H O C K E Y D I N O

All,
Contact Your Senator About The Immigration Bill Today!

Tuesday morning the Senate will discuss the Immigration bill. Should 16 senators vote for cloture, then only 3/5 of the vote would be needed and the bill would pass. If they vote for cloture and then turn around and vote against the bill, that means nothing. In fact, it's an insult, because it means that they think their constituents are too stupid to understand that the cloture vote is where this bill will be stopped -- if it's going to be stopped at all.

Contact your senator asap and tell them to not vote for cloture and to not support the immigration bill.

This is not a republican or democrat issue. This is certain members of the senate thinking you are too stupid to know what is
good for you. Poll after poll overwhelmingly says that this is not what the American people want, yet a few Senators can by their will change that very easily, and it looks like they will.

One senator who gets one phone call, email, or fax that breaks the camel's back could be the difference. And the stakes could not be higher

These senators are ready to throw trillions in tax dollars away, they're going to give tens of thousands of criminals a permanent z visa that will allow them to stay in this country for life and they're going to leave the borders wide open for another 9/11 if this bill goes through. It is a vote on whether we're going to have a string of amnesties, whether we're going to secure the borders or not, and whether your children's futures are going to be thrown away to line the pockets of corrupt businessmen. These senators are insulting the tons of people wanting to get in legally and to those that have become citizens legally.

You can email them here and tell them to not vote for cloture and to not support the bill: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

For Michigan: Levin and Stabusnow

Thanks,

HockeyDino


P.S. it's not the heat, it's the humidity!

The Immigration Debate: Globalists vs. Nationalists
Published on Sunday, June 17, 2007.

The current Senate Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty bill for 12 to 20 million illegal aliens is little more than an attempt to reward mass criminality. The provision in the bill for enhanced border security is "a spoonful of enforcement to make the amnesty go down." No one is surprised by Sen. Kennedy's commitment to amnesty.

The important question is: Why would the president of the United States and a number of leading Republicans in the Congress be so willing to stomp all over the conservatives and tear the Republican Party apart in their rush to be the architects of this so-called "Grand Immigration Compromise?" The answer lies in the ongoing fight between corporate America and America's middle class workers. This battle can also be characterized as a fight between those whose priority is globalization (the globalists) versus those whose priority is American sovereignty (the nationalists).

The political action committees (PACs) of America's largest companies, especially the multi-nationals, provide the bulk of the money to both political parties and particularly to the campaigns of members of Congress. The No. 1 priority of big business today is to have an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor and to avoid penalties for hiring illegal aliens in violation of current U.S. law.
The next most important (and related) priority of big business is to enable its labor force to move just as freely across national boundaries as trade and capital do. In concert with America's political and economic elite, big business wants a world without borders. Corporate America's fight to legalize America's 12 to 20 million illegal aliens is directly related to its desire to unify Canada, the U.S., and Mexico into a North American Union similar to the European Union. The ultimate goal is global governance and the withering away of national sovereignty. With the vastly lower cost of labor inherent in both of these big business priorities, corporate profits will soar, at least in the short term.

America's workers strongly opposed NAFTA and China's Permanent Most Favored Nation status. Both were promoted by corporate America particularly the multi-nationals. A trade surplus with Mexico at the time NAFTA was enacted has turned into a $1 billion per week trade deficit. The Permanent Most Favored Trade status for China enacted in 2000 has resulted in a $1 billion per day trade deficit! Even the most conservative estimates indicate a loss of at least 6 million American manufacturing jobs from these two pieces of legislation. These corporations in the words of Pat Buchanan, "Want to be rid of their American workers, but keep their American consumers."

America's current political leadership, in crafting the "Immigration Grand Compromise" currently in the Senate in return for campaign contributions from corporate America PAC, has exposed itself as a facilitator in the effort to sell America's middle class down the river. It's up to the people to rise up and stop it.

Ok well I don't, but John Edwards does!

This is from a friend of mine Michael Arturo who wrote me back, after I posted my disgust at the death of the NHL. Michael is a Hollywood actor and has appeared in many films and TV. Check out his site , you can see some of his movies there too.


In the wake of a Stanley Cup playoffs that broke records for irrelevance and low ratings, with empty seats in both new and established markets, coming off the infamous "Preakness Game" that highlighted the worst TV package in sports, the worst commissioner in sports and the lingering hangover from two suicidal lockouts, what does the NHL think is the answer?

Expansion.

If this wasn't the NHL, we'd think it was a joke. But as the Sports Business Journal reported, the league is moving toward adding a 31st and 32nd franchise in those noted hockey hotbeds of Las Vegas and Kansas City.

Yes, that ought to do it.

Hey, instead of trying to fix the apathy in your current markets, why not add new ones. Las Vegas may be good news for Janet Gretzky and Rick Tocchet, but since the NHL can't beat Law & Order reruns, what chance does it have against The Strip?

Look, if the league wants to further strangle itself with expansion, why not Chicago? It hasn't had a team since Bill Wirtz disbanded the Blackhawks in the mid-1990s.

Only the NHL could even dream this stuff up. The league needs to contract, not expand. It needs to improve the product, not disperse the talent, dilute rivalries and provide another slap at the game's tradition.

No offense to Vegas and KC, but we've seen this act before. The few million in expansion fees isn't worth adding a couple more cities that aren't all that interested in hockey, save the core of 10-15,000 fans who will still be paying attention once the novelty wears off.

As for Commissioner Gary Bettman, well, he hasn't overseen many good ideas in his first 15 years on the job. At this point our only hope is that his various disasters in leadership were part of a secret 16-year plan and good things are about to happen.

A past expansion under his watch – slogan: "If you've got two Winn Dixies, welcome to the NHL" – gave us the Nashville Predators. This year Nashville, despite having an exciting, hard-hitting and winning team, violated its lease by failing to draw an average of 14,000 fans. The local government may have to buy the remaining tickets next year, a tremendously prudent use of tax money.

Who among us isn't shocked, just shocked, to find out that a small market, football mad Southern city wasn't all that interested in an NHL team after all? Yep, no one could have seen that one coming.

Nashville may get moved to the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario. The punch line isn't that Ontario has a Kitchener-Waterloo region. It's that at this point, it's a pretty good option.

That's how low this league is.

At least people actually like hockey in Ontario. They just won the Stanley Cup in Anaheim, but you could walk two blocks from the arena and not know the NHL was in town. As for local TV ratings, if they had staged a Zamboni jacking, complete with low-speed police pursuit through the streets of Irvine, it'd have drawn 10 times the ratings.

This is being driven by the league's Board of Governors (owners) who could care less about the long-term health of the league as long as they get guaranteed profit and a tax boondoggle.

Forget the best interests of the NHL; the owners want to expand so they can execute a quick money grab.

As Eric Duhatschek points out in Canada's Globe and Mail, the rumored expansion fee is $150 million per franchise and the owners don't have to share that revenue with the players.

This sounds like a lot, but per owner it is only about $10 million before taxes. For the mega rich – some of these guys are billionaires – that's nothing. Besides, rampant expansion to small and non-traditional markets is what forced the league to have to fight for the salary cap that shut down the entire 2004-05 season and helped create this mess. The expansion money was Fool's Gold then. It's no different now.

The inherent problem is the NHL is owned and run by too many people with no respect for the game or the fans.

Not to turn this into one of those sappy baseball documentaries (although maybe that's what we need) but to so many fans hockey remains an emotional experience: the memories and history, the old days with your dad, the new ones with your kids, the shared joy of victories, the thrill of great performers and the chills of a sport where the athletes literally walk on water.

The NHL has forced so many of those fans to voice their anger by staying away, not buying, not watching, not caring. Unfortunately, rather than get this league to change course it's emboldened them to bleed the sport dry.

Fans are disillusioned, disappointed and disenfranchised. And what else would they be at this point? The game is great. The league stinks. We want our old NHL back; fewer teams not more, owners that want to win, not bilk taxpayers, real television coverage, not something that's on before bull riding.

If there are any owners who do still care, any who want to save this league before it is truly too late, they need to stand up today, beat back the expansion crowd, fire the failed commissioner and buy out the deadbeat owners so they close up the dead end franchises.
We don't need Vegas. We don't need Kansas City. We need our league back.We don't need Vegas.

copyright 2007 www.hockeydino.com

Politicans with no money or financial war chests in the millions usually have no change. I don't care, becasuse I will vote on principal, not popularity.

Why I'm supporting Ron Paul.

He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
He was against taking 600 million from funding the war in Afghanastan to fund operations in Iraq.
Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress.
He believes in the principles of the Constitution
He believes in a strong national defense and military
He questions why we are building large bases in Iraq, yet can take care of our wounder soldiers at Walter Reed?
He wants to abolish the IRS.

The clowns and big business puppets (Clinton, Obama, McCain, Romney, and Guiliani) will raise your taxes, take your guns, take your rights, and sell you down the river to line their political pockets. Enough is enough.

With the Cups Winning the Stanley Cup...the NHL has died. Strike 3.

Lighting, Hurricanes, Ducks - last 3 Cup Champions

how embarrassing to have the MIGHTY DUCKS on the Stanley Cup.

So long NHL...alas, I hardly knew ya.