The difference

Winter Fun in July

FYA,

Enter Your Name and see what happens.

http://www.chezclodio.com/divers/Hi.html

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

Photos from Texas Repubican Party Convention

FYI,

The photos that I took at the Republican Party of Texas State Convention
in San Antonio can be found at the Republican Party of Galveston County
web site at:

http://www.GalvestonCountyGOP.com

You can order prints or other merchandise with any of the photos by
going to the link below. You can also forward this to your family and
supporters in case they want to order prints as well.

http://www.digibug.com/handytech?login=texasgopconvention

You can always download the photos from the Party's web site, but the
photos available on Digibug.com are the highest resolution suitable for
the best prints.

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take It Anymore

FYI,

"I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take It Anymore"
LtCol Oliver L. North's Freedom Alliance
http://www.freedomalliance.org/view_article.php?a_id=679

Immigration Solution: Do as Mexico Does, Ha!

As hundreds of thousands of protesters gather on Monday to show their
support for the pro-immigration movement, Freedom Alliance
(www.freedomalliance.org) plans to start a movement of its own, the “I’m
Mad as Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take it Anymore!” coalition.

Freedom Alliance is asking Americans to call, email and fax their
congressional offices – particularly those in support of illegal
immigrants, talk radio, local newspapers and whoever will listen and say
“immigration is out of control, I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Gonna Take
it Anymore!”

“Senator Reid won’t take immigration seriously until illegal immigrants
begin invading Capitol Hill or his cushy office,” said Freedom Alliance
President, Tom Kilgannon. “His wavering on the immigration bill shows
why he is the minority party leader, he isn’t listening the majority of
Americans.”

“What’s more, people are protesting for rights for illegals in America
that they aren’t entitled to in Mexico,” says Freedom Alliance
Immigration Policy Analyst, Jon Dougherty. “Let’s give Congress
something to worry about while on recess for the next two weeks.”

According to an official translation published by the Organization of
American States, the Mexican constitution includes the following
restrictions:

- Pursuant to Article 33, “Foreigners may not in any way participate in
the political affairs of the country.” This ban applies, among other
things, to participation in demonstrations and the expression of
opinions in public about domestic politics like those much in evidence
in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in recent days.
Equal Employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones.
Article 32: “Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality
of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment,
positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of
citizenship is not indispensable.”

- Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens
resident in the country.” What is more, private individuals are
authorized to make citizen's arrests. Article 16 states, “In cases of
flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his
accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest
authorities.” In other words, Mexico grants its citizens the right to
arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution.
Imagine the Minutemen exercising such a right!

- The Mexican constitution states that foreigners -- not just illegal
immigrants -- may be expelled for any reason and without due process.
According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive
power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to
abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of
previous legal action.”

"Mexico has rarely been a reliable ally in terms of helping staunch the
illegal flow of its citizens to the United States. In fact, Mexico
usually does all it can to aid that process," Dougherty said. "But
clearly, over the years, Mexican lawmakers have put their own people and
their own nation first in terms of drafting immigration and foreign
labor laws. For once, American lawmakers can follow the lead of their
counterparts south of the border. They should adopt the same laws."

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

Did Jesus Walk on Water? Or Ice?

FYI,

A miracle no less, if true. I wonder if the Myth-Buster guys will try
to duplicate this? :)

"Did Jesus Walk on Water? Or Ice? - Scientist says Sea of Galilee could
have had frozen patches in Jesus' day"
MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12152740/from/RSS/

illustration of how rare phenomena might have allowed such a feat
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Photos/060404/spring.jpg

: Rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see ice on the
: Sea of Galilee that a person could have walked on back when Jesus is
: said to have walked on water, a scientist reported Tuesday.

: The study, which examines a combination of favorable water and
: environmental conditions, proposes that Jesus could have walked on an
: isolated patch of floating ice on what is now known as Lake Kinneret
: in northern Israel.

: Looking at temperature records of the Mediterranean Sea surface and
: using analytical ice and statistical models, scientists considered a
: small section of the cold freshwater surface of the lake. The area
: studied, about 10,000 square feet (930 square meters), was near salty
: springs that empty into it.

: The results suggest temperatures dropped to 25 degrees Fahrenheit (-4
: degrees Celsius) during one of the two cold periods 2,500 to
: 1,500 years ago for up to two days, the same decades during which
: Jesus lived.

: With such conditions, a floating patch of ice could develop above the
: plumes, resulting from the salty springs along the lake's western
: shore in Tabgha. Tabgha is the town where many archeological findings
: related to Jesus have been found.

: "We simply explain that unique freezing processes probably happened in
: that region only a handful of times during the last 12,000 years,"
: said Doron Nof, a Florida State University professor of oceanography.
: "We leave to others the question of whether or not our research
: explains the biblical account."

: Nof figures that in the last 120 centuries, the odds of such
: conditions on the low-latitude Lake Kinneret are most likely
: 1-in-1,000. But during the time period when Jesus lived, such “springs
: ice” may have formed once every 30 to 60 years.

: Such floating ice in the unfrozen waters of the lake would be hard to
: spot, especially if rain had smoothed its surface.

: "In today's climate, the chance of springs ice forming in northern
: Israel is effectively zero, or about once in more than 10,000 years,"
: Nof said.

: The findings are detailed in April's issue of the Journal of
: Paleolimnology. Nof has posted a PDF file of the research to his Web
: site.

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

Fake Money for Fake Politicians Unwilling to Stop Illegal Immigration

Click for printable version, which can be sent to your Congressman, Senator, etc. who refuse to pass legislation to stop illegal immigration and fix the legal immigration process.

Just remember that you are not a politician, so don't try to spend this fake money.

Mohammed Image Archive - Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History

Controversy over the publication of images depicting Mohammed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten has erupted into an international furor. While Muslims worldwide are calling for a boycott of Denmark and any other nation whose press reprints the cartoons, Europeans are trying to stand up for Western principles of freedom of speech and not cave in to self-censorship in the name of multiculturalism and fear.

While the debate rages, an important point has been overlooked: despite the Islamic prohibition against depicting Mohammed under any circumstances, hundreds of paintings, drawings and other images of Mohammed have been created over the centuries, with nary a word of complaint from the Muslim world. The recent cartoons in Jyllands-Posten are nothing new; it's just that no other images of Mohammed have ever been so widely publicized.

This page is an archive of numerous depictions of Mohammed, to serve as a reminder that such imagery has been part of Western and Islamic culture since the Middle Ages -- and to serve as a resource for those interested in freedom of
expression.

The images in the archive below have been divided into the
following categories:

- Islamic Paintings and Miniatures Showing Mohammed in Full

- Islamic Depictions of Mohammed with Face Hidden

- European Medieval and Renaissance Images

- Book Illustrations
- Dante's Inferno
- French Book Covers
- Various Eras

- Contemporary Christian Drawings

- Animated TV Parodies

- Satirical Modern Cartoons
- The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons
- Recent Responses to the Controversy

- Links

The Jyllands-Posten Cartoons The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten created the furor over depictions of Mohammed by publishing a series of 12 drawings
after a local author said he was unable to find any artist willing to depict Mohammed for his upcoming illustrated book. The publication of the images in Jyllands-Posten has been condemned around the Islamic world, and has led to
calls for a boycott of Denmark by Muslim nations. Here are the Jyllands-Posten drawings, for the record:

Imams Showed Pedophile Mohamed
2006-01-14
Danish Drawings of the Prophet Mohammed Blog

The Danish newspaper, EkstraBladet, has obtained a copy of the secret case file, which Islamisk Trossamfund (Danish Islamic Community) has distributed on their "road show" in the Middle East: (Viste pædofil Muhamed - the text is in Danish but the article links to all 43 images).

It turns out that the 12 drawings in JyllandsPosten weren't sufficiently bad - at least not to justify a trip to the Middle East - so the imams have inserted a few extra images to make sure their trip wasn't a waste of money.

Danish Islamic Community claim they have received these images in mail, but they refuse to tell Danish newspapers, who has received them - and they won't allow the newspapers to interview these people. Danish Islamic Community has also failed to explain, why an entire country must be denigrated all over the Middle East because of 3 drawings mailed by a single person.

As long as Danish Islamic Community have failed to properly explain, where they have obtained these images, why these images were distributed in the entire Middle East - and exactly what the Danish Islamic Community were hoping to achieve - we must assume the images belong to Danish Islamic Community.

The irony is that in doing so the Muslims have done exactly what they accuse the non-Muslims of doing: They have broken Muslim law by reproducing, publishing and distributing drawings of the prophet. And they have managed to out-blaspheme the infidel Danes by reproducing 3 blasphemous pictures that are far worse than anything ever published in JyllandsPosten.

The imams have not yet explained on their homepage, http://www.wakf.com/, why they distributed these disgusting images - and what they were hoping to achieve.

Flash On-line Detective Games

FYA,

A Case of the Crabs - Flash game
http://www.otterarchives.com/bountygame.html

: Something stinks and it smells like crab, only there's something funny
: about these crustaceans. You play as Detective Nick Bounty, who
: despite his ability to solve the most tangled cases, has yet to work
: for a paying client. This time it's up to you to discover who knocked
: off a local seafood salesman and get to the bottom of a diabolical
: counterfeiting operation!

The Goat in the Grey Fedora - Flash game
http://www.otterarchives.com/bounty2/index.html

: is the follow up to the award winning Point & Click adventure, "A Case
: of the Crabs". This time, detective Nick Bounty sets out to find a
: missing ceramic goat for the neice of a recently deceased lawyer. He
: soon finds out, however, that he isn't the only one looking for it!

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

SantaStars Christmas Lights Around the World

Merry Christmas,

Click on the SantaStars on the map to see the Christmas lights.
http://www.santastars.com

You can even add your photo of your Christmas light display.

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

Christmas Puzzle Card

FYI,

Here is a cute Christmas puzzle e-card with music.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=ER13610552

Merry Christmas!
(Happy Holidays to all others not calibrating Christmas.)

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

MapSexOffenders.com

FYI,

A little late for Halloween, but scary never the less. But better to know than
not about where these scum are lurking.

MapSexOffenders.com
Orbizon, Inc.
http://www.mapsexoffenders.com

: This website is provided as a public service by Orbizon, Inc. Using this
: website, interested members of the public have access to information about
: offenders, who, in most cases, have been convicted of sexually-violent offenses
: against adults and/or children and certain sexual contact and other crimes
: against victims who are minors. The public can use this website to educate
: themselves about the possible presence of such offenders in their local
communities.

: Zoom in to level 3 to view sex offenders.

Click on red dot to see name, photo and address of offender. Click on name to
pull up more detail on their crime.

PS: The leftist forum where I was "dumpster diving" at and found this gem, thought
this was a bad thing. Go figure!

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

French Toast - France suspends 8 police officers for beating youth

Mon deu! Parisian salute'.

PARIS, Nov 10 (Reuters) - France has suspended eight police officers after two of them beat a young man they had detained during rioting in a suburb north
of Paris and the other six looked on, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

The youth beaten by police had been detained "in the context of the recent urban violence". He suffered superficial injuries to the forehead and foot, the ministry said.

Don't be a Jive Turkey this Thanksgiving :)

FYA,

Cheer up, don't be a "Jive Turkey" this Thanksgiving :)

"Survival Song" animated music video
American Greeting Cards
http://www.msn.americangreetings.com/view.pd?i=382219626&m=1652&rr=y&source

Happy Thanksgiving in advance.

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Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

Causes of Color

FYI,

Fascinating explanation and examples of what causes the color of things.

Causes of Color
http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolor

--
Mark Reiff <markreiff@earthlink.net>

Looters, what looters? - Texans know why there is a 2nd Amendment 

Oh, the Huge Manatee!

Prayer Service Program page 2 

Prayer Service Program page 1 

My Republican Bumpersticker Idea