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To: KLP who wrote (184891)	4/10/2006 10:03:24 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Speaking of "hiding" things in the desert.....Egypt is STILL finding long ago tombs hidden in the desert after 3-6,000 years of being "buried"..... Not sure I caught that particular program.. But I sure love watching that kind of stuff. That's one of the benefits of trading for a living.. Lots of time to watch interesting programs while the market does it's thing. AMAZING! It's rather like x-rays as viewed from the air...outlines of huge tombs are seen ... Yeah.. that Ground Penetrating Radar is pretty fascinating... I know we used it while in Iraq, but it wasn't really my area of expertise so I didn't see many of the products produced from it (and probably wouldn't be able to talk about it anyway.. ;0) I've really been interested in how they've been trying to use GPR to give a view of old river beds and topography of the Sahara. Reason being that there are a few folks who have a theory that the original Sphinx might be up to 15,000 years old, dating back to a time when the Sahara wasn't covered with sand, but was a Savannah plain with considerable rainfall and waterways: >i>The Sahara is the driest place on earth right now, but SIR-A was able to penetrate the sand and reveal an ancient landscape below that, amazingly, had been carved by running water. "The Sahara once looked like the landscape of Europe," El-Baz reported, "with rivers, lakes, mountains and valleys." The banks of the old rivers beds, dubbed "radar rivers" by researchers, turned out to be excellent sites for archaeological excavation, yielding a bevy of Paleolithic tools and artifacts. pbs.org egypt-tehuti.org Hawk

To: KLP who wrote (184891)	4/10/2006 11:02:35 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 281500

Here are the lefties at work ....................................................... Check out what the Democrats are passing out at Illegal Immigrant Protests wizbang ^ wizbangblog.com The fact that the Dems are recruiting at these protests isn't a surprise. It fits into their big picture of race and politics (which is why the flyer's visual puts Texas and Mexico together). The Democrats classify people based upon race and then work to corner the racial voting collectives. At this point, the white vote is already split down the middle, half voting Democrat, half Republican. The Dems have cornered the black voting collective with over 90% voting Democratic. If Democrats manage to corner Hispanic vote like they have cornered the black vote, Republicans won't win the White House for a very long time. This is the Democrats' dream, so they are trying very hard to collectivize the Hispanic community by turning the immigration issue into another civil rights issue. Immigrants who come from south of the border usually don't see themselves as a part of a collective. They tend to be more individual-minded, which works to the Republicans' benefit. However, these rallies and protests are helping reshape how these immigrants view themselves. As Power Line points out, one of the organizers of these rallies is A.N.S.W.E.R., a communist organization. --- Some legal immigrants are against illegals getting citizenship. Of course, their views rarely get covered in the media and are drowned out by the mass protests: Contrary to scenes of hundreds of thousands of united Latinos marching across the country in support of immigration reform, a sizable number of the ethnic group opposes the marches and strongly objects to illegal immigration. ...snip... "There are a lot of Hispanics that are upset about the illegal just the same way as the Anglo population," said Barrios, a third-generation Mexican-American who traces his family's roots in Arizona to the 1870s. "That group is larger than many people would believe." South Phoenix resident Elsie Orta said she has no plans to participate in Monday's march in Phoenix. "Other Hispanics have told me to go to the demonstrations," said Orta, 55, who said her mother is from New Mexico and her father's family traces its roots to Spain. "I think it's hurting them. They're making a fool of themselves." The Phoenix native believes Arizona is under siege by illegal immigrants who speak Spanish, use public services and take jobs away from citizens. Illegal immigrants, she said, should be deported. "They want us to cater to them all the time," she said. "They're coming over here, they're taking our jobs. And now, everything has to be in English and Spanish? I don't think so. They need to go back." wizbangblog.com