The Fernando Poniente Show

Yea Funny .
Robert Spencer says let us not rush in to judgment. He could be hunting Squirrels.

Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State University, was
allegedly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and dressed in black clothing with
camouflage paint covering his face when he was arrested Saturday in Hemlock
Park.
According to police, Zorkot was observed attempting to leave the park
in a black SUV after officers had received reports of a man carrying a rifle in
the area. He was placed under arrest and is scheduled to undergo a preliminary
examination at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 in 19th District Court.

Must be nice to show for your trial on a Helicopter!
According to Screen name Football mom

I work near the court house and I have been astounded each day when the
helicopter shows up. Jeffs has the special honors of being brought to and from
the court house each day by helicopter!!! There is one, sometimes two, police
trucks blocking off Diagonal next to the court house everyday, cops up on the
hill everyday and you can not even park in front of the court house during the
day!! In the 10 years I have lived in Utah I have never seen anyone else being
given such treatment. A friend said that maybe it is all because maybe the
officials think someone will try to kill Jeffs! I am sorry but we have tried
murders and they never got such treatment!! One of the news channels, they are
all in town, was even making fun of the daily “special ride” for Jeffs to
court!!! Washington County should be ashamed of themselves for all of our tax
dollars they are waisting!!!! Hope someone will publish a final cost, and who
made these decisions, to tax payers when this is trial is all over. If it these
costly decisions were made by a elected official, chief of police or Judge
Shumate ?, then I hope people will think of the waisted money spent on a
criminal, who is not even a murderer, and vote that official out of office!!!!!!
If I was in jail and had to go to court then you can bet I too would be
insisting on having a helicopter take me to and from!! What is good for one
criminal should be good for all people in jail.

And show must go on , its Down to 28 Jurors

ST. GEORGE - After three days of questioning potential jurors, 28 people have
been found to sit in the jury pool in the case against Warren Steed Jeffs.
Beginning today at 9 a.m., the final jury selection will begin in 5th
District Court to find eight jurors and four alternates.

It has begun indeed!!

On Friday, his trial began with a pool of 300 prospective jurors from
Washington County, Utah, appearing in Fifth District Court to fill out a
questionnaire screening them for bias or hardship.
One of the main topics in
the 11-page questionnaire, which prosecutors and defense lawyers will use to
help narrow the pool to the eight jurors who will decide Jeffs’ fate, addressed
the prospective panelists’ familiarity with the FLDS, a group that broke from
the mainstream Latter-Day Saints, or Mormons, more than a century ago over the
issue of polygamy.

Will start with hugo Chavez’s brother, apparently Hugo’s Brother was accused of overcharged in Soccer Stadium.

Opposition Un Nuevo Tiempo party leader Enrique Ochoa Antich filed with the
Attorney General Office a complaint that President Hugo Chávez’ brother Adeliz
Chávez was involved in a USD 23 million overcharge during the construction of
soccer stadium La Carolina, in their home state of Barinas. The sports venue was
built without bidding, based on the allegation that the work needed to be
completed urgently.
Ochoa Antich reminded that President Chávez’ father and
governor of Barinas state, Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, was designated honorary
chair of the local organizing committee of soccer tournament Copa América 2007,
held in Venezuela last June-July. “In a clear signal of local nepotism,” he
named Adeliz Chávez as the committee’s executive vice-president.
“The
contract was awarded directly to firm Procica. The contract was originally
estimated at USD 37.2 million, but works eventually amounted to USD 60.5
million,” Ochoa Antich argued.

Then We all know that Chavez offers to FARC was rejected.

The Colombian government has rejected a proposal by Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez to travel to Colombia to meet the leader of the Farc rebel group.

Now, Chavez somehow link to the Pipeline Bombimg in Veracruz Mexico.
Hotair.com has the details.

The subversive group, the Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR), that claimed
responsibility yesterday the attacks against six gas pipelines of state-owned
Mexican Petroleum (PEMEX), is financed by the government of Hugo Chavez,
according to a press report based on the Mexican intelligence service.

SoCal offers Youtube Class?
No way.

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Here’s a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.
Pitzer College this fall began offering what may be the first course about the video-sharing site. About 35 students meet in a classroom but work mostly online, where they view YouTube content and post their comments.

Class lessons also are posted and students are encouraged to post videos. One class member, for instance, posted a 1:36-minute video of himself juggling.

Alexandra Juhasz, a media studies professor at the liberal arts college, said she was “underwhelmed” by the content on YouTube but set up the course, “Learning from YouTube,” to explore the role of the popular site.

Class members control most of the class content and YouTube watchers from around the world are encouraged to comment, Juhasz said.

She hopes the course will raise serious issues about YouTube, such as the role of “corporate-sponsored democratic media expression.”

YouTube is “a phenomenon that should be studied,” student Darren Grose said. “You can learn a lot about American culture and just Internet culture in general.”

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Watch and Learn

Filipino? nope
Answer is Married couples.

For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of the state’s adults
are single or separated, according to new federal data.
As recently as the
2000 Census, about 52 percent of Californians 15 or older were married. But 2006
population data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau says that share of
married Californians has slipped to 48.5 percent this decade as the share of
adults who have never wed has grown.
From the state’s high cost of housing
for families, to an increase in opportunities for women, to something as
fundamental as our image of love - there is no shortage of reasons to explain
the decline.
Californians are waiting longer than ever - and longer than
people in many other states - to get married, or they’re just skipping it
altogether. About three in 10 women in California have never married, a
percentage topped by only three other states, according to the new census data.
An even higher percentage of men - 38 percent - have never married.
“It by
no means indicates that marriage is dead, but I think it’s a dramatic way of
demonstrating that the past 25 years, marriage has gradually ceased to be the
main institution that organizes people’s lives,” said Stephanie Coontz, author
of the 2005 book “Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love
Conquered Marriage.”

I say they’re becoming extinct.

Shocka!! Cynthia Mckinney Op’ted out .
you can find her letter here. and here

As I’m sure you know, I have been approached by many within the Green Party
over the preceeding year who have asked that I consider seeking the nomination
of the Green Party of the United States as its candidate for President of the
United States. In 2003 I was similiarly approached about my potential interest
in the 2004 race.
I have seriously weighed the options, travelled extensively
holding first private, then more public events with Greens over the preceding
year, exploring such a possibility with Greens in at least a dozen state
parties, meeting with the chair of your Presidential Campaign Support Committee,
with the members of your Steering Committee and speaking at, and entertaining
questions from the Party’s Annual Meeting in Reading Pennsylvania this past
July. Since the Reading meeting, I have also begun to help Green candidates
raise money for their campaigns.
For months I have answered questions about
my intentions for this race in 2008 by saying that while I am not yet in,
neither am I out of this race.
After careful consideration about the
political conditions facing our nation, the level of development within the
Party, my own readiness to take on such a daunting task and my own long
postponed personal priorities, I write to inform the Party that I must at this
time withdraw my name from consideration for the Party’s 2008 Presidential
Nominating contest.
I remain committed to our collective work of transforming
our nation and to mobilizing peace loving Americans, justice seeking activists
and others disfranchised by the powers which currently control our nation toward
that end.
Sincerely yours,Cynthia McKinney

Slow.

ARIZONA-UTAH BORDER (CNN) — After 115 days on the FBI’s most-wanted list and a year in solitary confinement in a jail called Purgatory, the leader of the nation’s largest polygamist sect is going on trial in St. George, Utah.

Warren Steed Jeffs, 51, is the President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known as the FLDS. He stands accused of being an accomplice to rape. The trial is in its fourth day of jury selection.

The charges stem from Jeffs’ alleged practice of arranging marriages between adult male followers and underage brides. read it on CNN

like I said it’s SLow.

According to this Blog he is.

Presidential Candidate Fred D. Thompson supposedly helped represent Libyan Terror Suspects.
Via NYTimes.com

A little over three years after Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie,
Scotland, Fred
D. Thompson provided advice to a colleague about one of his law firm’s new
clients: The man representing the two Libyan intelligence officials charged in
the terrorist bombing.

The colleague, John Culver, a partner at the Washington firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn began advising the two suspects’ Libyan lawyer in February 1992. Mr. Thompson, according to a memorandum from that era written by his secretary, held “discussions with Culver re: Libya” that same month.

He’s in trouble if it is true.

I suppose this is worth blogging.
Philippine shares fell Monday, tracking the fall on Wall Street at the end of last week, with some investors worried about the coming verdict in the deposed president’s plunder trial.

The market’s direction this week will depend on U.S. stocks, and to a
lesser extent on political concerns related to Wednesday’s verdict in ousted
President Joseph Estrada’s 6-year-old plunder case, said Astro del Castillo,
managing director of First Grade Holdings.
“It’s more of Wall Street than the
Estrada factor,” said del Castillo. Some investors are worried a guilty verdict
may spark unrest by Estrada supporters, he said.