| Illegal Alien Advocates Ignore the Real Problem
Two United States Catholic bishops have written to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, asking the agency to adopt policies aimed at assisting families and communities affected by immigration raids. Normally I do not engage in discussions relating to religion, but this issue should be important for all Americans, regardless of their religious orientation. I recently testified before the Indiana State Senate about a bill (SB 335) that would enable the state of Indiana to revoke the business license of any business that repeatedly hires illegal aliens, and provides other measures to enable that state to do the job the federal government won't do where immigration is concerned. During the hearing, I listened to a representative of the Catholic Church talk about the need to honor the dignity of the "undocumented immigrants." For the Catholic Church to take a stand on an issue that has such extreme implications for national security is outrageous. What is also outrageous is the fact that while the Church decries the lack of dignity that the arrest of illegal aliens represents (in the Church's judgment), why is the Church conspicuously absent at those factories and other work sites where illegal aliens are horribly treated? Why is the Church not showing up to protest the terrible conditions under which illegal aliens often live and work? During my long career at the former INS, I found (on many occasions) illegal aliens living in abject squalor.
Aussie troops head for Timor after attacks on Ramos-Horta, Gusmao
Locals are anxious for news of the president and media are reeling at news Reinado has been killed. Australian officers with the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) said Mr Ramos-Horta's house in Dili had been cordoned off and troops had rushed to the residence.Australian non-government organisations in Dili were this morning recommending that their staff remain at home.The UN has increased its security in the wake of this morning's shooting, in anticipation of potential reprisal attacks. "UNPol (UN Police) is in a high state of alert in Dili," said UN spokeswoman Allison Cooper. East Timor analyst Sophia Cason said the shooting would likely "unsettle" the precarious security situation in the capital. Ms Cason, of the International Crisis Group, said she had also heard other shooting in the capital this morning.
Casinos blame ban for business loss, layoffs
I know that not smoking is better for your health, I dont' smoke, but is it right to tell other people that they CAN'T? Isn't this taking AWAY their rights and freedoms? If smoke bothers me, I move to a different spot. If someone is old enough to vote, fight for our country, drink, and buy cigs. legally.....Leave them ALONE!!! " .
Now at Hotels: The $250 Cigarette
Dan Cole checked out of his Connecticut hotel early on a Saturday morning last month and found an unwelcome surprise. The Courtyard Marriott Hartford-Farmington had slapped him with a $250 charge for smoking in his nonsmoking room. Mr. Cole is a smoker but insists he didn't light up in the room. He got busted, he thinks, for throwing a few cigarette butts he had stowed in his pants pocket into the room's trash. He pleaded his case to the front desk, but the clerk refused to take off the charge. The next day, Mr. Cole fired off a series of increasingly exasperated emails to customer service and the general manager. "Would you like me to take a polygraph to prove to you that I am not a liar?" he emailed Chris O'Donnell, the hotel's general manager. Mr. Cole is among the growing crowd of smokers ensnared by hotels' new and more stringent no-smoking policies.
How Vatican reacted to mission's wind of change
IT WAS established as a haven where Polish war veterans could worship and in recent years became a place where young migrants could discuss their worries and share their faith.But now a row has erupted over the future of a Catholic mission which exposes a split between the traditional church back in Poland and the new generation of economic migrants.At its heart is a reformist priest who tried to support the influx of devout young Poles, struggling to balance independence with the values of old Poland, where the church exerts a great deal of influence. Now Father Edward Hodurek has been ordered back to Poland by the Vatican and a hall used by the Polish community in Falkirk has been closed and put up for sale. Members of the congregation have been told to attend masses conducted by 30 traditional priests recently brought over from Poland and whose upkeep is to be paid for by the sale of the United Polish Mission.The migrants, led by Joanna Creslik, the chairwoman of a support group for the town's 2,000 recently arrived Poles, have launched a campaign to prevent the sale.
Ice Energy Provides Cox Enterprises with Hybrid Cooling Systems in ...
WINDSOR, Colo., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Ice Energy(R), the premier provider of hybrid cooling technologies, today announced that Cox Enterprises has installed nine Ice Bear(R) systems at two of the company's operations: Manheim California (formerly California Auto Dealers Exchange) facility in Anaheim, California and Cox Communications in San Diego, California. The nine Ice Bear systems are fully operational and will comprehensively reduce the facilities' peak load by 85 kW. The systems will reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by 33 tons and nitrogen oxide emissions by 90 lbs, the equivalent of taking approximately 10 cars off the road each year. "Cooling is the single largest contributor to the blackouts, high electricity bills, increased air pollution and a host of other problems associated with summer's peak electricity demand.
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