From the LA Times

1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County ( L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens

4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi- Cal , whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.

(There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County ).

(All of the above are from the Los Angeles Times)



Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare.



Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth



(and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York )



results from immigration.



29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

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The U.S. Air Force eye exam

He Gave His Life For The Rescue

By KEVIN HARLIN

He wasn't supposed to be there.

Jason Cunningham, a pararescue man, was trained to go into the hairiest situations to bring wounded out.

But the Army Rangers — with whom Senior Airman Cunningham was working — didn't think they would need him.

The Rangers didn't know what the mission would be that March night in Afghanistan in 2002 — only that some special forces were in trouble and they had to bail them out.

With limited space aboard the helicopter, the Rangers wanted to bring more of their own shooters.

Cunningham and two other Air Force special operations guys said nuts — and sneaked aboard the Chinook at Bagram Air Base.

Once aloft, it was too late to leave them behind.

"You train for years. So the last thing you want to do is play chess in the barracks," said Malcolm MacPherson, an ex-Marine and journalist, who in his book "Roberts Ridge" documented the intense battle to follow.

Tragic miscues and faulty communication systems would send that Air Force and Ranger team straight into an al-Qaida and Taliban ambush. In some of the fiercest fighting of that war, Cunningham proved his worth, braving intense fire to make sure 10 wounded Americans made it home alive.

He gave his own life in the process on that 10,240-foot-high mountain known as Takur Ghar — and would land the Air Force Cross, the highest award for an airman short of the Medal of Honor.

Cunningham, born March 27, 1975, grew up in Carlsbad, N.M. He joined the Navy after high school. While stationed in Italy, he met a Navy-enlisted woman, Theresa de Castro, who became his wife and mother of his two daughters.

After a year out of the service, he joined the Air Force in 1999 and completed pararescue jumper training in 2001.

By 2002, he was in Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. And in the early morning hours of March 4, Cunningham and the Rangers were going in to rescue a member of the SEALs, the Navy's elite combat team.

Operation Anaconda was the largest battle of the war to date. Al-Qaida and Taliban forces were massing in the remote Shah-i-Kot valley. U.S. and Afghan forces planned to clear them out.

The Chinook flying the SEAL team to the Takur Ghar peak the night of March 3 found an enemy bunker instead of an expected deserted patch of snow and rock. Machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades crippled the helicopter. As it veered away, Petty Officer 1st Class Neil Roberts fell out the back.

The SEALs went back for their comrade, but met fierce resistance. They took more casualties and had to retreat down the mountain.

The confusion of battle and radio failures meant that Cunningham and the Rangers called in to help knew almost none of this. They expected to land nearby, pick up the SEALs and go home.

Instead, they were given the coordinates for the peak — the deadly kill zone. The sun was coming up. And the enemy was waiting.

As their Chinook — code named Razor 1 — came in to land, RPG and machine-gun fire slammed into the chopper and knocked out the right engine. It fell 10 feet to the ground. Both pilots were wounded by small-arms fire. One of the helicopter's side gunners was killed.

The Rangers, knocked to the ground by the crash, staggered out the back ramp. Enemy fire killed two fast. The survivors began a desperate attack uphill against the entrenched enemy only 60 feet away.

Cunningham and an Army medic immediately treated the wounded.

The downed Chinook soon caught fire. Soldiers later said the chopper was a bullet sponge, soaking up enemy rounds.

A second Ranger team managed to reach the first. With combined forces — and bombs and machine-gun fire from Air Force jets — the Rangers knocked out the bunker.

Cunningham and fellow medics moved the wounded from the burning Chinook to a seeming safe zone.

But the enemy counterattacked. The new casualty collection point outside the helicopter suddenly came under enemy fire.

Cunningham and Army medic Cory Lamereaux couldn't move the wounded by themselves. So they picked up rifles and fought back. For 40 minutes, they kept up the fire before both were hit.

Two bullets hit Lamereaux in the gut, just below his body armor. It was painful, but he would live.

Cunningham was hit once in the small of his back.

He shouted to Lamereaux, "I think I'm OK," according to MacPherson's account of the battle.

He wasn't.

The bullet tore through his liver. He was bleeding internally.

Sporadic fighting would continue throughout the day on Takur Ghar — the peak dubbed Roberts Ridge, after the lost SEAL.

Cunningham's condition sank. The Rangers called for an evacuation helicopter. But the enemy had knocked several helicopters out of the sky. The Americans couldn't risk another chopper and crew until nightfall, five hours away.

It was too late. Cunningham slipped away around 6 that night, 90 minutes before helicopters came.

They brought 10 wounded men off the mountain. Rangers also carried home the bodies of Cunningham and six others, including Roberts, the SEAL they went to rescue.

Operation Anaconda continued for 19 more days in and above the Shah-i-Kot Valley. The Army says hundreds of al-Qaida and Taliban forces were killed. Eight U.S. troops were killed, including the seven at Takur Ghar.

Cunningham was buried at Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery just days after the battle. Since 2004, the compound that houses Air Force personnel at Bagram Air Base has been called Camp Cunningham.

Jared Marquis lauds his brother-in-law, saying Cunningham's heroics inspired him to join the service.

"We don't forget in the Air Force the people who came before us," said Marquis, "and paid the ultimate sacrifice."

Windows Vista did not steal ideas from Mac OS X!

What is he doing?

Niki bought me a new Bed!!

"Refranes Mexicanos"

"Al mal paso, darle prisa"

The Husband's Bill of Rights

"Oh Lord"

Pull up....Pull up!!


Lets point out the obvious!

Huh?


She took my fish!!

Hmmm, what should I do with all these golf balls?

I figured it was a commercial since you can see the golf balls in the vehicle from the upper distance of the camera. How could the guy not see them?

"Refranes Mexicanos"

"Agua que no has de beber, déjala correr"

Iowa pranksters get just desserts: 3,000 forks in their yard

(04-16) 13:55 PDT Dubuque, Iowa (AP) --

When known pranksters Rick and Marilyn Jones left town for a wedding, neighbors seeking payback eyed their property and decided to stick a fork in it — a few thousand forks, in fact.

Tom and Paula Tschudi planted 3,000 white plastic forks in the Jones' yard and dangled more from the roof, fence and garage.

"We just wanted to do something funny to them, because every time we leave, they pull some prank on us," said Paula Tschudi, who promised to help pick up the forks.

Over the years, the Joneses have strung beer cans like holiday lights around the Tschudis' home, put a for-sale sign in their yard and strung yellow crime-scene tape around chalk outlines of bodies on the sidewalk.

As the Tschudis, their two children and another neighborhood family planted the forks Sunday, one passer-by asked what they were doing.

"We told him we were aerating their lawn," Paula Tschudi said with a laugh.

Judge sentences lawyer to 90 days for lewd gesture

(04-16) 17:01 PDT Austin, Texas (AP) --

A flick of the wrist has landed an Austin lawyer in jail for contempt of court. A judge sentenced defense attorney Adam Reposa to 90 days in jail on Tuesday for making a lewd gesture and simulating masturbation while standing before a County Court-at-Law judge in March.

At a contempt hearing Monday, Judge Jan Breland said Reposa, 33, rolled his eyes and looked at her while motioning with his right hand. Reposa said the gesture came from near his hip and was aimed at a prosecutor while discussing plea negotiations in a drunken driving case.

Reposa's attorney asked for a sentence of one day in jail.

Visiting State Judge Paul Davis, however, said it was his "honor to uphold the integrity of the judicial process" and sentenced Reposa to 90 days. The attorney was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.

Davis said he teaches a course on courtroom decorum to new judges and said such cases are very rare. He also noted that Reposa had fluctuated between apologizing for offending Breland and justifying his behavior as a zealous attorney defending a client.

In a closing argument, First Assistant County Attorney Randy Leavitt said Reposa's gesture was just the latest in a string of offensive behavior, which included calling prosecutors vulgar names in court.

Another dumb criminal

A criminal in Manteca, Calif. made a mistake when attempting to rob a home on April 1. Erich Hans Urbat attempted to take a camera from outside of a suburban home; however, it happened to be a video surveillance camera.

The video camera recorded Urbat loosening the screws and taking the camera and sent it to a tape inside of the home. The tape was later given to the police who recognized Urbat’s face.

Urbat was arrested later wearing the same grey hooded sweatshirt he wore in the surveillance video.

“Sometimes we just get really lucky, and they aren’t too bright,” Manteca Police Capt. Dave Bricker said.

Pedophiles have rights, too?

A new law in Indiana, beginning in July, will require all registered sex offenders to submit to police their e-mail addresses, screen names and log-in names to social networking Web sites. They will also be required to install software on their computer that will allow police to monitor what they are doing on their computer at any given time.

“If we can look into their private Internet and look into what they're doing, and they're contacting somebody they shouldn't be, that's going to help stop them,” Scott County Sheriff John Lizenby told local newspapers.

Despite this law being put into place to protect the victims, one registered sex offender, Steve Morris, says that it violates his right of the Fourth Amendment. As a result, Morris is suing every sheriff and prosecutor in the state of Indiana.

The Fourth Amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures of property. According to the Supreme Court, law enforcement cannot conduct a search without probable cause and a search warrant.

What about the victims' rights?

Weird News

A Dallas tow-truck driver hastily returned a car after realizing there was a 7-year-old boy asleep in the back seat.

When he got back to where he took the car, Fidel Retana saw the angry parents, so immediately unhooked the vehicle and left, police said. He was later charged with child endangerment, but cops said the rap would likely be dropped.

A patient discharged from a Colorado hospital stole an ambulance and turned on the siren, leading cops on a 100-mph chase.

Mickey Stevenson Terry, 35, was stopped only when he wrecked the ambulance. He was taken back to the hospital - this time under armed guard.

A retiree in Wales lived in pain for 50 years following a motorcycle crash, only to discover his leg had been broken all along.

Roy Calloway, 70, thought the pain was a side effect of the accident, and used a walking stick to get around.

"The pain had been intolerable for so long it was part of my life," he said. "I've been living in agony for half a century."

World’s most expensive cup of coffee

Caffe Raro is said to be the world’s most expensive coffee. The coffee sells for about 50 pounds per cup (roughly $98). The coffee comes from the rare Kopi Luwak beans.

The Kopi Luwak beans are eaten and then expelled by the Asian palm civet. The Asian palm civet is said to be able to pick the best coffee beans, and their stomach breaks down the fruit leaving just the bean.

Workers collect the beans and wash off the excrement. The coffee beans are then roasted for around 12 minutes to maximize the potential of the coffee. I will stay with Folgers!!

Ketchup plus eggs equals antisocial youths

Norfolk officials have banned the sale of tomato ketchup and eggs to minors because it is believed to cause antisocial behavior. According to authorities, several complaints were coming in about youths squirting ketchup at passing vehicles, or at windows or doors.

As a result, local supermarkets were told to “challenge” youths who were trying to buy ketchup in squirting bottles or eggs. Local police even posted signs supporting this on the supermarket windows.

“I know it sounds a bit daft, but it has made a difference because we have had no more reported incidents since the supermarkets came on board with this,” said Sgt. Andy Brown.

A German man survived a 25-foot plunge down an elevator shaft only to land on top of a 57-year-old woman who had toppled down the shaft the day before.

Despite causing her further injury, he likely saved her life, police said.

"The woman had been lying unconscious in the shaft for some time already," said police spokesman Manfred Vonhausen.

It took 76 years on the road for Jack Higgs to finally crash his car but, boy, was it a doozy!

The 93-year-old took out not one, but two gleaming new Porsches with his Ford Fiesta, causing $120,000 worth of damage outside a showroom in Wales.

"I can't understand it. Nothing like this has happened to me before," Higgs said, estimating that he has driven half a million miles in his lifetime.

Apparently, this is one way of getting someone's attention.

Police in Billings, Mont., were called after a naked man brandishing a handgun ran through a hotel asking for help getting into his room.

First, the man knocked on several doors, then jumped over the check-in counter at the Comfort Inn.

Not surprisingly, police say, the man was intoxicated.