Trip to Edmonton Canada in pictures................

I just got back from vacation in Canada, i thought it was going to be boring and cold up north, but it was fun, i really had a good time........

Pirate Ship inside the mall, that was awesome..........

The indoor beach inside West Edmonton mall

I really love the city of Edmonton, it was clean and beautiful

Edmonton skyline in the background

Streets in downtown Edmonton

Enough is enough..................

If ever there was a time for U.S authorities to finally think about closing the southern border with Mexico now would be that time.
Execution style murders, violent home invasions, and a spiraling kidnap rate in Phoenix -- where police reported an average of one abduction a day last year linked to Mexican crime are becoming an everyday affair for residents who live in States that share common border with Mexico.
In southern California, police have investigated cases of Americans abducted by armed groups tied to the Tijuana drug trade. One involved a businesswoman and her teenage daughter snatched in San Diego last year and held to ransom south of the border.

In south Texas, a live hand grenade traced back to a Mexican cartel stash was tossed onto the pool table of a bar frequented by off-duty police officers in January. The pin was left in it and the assailant fled.

This is not a Democrat or a Republican issue, this is about homeland security and keeping our citizens safe.
As a sign of how out of control things have become,The State Department is renewing a travel advisory warning Americans about violence in Mexico, especially along the U.S. border, the U.S.
But there's even more evidence the cartels are operating with near impunity as they wage bloody battle for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the U.S.
Last year ended with a grisly flourish: 12 soldiers were found decapitated with this note: "For every one of us you kill, we'll kill 10.

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The cartel carnage and brutality are escalating so rapidly - and the authorities are so besieged - that some U.S. analysts are warning that Mexico is in danger of collapse, leaving a lawless, failed state right across the southern U.S. border.

A recent Pentagon report warned that if trends continue into the next decade, the U.S. must be on alert for the possible "rapid and sudden collapse" of Mexico.
It is time to shut the border, place national guards on it and to seriously start thinking about that fence that we have been talking about building for so long.

How creepy is this...............

An Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas who look so much like Our President have become somewhat of an instant celebrity in his home Country.

A combination photo shows U.S. president Barack Obama (L), taken January 17, 2009 as he speaks during a ceremony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Indonesian photographer Ilham Anas, taken January 20, 2009 in Jakarta. Anas, 34, who from some angles bears a resemblance to the new U.S. president, shot to fame in Jakarta after Obama, 47, won the election in November.

Michael Steele is the new RNC Chairman........

The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday.

Steele won in the sixth ballot, with 91 votes out of a possible 168.

He is viewed as the most moderate of the five candidates who stood for the position.

In his brief acceptance speech, the former lieutenant governor of the US state of Maryland said he was determined to revitalise the party.

"We're going to bring this party to every corner, every board room, every neighborhood, every community," he said.

"And we're going to say to friend and foe alike, we want you to be a part of us, we want you to work with us.

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After a humiliating defeat last fall in which they lost both the White House and Congress, it was about time in my opinion, they started opening up the party to more minorities.

Steele is a good man, and the RNC made a good choice tonight.

Viginity for sale .........

Natalie Dylan

Oh my God, Have you heard this story of a 22 year old San Diego woman who is selling her virginity to the highest bidder? Natalie Dylan not her real name, said that if the offers become deals she would not go through with the auction of her virginity - provided she earned $1.54 million ($US1m) from the deals.

More than 10,000 men have pledged more than $5 million online to claim Natalie's virginity, with an Australian businessman leading the bidding. The auction is being run on a Nevada brothel website.
Oh My GOD! IS THIS WHAT OUR SOCIETY HAS BEEN REDUCED TO? God help us all.

Assessing the Bush Legacy.........

Yesterday i watched with utter disgust people booing President Bush as he was leaving Washington for Texas during Obama's Inauguration. I mean really even if you did not like the man or his policies, we should respect the fact that he was one of our Presidents and we should send him home with all the respect a President deserves.
Now that George W. Bush has left the White House, and his administration has officially ended, What his legacy will be in the United States and the world at large as he leaves office, is still been debated by so called political pundits .
It is true, he made some colossal mistakes at home and abroad on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq . It is also true his relations with America's allies, especially in Europe, have been abysmal. But outside of the Middle East and Europe, Bush has been successful, especially in Asia and Africa.



For years, America has given lip service to African disease and poverty. But Bush reversed course, and today millions of Africans receive free medicine for AIDs, TB and Malaria. Half of all African food aid comes from the US. The Millenium Challenge, a very effective program in which rich countries ban together to foster economic development in poor countries, was created by Bush.
When President Clinton had a chance to save thousands of people in Rwanda civil crisis during the 90s, he refused to get involve, calling it an African Problem, and because of America and the world's inaction almost a million people die in the Rwanda Genocide.
Bush on the other hand got involved in Africa like no other president before him, he demanded that Liberian Tyrant Charles Taylor leaves office and send U.S soldiers to help stabilized the country, in the process ending almost 2 decades of civil war that left the country in a state of total ruin.
He called Sudan's military actions in Darfur, Genocide when most African and European countries refused to call it so.
Most Americans especially on the far left have been hard in my opinion of the President, some insulting and calling him the worst president ever, but they fail to understand that the President was commander in chief in extraordinary times and he made decisions under extraordinary circumstances, to keep the homeland safe. for that alone i am thankful for his presidency.
being a Stanch Democrat as i am,i really hated the policies of his administration, but as time went by, i started to understand that in order to fight terrorism and keep the Homeland safe, we had to fight those wars, i started to look at and admire the President in a whole new light.
Whatever his critics in the Liberal media say, President Bush, unlike any other U.S. Presidents, change dramatically the way the United States dealt with radicals who were bent on killing Americans, and the way the U.S did business in poor countries around the world.
The media might be hard on his legacy now, but in time history will be more gentle on his presidency, and we as Americans will look back and see how we not only disrespected a good and caring man who loves his country, but also how unfairly we treated him to the end.
Farewell Mr President not only were a great friend of Africa, but you did all you could to keep America safe.
may God bless you and your family as you end this chapter of your life and begin a new one.

A new era begins......

Though i did not vote or supported him when he ran for the Presidency, i still wish the new President well as a new chapter begins in our Nation history. we have a long road ahead of us, God Bless this Great Country of ours, and God Bless the President.......