 33 Trapped Miners: The Real Story Starts

The story of Chile’s 33 trapeed miners started 19 day’s ago but the real story long after the 33 trapped miners had been given up on.

Day one of the ongoing rescue as reported as reported at MercoPress

When the probe came back it had a note tied to it saying “we’re fine down here in the shelter, the 33 of us” a rescue worker said. The men were working at a depth of around 700 metres at the San Jose mine, near the city of Copiapo, when the rock above them collapsed.

A television camera managed to film several of the miners at the shelter, with no shirts but looking strong who waved enthusiastically. The clip was seen by President Piñera and officials and will be shown to families and friends before putting it on the air.

On hearing the news Chileans in many cities took to the streets to celebrate, cars sounded their horns, flags were flown and in some public gatherings the national anthem was sung.

Until Sunday, there had been no word from the miners and hopes for their survival had all but faded. Several attempts to drill into the shelter had failed.

President Piñera was at the mine on Sunday when he announced the breakthrough. Brandishing the miners’ note for TV cameras he hailed the news saying:

”It will take months to get them out. It will take time, but it doesn’t matter how long it takes, to have a happy ending.“

The miners are reported to be 7 kilometres inside gold and copper mine and about 700 metres vertically underground. They have been trapped since 5 August when the main access tunnel collapsed.

Authorities said the men are in a mine shaft shelter about the size of a small apartment and have limited amounts of food. Rescuers plan to send narrow plastic tubes down the borehole with food, hydration gels and communications equipment, including cameras and microphones.

However, the chief engineer in charge of the rescue operation, Andres Sougarret, has warned that it will take at least four months and more powerful digging equipment to reach the men.

”A shaft 66 centimetres in diameter will take at least 120 days,” he said.

On Saturday relatives of the trapped men had accused the authorities of not doing enough to reach the men. One of their complaints was that officials had so far insisted on using probes to locate the miners, rather than digging tunnels through which they could be rescued.

Many of the trapped men’s relatives have been camped outside the mine since the tunnel collapse occurred. There were jubilant scenes as the news that contact had been made broke.

When the mine collapsed Piñera who was in Colombia for the taking office of President Juan Manuel Santos flew back to Chile and promised “every possible human effort” to rescue the miners.

Further landslides abort an attempt to reach the miners through ventilation ducts.

News begins to surface that the mine was not in conditions to be operated and several investigations on the issue are instructed.

After the first week Mining Minister Laurence Golborne admits that making contact with the trapped miners will take days given the complexity of the operation and a first probe drilling misses the shelter.

However on Saturday micro-cameras reveal that the collapse area reached 400 metres but not the 700 metres area where the shelter is located.

On Sunday a drill reaches 688 metres, close to the refuge and a few hours later contact is established. That’s when the miners send the piece of paper saying they are alive.

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Illegals Disgrace US Flag In Arizona

Illegals Disgrace US Flag In Arizona an editorial from a friend. If you are wondering yes it is illegal to do this but it is a federal crime so don’t expect any thing to be done by the Obama administration.

If anyone has any doubts about what these illegals think of us and our country, check out these pictures taken by an acquaintance of mine who went to the rally in Phoenix Saturday 7/31/10 in response to SB 1070.  The illegals had written all over the AZ and US Flags, laid them on the ground, and were walking on them!
Notice the toilet paper in this one
Another acquaintance had this to say:
“I shared those pics with my Best friend who is a cop/detective. I asked him why nobody was punished for desecrating our flags…his response…..
In response to your question about the legality of Desecration of the American Flag, you are correct, this is illegal. However, it is a crime with the Federal Government. Meaning the Feds will have to prosecute for the crime and considering they will not prosecute for illegal trespassing into the Country, what makes you think they will prosecute anyone for spray painting and walking on an American flag?????”
I don’t know about you people, but I’m outraged over all of this!  Judge Bolton did nothing but to empower the illegals and their bleeding heart liberal supporters!  When is enough going to be enough?!!!!!

I have permission from the person that took these pictures to pass them around.  They’re being sent to some news stations as well, although I doubt they’ll air them.  So please pass these around to all those you know, let people see how the illegals who broke our laws by coming here really feel about us!

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Got to love Jan Brewer!

The owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball team, Robert Sarver, opposes AZ’s new immigration laws. Arizona’s Governor, Jan Brewer, released the following statement in response to Sarver’s criticism of the new law:

“What if the owners of the Suns discovered that hordes of people were sneaking into games without paying? What if they had a good idea who the gate-crashers are, but the ushers and security personnel were not allowed to ask these folks to produce their ticket stubs, thus non-paying attendees couldn’t be ejected. Furthermore, what if Suns’ ownership was expected to provide those who sneaked in with complimentary eats and drink? And what if, on those days when a gate-crasher became ill or injured, the Suns had to provide free medical care and shelter?” -Arizona Gov. Jan B

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NRA Issues Gag Order

Its thing’s like this that get my goat about the NRA. The NRA Issues Gag Order to its NRA Board Members. So often over say the past 10 years the NRA has made decisions that just don’t make a lot of since to me and the NRA issuing a gag order on

Internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members are highlighting just how far the National Rifle Association has fallen.

The organization recently collaborated with the left to obtain a carve out of the DISCLOSE Act, legislation designed to silence bloggers and outside interest groups like tea party activists. This was a first amendment issue and the NRA gladly took a position and campaigned for its members to take a position on the DISCLOSE Act.

One of the NRA’s chief arguments was that it needed the carve out to be effective in its advocacy of Second Amendment issues. But here’s the problem: these internal Senate emails confirmed by NRA Board Members show that the National Rifle Association’s management team has explicitly and directly told the NRA’s board they are prohibited from testifying about second amendment issues during the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings.

That’s right: the foremost gun rights lobby in the nation is prohibiting its board from testifying in the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings about the second amendment.

The NRA did issue a statement on Friday after the internal Senate email began leaking out informing people of the gag order. The statement noted Kagan’s problematic record on guns, but that’s just smoke and mirrors. Don’t believe them when they say they are working with Senators to investigate her record. If they were really working with Senators, they would have accepted an invitation to testify on the Kagan nomination when they were invited. The NRA gag order on board members is not limited to providing testimony, but it prohibits board members from coming out against Kagan in their individual capacity.

If the NRA is really working with pro-guns Senators and Kagan is really hostile to Second Amendment rights, which she is, they will score her confirmation vote and actually make the score count this time, unlike they did on the confirmation of Sonya Sotomayor. With Sotomayor, they waited until several days after RedState began demanding a score and then, in effect, announced they’d score it and ignore it.

First they collaborated with the left to get the DISCLOSE Act through the House, now they are blocking their own from speaking out against Elena Kagan. Is this the deal the NRA cut with the left? They get a carveout and shut up their board?

NRA issues a gag order on NRA board members just doesn’t  seem like the right thing to do. If you can help explain this decision, help me out?

PLEASE !!

Original story at:

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2010/06/27/nra-issues-gag-order-to-its-board-members-on-elena-kagan/

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The New Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Uniform

For those of you wondering what the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Uniform for the Army might look like. Here is Barney Frank idea of what it should be. It have some of the old style but leaves off some of the old styling.

Photo of  The Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Uniform

Dont Ask Dont Tell Army Uniform

Here is a photo of the Don't Ask Don't Tell Uniform

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Ray Stevens video Come To The USA

Here is the Ray Stevens Come To The USA video it is new and it is funny while at the same time has some truth to it. The Ray Stevens Come to The USA is also a bit of a sad statement of the state of our politics.Hope you like it just sit back and enjoy.

Ray Stevens Come To The USA Video

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BP Oil Spill Live Feed: Boring

It seems the BP Oil spill live feed has got the attention of many. So we have a short click of it here as well as the BP Oil Spill Live Feed. But be warned its boring. I watched the Oil spill live feed for a minute or maybe 2. No it could not have been more than a minute it just seemed longer because it was boring. Its like taking a short video and running it over and over. Give it a try with this video of the BP Oil Spill live feed. Just play it over and over. Or you can watch the live feed below.

BP Oil Spill Live Feed Video clip

Courtesy Survival Kit Video Center

Oil Spill Live Feed

Free TV Show from Ustream

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Montebello High School Flag Flip

Montebello  High  School Students in California did a flag flip. This story was sent in by a concerned American that wonders why this does not make it to the main stream media but if the Mexican flag was disturbed in anyway they would of jumped all over it. The answer is the same as usual and does not need to be delved  into in this story. I bet no one was sent home for this. At this time I have no info one way or the other.

See the Montebello  High  School Flag Flip story below.

You  will not see this heart-stopping photo on the  front page of the NY Times, nor on the lead  story of the major news networks. The protesters  at Montebello High School took the  American flag off the school’s flag pole and  hung it upside down while putting up the Mexican  flag over it.  (*See pictures  below*)

I predict  this stunt will be the nail in the coffin  of any  guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table  in Washington . The image of the  American flag subsumed to another and turned  upside down on American soil is  already spreading on Internet forums and via  e-mail.

Pass this along to every American  citizen in your address  books and to every representative in the state  and federal government.  If you choose to remain uninvolved, do not be  amazed when you no  longer have a nation to call your own nor  anything you have worked  for left since it will be ‘redistributed’ to the  activists while you are  so peacefully staying out of the ‘fray’. Check  history, it is full of nations/empires that  disappeared when its citizens no longer held  their core beliefs and values. One person CAN  make a difference.

One  plus one plus one plus one plus one plus  one…….. ..

The battle for our secure  borders and immigration laws that  actually mean something, however, hasn’t even  begun.

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What Is A Porch Monkey

I notice the term Porch Monkey was in Google Hot Trends.

It struck me as a term I had not heard in many years and had hoped to keep it that way. In fairness I decided to look it up to see how the term Porch Monkey was being used.

Unless I missed something  the phrase Porch Monkey is still better left in the past and not the present or the future.

Here is what I found when searching the term What is a Porch Monkey.

What is an Alabama porch monkey?
A colorful expression for an unemployed black person who is also on Welfare. This person can typically be found, on the front porch not attempting to seek employment.
Is porch monkey a racial slur?

It used to be until Randall Graves brought it back in 2006. Now it is just a term used to describe lazy people.

Is porch monkey a racist term?

Yes it is. Porch Money is a racist term to describe African Americans that are on welfare.Not only is it racist, but it is also very offensive.

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Anti Gun Neighbor Rant

Thought you all might enjoy this. It is from a friend in the northeast. A good law abiding Constitution backing red brooded American. Maybe some of you have a neighbor that needs a lesson. Just check you local laws first and comply as best as possible. Here is how they handled the Anti Gun Neighbors Rant

Ralph, My neighbor is a anti gun person, so I put this sign up in my yard after one of
his anti-gun rants at a neighborhood cocktail party. The sign wasn’t up more
than an hour before he called the police and wanted them to make me take down
the sign. Fortunately, the officer politely informed him that it was not their job to take
such action without a court order and that he had to file a complaint “downtown” first, which
would be reviewed by the city attorney to see if it violated any city, county, or state
ordinances, which if there was a violation a court order would be sent to the offending
party (me) to “remove the sign in seven days”.
After several weeks he was informed that the sign was legal (by a quarter of an inch) and there
was nothing the city could do, which obviously made him madder. I tried to smooth things over
by inviting him to go shooting with me and my friends at the hunt club but that seemed to make him even more
angry. I then asked him if he wanted to go to a party but again he declined my outreach efforts to bring
about a better understanding between political and social opponents.

I am at a loss how to reconcile our long relationship (notice I did not say friendship), any suggestions would be
welcome.

Anyway, that’s life in our neck of the woods, how’s about yours?

Anti Gun Neighbor Rant

Anti Gun Rant backfires.

The sign says:

My Next Door Neighbor wants to Ban all Guns

Thier house is Not Armed

Out of Respect for their opinions I promise Not to use My Guns to Protect Them

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