Tancredo to offer amendment to free Ramos and Compean

Tomorrow, Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-CO (Presidential Candidate) plans to offer an amendment intended to get unjustly jailed US Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean released from prison immediately.

Tancredo will attach his amendment to H.R. 3093, Appropriations bill for Dept. of Commerce, Justice and Science, stating that none of the funds may be used to carry out the 11 and 12 year sentences imposed respectively on Ramos and Compean by US District Court for Western District of Texas.

I will let you know tomorrow how the vote goes. To read further info on this, go to http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56812

Bonds Just 2 Away

Barry Bonds hit 2HR on 7/19/2007 (752, 753) to get within 2 HR of tying Hank Aaron's record. Its only a matter of time before Bonds breaks the record.

July 19th, This Day in History

1692 - Salem Witch Trials - 5 women hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts

1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon

1940 - Army Order 112 forms Intelligence Corps of British Army.

1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, NC, killing 82

1979 - The Sandinista rebels overthrow US backed Somoza family in Nicaragua.

1980 - Opening Ceremony of 1980 Summer Olympic games in Moscow, USSR.

1989 - United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, IA, killing 112 of 296 passengers.

1994 - 4 26 Ft. Ceiling Tiles fall from the roof of the Kingdome in Seattle, just hours before a scheduled Mariners game.

1996 - Opening Ceremonies of 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, GA.

Our New American Hero...

Joey Chestnutt. Chestnutt, on Independence Day, defeated Japan's Takeru Kobayashi in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island. Chestnutt ate 66 hotdogs to defeat the 6 time Champion.

Its time we brought the title back home to America. Joey Chestnutt, you are our American Hero.

Happy Independence Day, July 4th

1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.

1776 - American Independence Day: The US Declaration of Independence by the 2nd Continental Congress is signed in Philadelphia, declaring the US free from British rule.

1802 - United States Military Academy opens in West Point, NY.

1826 - Former US Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die, fifty years to the day after the adoption of the US Declaration of Independence.

1845 - Near Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau embarks on a 2 year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond.

1855 - First Edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass is published in Brooklyn, NY.

1863 - War of Northern Aggression: Confederate forces in Vicksburg, MS surrender to Gen. Grant after 47 day seige. On the day in Helena, Arkansas, a Confederate force is repulsed at the Battle of Helena and Gen. Robert E. Lee leads his beaten Army of Northern Virginia out of Gettysburg after suffering defeat to Gen. Meade. The War of Northern Aggression was over that day, the 4th of July.

1865 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.

1934 - Joe Louis wins his first professional boxing match.

1939 - Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that the considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball.

1966- President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into law. The Act goes into effect the next year.

1970 - Popular syndicated radio show, "American Top 40" debuts with host, Casey Kasem.

1976 - The United States celebrates its bicentennial.

1987 - In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka "the Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.

1997 - NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.