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Ever wonder where to find crack, meth, speed, dope? Well we started the “Crack Map” for that specific reason. Got tired of statistics and wonder how fast the crack map will fill up with entries around the world. Click here to go to the crack map and add your entry. Please do not add specific addresses, but rather an area, within a house or two is fine. And let’s see if the war on meth is all it’s cracked up to be.

According to Bush anyone can now make their own laws if they can get to the top of the heap as President. Take the current laws that Bush has been changing since he was in office as an example:

Torture: The Army’s field manual specifically prohibits waterboarding as torture, and under the Geneva convention torture is prohibited. The House of Representatives this week approved a bill that would outlaw its use by the CIA. The bill’s fate is unclear in the Senate and President Bush has threatened to veto it if it is passed.

Why would our Senate need to vote in a bill that establishes an already in effect agreed upon Convention? Perhaps to send a message to the President that he is violating a law? Meanwhile Bush has made his own laws saying that if the President approves of it, waterboarding, and torture are allowed.

Phone Taps: Bush belives that he can ignore wiretap laws and go ahead and spy upon all of us, for whatever reason, just in case we might be involved in terrorist acts. Usually you need to go to the Court and have them look at the evidence and then begin the wiretapping. But in this case, no more.

So many laws and so called “signing statements” have been in the news lately that it’s baffeling for most people to understand, and therefore easy to spin, but the bottom line is that the country has laws for a reason and Bush considers executive power over all of them. This is akin to the Nixon years when Nixon and his team of men beleived that erasing tapes covering up a robbery was okay. Well, it turns out that this wasn’t so.

Yes we know there is a move to impeach Bush and it hasn’t really gotten much steam. Time to take another look.

When outsourcing became a new trend in business, IBM jumped right on the bandwagon.  In 2005 they closed Sweden offices , 90 people were off in London when they closed offices there. In the United States IBM employs about 125,000 people out of a whopping 355,766. Seemingly no longer a US company but an “international” company, IBM has  parts made in China, and  a labor force outsourced to India.

Interestingly, the United States boundaries have been slowly eroding and losing it’s steam as so many jobs are outsourced, as so many  companies seek to find cheaper labor and corporate greed simply does not pay for American workers. Between the outsourcing and the incoming immigrant hiring,  how much further can we really go before we blur the lines entirely and there is no “American” workforce.

A car chase  ended in a Deputy having a heart attack because of stress. While he was suffering the heart attack one of the passengers of the vehicle, that was handcuffed tried to help him, but unfortunately he died. Meanwhile. Deputies charged the driver with involuntary manslaughter after consulting with prosecutors because the chase led to the stress that caused the Deputy’s heart attack.

While this seems par for the course, maybe in South Carolina, it begs the question; if a Deputy suffers a heart attack while discharging his duties of booking a thief, is the thief liable for the medical situation of that Deputy?