Download Flash Games

Add arcade style flash games to your website or blog to encourage visitors to stick around and bookmark! You can now download entire collections of arcade style flash games over at OpenWeb Digital Downloads. The game packs have been tested, categorized, packaged and made available for immediate digital download. You can find them over at OpenWeb Downloads and also over at PayLoadZ along with other unique software. Over 300+ flash games are available in several zipped download packs.

The Shooting Arcade game to your left is one typical example. You can demo them all live over at their arcade site. Just register at the OpenWeb Downloads Arcade and check them out yourself and also have some fun at the same time! We have also loaded three of these games into our right margin for you to play and check out right here at ZZ N&S.

The basic download packs for blogs contains 90+ flash games (in .swf format) including its respective thumbnail (.gif) along with an instruction guide (.pdf) explaining how to configure them so your visitors can play them right on your site just as in the Shooting Arcade example above. [Basic Game Inventory Listing (.pdf)] Special packs are also available for vBulletin Arcades and Nuke Arcades which now also include installation scripts for these formal arcade sites. All these games will run however stand alone on your website, blog or off line on your PC or laptop.

You will need server FTP access. If you have access to a server what you do is simply upload all the files in the pack and then link to them in a post, or in a special area in your margin, (See our right margin as an example) or link to them anywhere else on your site that you choose similar to a picture file. If your server host (ISP) doesn’t allow file uploading or you don’t have access to an server, check out FileCrunch. Filecrunch provides a free file hosting option which anyone can use. Very sweet! Flash games right in your blog! This is an easy way to entertain your visitors and also get them to stick around and give them another reason to bookmark your site!

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Tony Blair Punches Out

Immigrant Amnesty Bill Dead RIP

(WASHINGTON) June 28 — President Bush’s effort to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy, a cornerstone of his domestic agenda, collapsed Thursday in the Senate, with little prospect that it can be revived before Mr. Bush leaves office in 19 months.

The bill called for the biggest changes to immigration law in more than 20 years, offering legal status to millions of illegal immigrants while trying to secure borders. But the Senate, forming blocs that defied party affiliation, could never unite on the main provisions.

Rejecting the president’s last-minute pleas, it voted, 53 to 46, to turn back a motion to end debate and move toward final passage. Supporters fell 14 votes short of the 60 needed to close the debate.

Mr. Bush placed telephone calls to lawmakers throughout the morning. But members of his party abandoned him in droves, with just 12 of the 49 Senate Republicans sticking by him on the important procedural vote that determined the fate of the bill.

Nearly one-third of Senate Democrats voted, in effect, to block action on the bill.

The vote followed an outpouring of criticism from conservatives and others who called it a form of amnesty for lawbreakers.

The outcome was a bitter disappointment for Mr. Bush and other supporters of a comprehensive approach, including Hispanic and church groups and employers who had been seeking greater access to foreign workers.

Supporters and opponents said the measure was dead for the remainder of the Bush administration, though conceivably individual pieces might be revived.

The vote reflected the degree to which Congress and the nation are polarized over immigration. The emotional end to what had been an emotional debate was evident, with a few senior staff members who had invested months in writing the bill near tears.

“The bill now dies,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who helped write the measure.

The outcome also underscored the challenge that Mr. Bush faces in exerting authority and enacting an agenda as members of his party increasingly break with him and Democrats no longer fear him. Having already given up on other ambitious second-term plans like overhauling Social Security, the administration has little prospect of winning any big new legislative achievements in its final months.

The collapse also highlighted the difficulties that the new Democratic leadership in Congress has had in showing that it can address the big problems facing the nation. In this case, Democratic leaders asserted that the failure of the immigration bill reflected on Mr. Bush, and not on their party.

Senator David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who helped lead opposition to the bill, said: “The proponents did not get even a simple majority. The message is crystal clear. The American people want us to start with enforcement at the border and at the workplace and don’t want promises. They want action. They want results. They want proof, because they’ve heard all the promises before.”

In voting to end the debate, the 12 Republicans were joined by 33 Democrats and one independent. Voting against the motion to end the debate were 15 Democrats, one independent and 37 Republicans, including the minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

“I had hoped for a bipartisan accomplishment,” Mr. McConnell said. “What we got was a bipartisan defeat.”

Among the Democrats voting no were several up for re-election next year, including Senators Max Baucus of Montana, Tom Harkin of Iowa and John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said he spoke to Mr. Bush after the vote and thanked him for his work in support of the bill.

More… dare I say …. The NY Times

Sanity has prevailed!! Most Americans believe we should begin by enforcing the laws on the books and prosecuting companies that break the law by hiring illegal aliens. Only Congress’s popularity ratings are lower than the President’s and now we all understand why. This bill would have sent the wrong message to employers that indentured servitude will be rewarded if you just wait long enough and there are enough potential votes at risk to pander to. We are glad that Democrats and Republicans alike have listened to the American people who are legally here and shot down this faulty plan of the President’s that would have caused a mass invasion into the U.S. of immigrants to jump on the fast track to a welfare system sucking dry our economy and infrastructure. Immigrants that followed the law and emigrated here LEGALLY we are sure are the winners and should be most satisfied with this outcome. There are plenty of corner cases, but one cannot just dismiss that the approach of breaking the law to enter the U.S., and the corporate hiring of such “employees” should be rewarded rather than punished. That’s our editorial opinion for the evening.

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The Lord Your Cheney

The Vice President, Dick Cheney, guides his pastoral flock in an animated parody that allows us to call a winner of the ZZ News and Satire award for the month of June. We are so confident that no satirical material will surpass this, that we bestow the award today before the end of the month! Even if you are a Republican, and a supporter of the present Administration, you’ll have to admit that this is one great piece of satirical humor. Mark Fiore has outdone himself on this one. — [Hat Tip: markfiore.com]

No doubt the current hearings on secrecy has fueled this parody, as Democratic Congressional leaders take full aim, (no pun intended) at Dick Cheney’s involvement in some of the more dubious undertakings of the current administration. Fiore’s animation depicts Dick Cheney as the Lord on High and keeper of all the secret thoughts that filter their way into the heads of Saints Bush and Gonzalez. The V.P.’s current predicament is certainly creating great material for satirists of virtually all political persuasions. We’re sure there will be more to come if it’s not upstaged by failed Immigration Reform legislation in the Senate. — ed.

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Obama wins Politico.com Straw Poll

Is this bad news for Hillary Clinton? The Barack Obama campaign thinks so. But what exactly does this “straw poll” victory tell us about the Obama voter appeal? Politico.com website is not a bastion of centrist Democrats. From what we can tell the vast majority of the readership already had it out for Hillary Clinton months ago. The upshot is that this confirms that Obama’s strategy to alienating Hillary from the far left of the Democrat political spectrum is working. Will it work where it counts? Only the primary results will show for sure.

Meanwhile the GOP is probably licking their chops over an Obama ticket. Even with Hillary as a VP running mate (although we hardly think that’s probable. The reverse is more likely.)

Obama wins Politico.com Straw Poll - Politico.com: “Senator Barack Obama scored a victory among progressive activists Wednesday, winning the Politico.com Straw Poll of attendees at the Take Back America Conference in Washington.

Obama received 29% of the 720 votes cast in the straw poll, narrowly beating out former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, and decisively knocking official front-runner Hillary Clinton into third place.

Edwards took 26% of the vote and Clinton 17%.

The poll establishes Obama and Edwards as a two-man top tier among the liberal segment of the Democratic base, said pollster Stan Greenberg, because they were also the most popular second choices for the nomination.

‘If you look at this, you see Obama’s [supporters'] second choice and Edwards [supporters'] second choice are each other — in this group, the two of them form the top tier.’

Those results may indicate that a majority of the activists surveyed are looking for a choice other than Clinton.

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson came in fourth with 9% of the vote.

Al Gore came in fifth with 8% — although he has not said he is running and was not included in the choices on the ballot. As a write-in, he beat out four declared candidates.” — politico.com

Who will save the Democrats from themselves ? Why Al Gore of course. He will undoubtedly be the wild card that will provide the most consternation in the camapign. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton on the same ticket? Lord help us all!!

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Immigration Leadership

…or follow me to Albania where my legacy will live on forever!!

The Church of Obama

The phrase, “hijacking a religion”, which up until now has been used by politicians on both sides of the aisle to describe the rationalization of Islamic terrorism by radical Islamic clerics, has now been hijacked itself by Barack Obama in recent speeches:

“Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a 30-minute speech before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.

“Faith got hijacked, partly because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, all too eager to exploit what divides us,” the Illinois senator said. — [Hat Tip: Washington Post]

In a “Bush league” attempt to psychologically draw a parallel inferring the Christian right is on par with Hamas, Hezboulah and other Islamic fundamentalist terror organization for which this phrase has been most commonly associated during the past five years should not go un-noticed. What is he up to??

Could it be that Barack Obama is now a theological expert? Where does he get this deep insight from?

Obama is a member of the United Church of Christ, a church of about 1.2 million members that is considered one the most liberal of the mainline Protestant groups.

In 1972, the church was the first to ordain an openly gay man. Two years ago, the church endorsed same-sex marriage, the largest Christian denomination to do so. Obama believes that states should decide whether to allow gay marriage, and he opposes a constitutional amendment against it.

Conservative Christian bloggers have linked Obama to what they call the “unbiblical” teachings of his church. Theological conservatives believe gay relationships violate Scripture, while more liberal Christians emphasize the Bible’s social justice teachings.

If you are a Democrat you have to begin to wonder if this latest back handed innuendo aimed at organized Christian religion is not the first sign of a religious live and let live philosophy aimed at pandering to the far left base. We suspect Barack Obama hopes this more “secular” position will resonate strongly with them driving any remaining hard left Hillary Clinton supporters into his camp as he begins to polarize his party even further. Obama appeared destined to fight with Hillary over the far left vote from the start of the campaign as the Senator from New York seems to have a solid following with main stream Democrats. Expect polarization, religious and racial pandering from the Obama zealots to amp up in coming months.

Obama trails Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York by 33 percent to 21 percent in the most recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll among Democrats and those leaning toward the party.

– ZZ Bachman

Romney Meets the Evangelicals

Romney Explains Primary Strategy

Significant Differences Between Lutherans and Catholics Discovered

— [Hat Tip: to megitt33] who sent this in on the lighter side for us to share…

A little boy, about six years old, was walking down a dirt road after church one Sunday when he came to a crossroad where he met a little girl coming from another direction.

“Hello,” said the little boy.

Hi,” replied the little girl.

“Where are you going?” asked the little boy.

“I’m on my way home from church,” answered the little girl.

“Me too,” replied the little boy. “I’m on my way home from church. Which church do you go to?” asked the little boy.

“I go to the Lutheran church down the road,” replied the little girl. “What about you?”

“I go to the Catholic church at the top of the hill,” replied the little boy.

They discovered that they were both going the same way so they decided to walk together. They came to a low spot in the road where spring rains had partially flooded the road.

There was no way that they could pass without getting wet. “If I get my new Sunday dress wet my mom’s going to skin me alive,” said the little girl.

“My Mom will tan my hide if I get my new Sunday suit wet,” replied the little boy.

“I know what I’ll do,” said the little girl. “I’m gonna pull off all my clothes and hold them over my head and wade across.” “That’s a good idea,” replied the little boy. “I’m going to do the same thing with my suit.”

So they both undressed and waded across to the other side without getting their clothes wet. As they stood there in the sun waiting to drip dry before putting their clothes back on, the little boy finally remarked, “You know, I never realized how much difference there is between a Lutheran and a Catholic.”

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