Arabs to control 21 ports & Coast Guard

While drug addict Rush Limbaugh claims that the United Arab Emirates are our friends and he endorses their control of the 21 U.S. Ports, the fact is that when the Arabs control those ports they also control the security. No more profiling of Arabs.

The UAE will also control the Coast Guard at each port, and the UAE will have access to the Coast Guard's emergency procedures, and other important information. Since the UAE will control the ports, they will also control the security of each port.

You can imagine that they will probably hire Arabs to do most of these jobs, if not all of the jobs. After all, an Arab company that is run by Arabs will probably hire or promote Arabs to all of the top positions at every port. You can bet that the UAE won't be using any Jews for important jobs.

All it takes is one terrorist infiltrating the management and/or security system of the UAE or any of the individual ports and they can do anything they want. They can easily bring weapons and terrorists into the U.S. on designated ships.

Here is an excerpt from UPI: "The Marine Transportation Security Act of 2002 requires vessels and port facilities to conduct vulnerability assessments and develop security plans including passenger, vehicle and baggage screening procedures; security patrols; establishing restricted areas; personnel identification procedures; access control measures; and/or installation of surveillance equipment.

Under the same law, port facility operators may have access to Coast Guard security incident response plans -- that is, they would know how the Coast Guard plans to counter and respond to terrorist attacks."

Catholic Church rapes children more than one way

An advocacy group criticized the Archdiocese of Miami, saying it is blaming a young man for an alleged rape by a priest in its response to a lawsuit.

A group for survivors of assaults by priests urged the Archdiocese of Miami on Thursday to stop blaming a young man for his alleged rape by the Rev. Neil Doherty -- a crime the man claims happened when he was a child.

Six members of the group tried to hand-deliver a letter to Archbishop John Favalora blasting the archdiocese's legal response to a civil lawsuit filed by the young man that suggested one possible defense could be that the alleged victim's ''own negligence'' caused the abuse. The protesters were turned away by security guards who monitored closed gates around the archdiocese's headquarters on Biscayne Boulevard in Miami Shores. " (end of excerpt)

What happened to the Catholic Church? Did child molestors become the majority of the Cardinals? When all these kids were getting molested (some at least as far back as the 1930s) the Church's Bishops, Cardinals, etc. should have been the first ones contacting the Police and Law Enforcement and demanding that all pedophile priests be investigated and arrested.

Instead, the evidence clearly shows that time after time, year after year, in numerous different parts of the USA, the Church has protected the child molestors. Any settlement with the Church has required silence by the molested victims. The Church has never accepted responsibility for its criminal actions. The Church has at all times put its billions of dollars into hiring lawyers and getting politicians to help them silence the victims.

Why is the Catholic Church so evil? Why does it act in a manner that allows sin and evil to continue to be done to children? Where are the Christians in the Catholic Church? (the excerpt of the story was by Lisa Arthur, The Miami Herald)

Sleazy Politician Joe Martinez gets white-washed by pals

Another scumbag Miami politician uses his power to get special favors. This kind of thing used to be called influence peddling, but here in Miami no politician is ever arrested or convicted for any corruption. The FBI is too busy and local law enforcement is too corrupt.

(excerpt from the Miami Herald story by Naomi Schwartz and Matthew Haggment:) The Miami Herald had calculated that the commission chairman got a $4,000 to $6,000 break on the land's price and in an interview last year, developer Carlos ''Charlie'' Martinez did not dispute those figures. Still, Charlie Martinez, whose family owns Caribe Homes, had said the sale was still a good deal for his company.

Joe Martinez is not related to Charlie Martinez.
The property, which was not marketed to the public, was one of a handful of larger lots in the 431-lot development.
Joe Martinez put $1,000 down on the land, or just over 1 percent of its $85,000 cost, signed no contract and paid the remainder more than 18 months later -- a delay that Charlie Martinez attributed to the time it took to install water and sewer lines on the property.

The Miami Herald compared the commissioner's cost, roughly $8 per square foot, with nine other built-out lots in the subdivision that had average land costs of about $14.55 a square foot by the time the commissioner closed. Those lots were sold by both Caribe and Lennar Homes, another major housing developer.
Though The Miami Herald consulted real estate experts in drawing its comparisons, Mazzella said his office had accepted Charlie Martinez's comparisons without consulting any other experts.

''He basically made the calculations as to the value of that property and asserted that it was a fair price based upon the size of it,'' Mazzella said. In addition to reviewing the land purchase, Mazzella's staff also checked the contractors building Martinez's 5,300 square-foot house. It found that none currently had any county contracts.

However, the report notes that the commissioner is getting some free services from longtime friends. This includes Juan Buade of Buade Construction, a company that is constructing the foundation and shell of the new house for free. Buade has done business with the county in the past and received his last payment in December 2001 for work on a county park, the report said.

The report says that Jorge Guerra Sr., the head of Design Drywall Inc., has acted as the project's general contractor and supplied his services -- lining up subcontractors, obtaining quotes, negotiating agreements and scheduling inspections -- for free.

WORK WAS `A FAVOR'

Guerra told the inspector general that he has known Joe Martinez for 15 years and helped him get elected to the commission. His work on the house is ''a favor for a personal friend'' Guerra told the inspector general.

Guerra's son Jorge Guerra Jr., a current Latin Builders Association board member who helps Design Drywall develop new business according to the association's website, is also providing some of the services. He signed the master permit on the company's behalf as well as another agreement with the commissioner to oversee the project. He is also helping to oversee the construction of the commissioner's home, the report said.

Womanizer Modesto Maidique wants a BIG PAYOFF

This lowlife who shielded, befriended, and employed Cuban spies wants nearly a million dollars in order to go away from his job in the State University system. The Maidique is 65 years old, instead of retiring with dignity, he wants to steal more money from the public University system. Once again, the taxpayers get fleeced by a well-connected, unethical slimeball.

(excerpt from Miami Herald story) FIU's leader wants perks if he quits. Florida International University President Modesto Maidique requested a bonus and a lucrative retirement package in his next contract.
BY NOAH BIERMAN, The Miami Herald
Florida International University President Modesto Maidique is asking for a $250,000 bonus in his new contract and a slew of perks in case he resigns.


His proposed contract would expire July 31, 2008. But it would also allow him to resign before that and still reap the $250,000 bonus ``in recognition of his 20 years of faithful, dedicated and exemplary service.'' It would also grant him a year-long sabbatical after stepping down at his current salary of $326,340.

Or he could forgo the sabbatical, take a lump-sum payout and retire. After a sabbatical, he could return to FIU as a professor at his present salary, which would make him the highest-paid, full-time professor by more than $100,000.

But the past year has been tough -- with fallout from a federal grant investigation that forced the school to return $11.5 million, a faculty senate resolution expressing ''grave concerns'' with his leadership, a divorce and, most recently, criminal spy charges against two close friends who work at the university.

His current contract, signed in 2002, brought his salary up to $285,000 in the first full year. ''It is only in the past three or four years that I have been paid even close to competitively,'' Maidique said.

''They may be a large enterprise but that doesn't mean they should run like a for-profit business,'' said John Curtis, director of research for the American Association of University Professors.