An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Morning Coffee 05/24/08 – Afternoon Edition Short Cup
Tennessee says illegal immigrants can marry
For the first time in a decade, immigration status won’t stop couples from obtaining marriage licenses in Davidson County and marrying anywhere in Tennessee. Counties across the state could follow suit depending on the outcome of the Nashville case that sparked the policy change.
Davidson County Clerk John Arriola switched direction Thursday after a state attorney general’s opinion sided with a couple who sued him for refusing to issue a marriage license based on the prospective groom’s lack of documents. Since at least 1998, county clerks in Tennessee asked for a Social Security card, or, failing in that, a valid passport and visa.
Well excuse for asking the obvious, but why don’t they just call ICE when they come across someone who can’t produce proof they are a US citizen?
N.Y. Planning Special Ambulance To Recover Organs
In the hope of saving the lives of more people waiting for transplants, New York City is working on a plan to deploy a special ambulance to collect the bodies of people who have died suddenly from heart attacks, accidents and other emergencies and try to preserve their organs.
I sure hope they don’t bring this idea to Tennessee!
Police send Seals $2,200 bill for gas stunt
A Democratic congressional candidate who staged a campaign stunt to highlight the high cost of fuel found out Friday that the tab for police traffic control is more than twice as much.
The Lincolnshire Police Department sent a $2,200 bill to 10th Congressional District candidate Dan Seals, who on Thursday offered motorists the chance to purchase gas for $1.85 a gallon—the price of fuel when Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk won his first election to Congress in 2000.
Perhaps he should have informed the police he was going to do this BEFORE he did it?
Jewish allies of the Rev. John Hagee rushed to his defense yesterday to say the Texas evangelist is not anti-Semitic despite Sen. John McCain campaign’s repudiation Thursday of the evangelist’s endorsement.
“John Hagee is one of the Jewish people’s best friends,” Los Angeles talk show host Dennis Prager said on the air yesterday morning. “Identifying John Hagee with anti-Semitism would be like identifying Raoul Wallenberg, the great Swede who saved thousands of Jews in the Holocaust, with anti-Semitism.”
Hagee is probably more pro-Israel than many Florida Jews. (Yeah, go ahead, tell me I’m being offensive.) McFeingold may have lost a good chunk of REAL evangelicals when he denounced both Hagee and Paisley.
Syria Rejects Israel’s Call to Cut Ties With Iran, Arab Militant Groups
Syria rejected Israel’s demand that Damascus cut its ties with Iran and Arab militant groups as a condition for a peace agreement, a state newspaper said Saturday.
The announcement comes even as Syrian ally Hamas, a sworn foe of the Jewish state, cast doubt on the Israeli government’s ability to even deliver on a peace agreement due to the weakness of its prime minister.
Syria is Iran’s biggest fan, who is a HUGE fan of terrorists. So, why would they cut ties with their best buds? They all have one thing in common….the destruction of Israel. So, there’s a big DUH for ya!
“It’s a little bit of a balancing act and I think, you know, in the case of Sri Lanka, obviously a place where there have been human-rights problems, there have been religious freedom issues. But then you look at a country like Pakistan where there have been some of the same issues and you wonder how one gets left off [the Council] and the other one gets put on,” Nettleton points out.
According to Nettleton, this Council will be closely watched by the media to determine whether they can turn their talk into action.
Which media? The one who believes the Useless Numnuts are the answer to the world’s problems? Or the one that actually reports on their obvious uselessness and major bias, but doesn’t get heard?
Energy fears looming, new survivalists prepare
Convinced the planet’s oil supply is dwindling and the world’s economies are heading for a crash, some people around the country are moving onto homesteads, learning to live off their land, conserving fuel and, in some cases, stocking up on guns they expect to use to defend themselves and their supplies from desperate crowds of people who didn’t prepare.
Y’know, it’s not a bad idea to learn how to become self reliant, and to defend yourself against those who believe the gubmint is the answer! 
