Thinking....Again

I was thinking about the universe, and the fact that all those stars we see are really suns, and galaxies, and nebulas so far away that the light we see from them is at least four light years away. All these things are rotating around a mysterious center of a mysterious galaxy called the Milky Way. We are just one little, tiny dot in that galaxy.

I was thinking about the Milky Way being only one medium-sized galaxy, spinning among billions of other galaxies...everything traveling at the speed of light through the universe.

All the amazing suns and worlds spread over such a vast space.

Then I thought about a flower on a new flowering bush we bought yesterday. It brilliantly colored with purples and blues, and each flower was different. I realized that this place we call Earth contains billions of amazing things.

I picked up a handfull of sand and examined it....really examined each little pebble. Each one was different, different colors, different streaks, different sizes.

Then I just looked at the sky and the plants and trees around me.

We are surrounded by all these intricate, colorful, and constantly changing things and we don't realize it. We don't appreciate what we have. Is there another world like this one in the whole universe?

I don't normally consider all these things on a daily basis.

I plan to.

Beginning today.

Immigration: This picture angers me to no end

This picture angers me more than anything I have seen in years. I am so disgusted with these ungrateful students.

Illegal Immigration

This is perceived as quite a problem in the states that are strongly affected by it like Arizona, California and Texas.

I live in Texas and I can assure you, we have been invaded by Spanish-speaking people (about the nicest way I can put it). When I go into any convenience store, any time of day, I run into Spanish-speaking people, buying beer mostly.
There is a recent poll that says 88 percent of Americans say something needs to be done about this. The Senate is getting ready to introdue something to show they are acting on the wishes of the American people. But, what can/should the senate do? Is it already too late? Are the invaders here to stay?

President Bush wants to set up some kind of program where a worker can come up and work for a certain amount of time on a visa, then go back. That program is already in affect and has been used by industry for years. It's called the L1B visa program, and lawyers all over are hustling to bring workers over from anywhere...very lucrative gig for them.

The L1B visa thing was originally intended to help companies find someone AFTER they have looked for a suitable candidate among the US citizenry. Unfortunately, that's not the way it works. The major companies are hiring thousands of engineers and technicians from smaller companies, mostly Venezuela, Argentina, Columbia, and India, for less than their American counterparts, working them here for up to seven years, then sending them back. And I'm sure there are loopholes around that. I know, I'm working next to someone like that right now.

Right...so much for keeping the US jobs in the US.

So, that's President Bush's proposal. Now, Senator Frist wants to push legislation to enforce punishment on those that hire illegals.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has said the Senate will take up his proposal to tighten borders and punish employers who hire illegal immigrants if the Judiciary Committee doesn't complete a broader bill by next week.

Hello? I thought it was already against the law to hire illegals...I guess the greedy business owners have gotten around that little law for years by paying them in cash and not paying taxes (both the business owner and the illegal). Now it's gotten to the point that construction companies HAVE to hire illegals to make any money. They have become an essential element in the construction, food service, and cleaning service industries (just to mention a few). We go out and eat a lot and most restaurant chains hire illegals as their "cooks." The wait staff complain that they can't get an order done because they have to have an interpreter to talk to the cooks. Watch the buss staff and cooks the next time you go out to eat. You'll see.

These ompanies have made themselves dependent on illegal workers...just to make a buck.

Now you have senators opposing any kind of action to punish these lawbreakers and essentially give them the keys to YOUR city. One of the biggest manipulators is Senator Clinton. She wants to block the proposal to change illegal immigration from a misdeameanor to a felony.

She also called for new enforcement laws, including penalties for employers who exploit illegal immigrants, as well as a system to allow the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants currently living in the United States to earn their citizenship.

Clinton expressed sympathy to representatives of communities along the U.S.-Mexico border that are frustrated by the stress of providing social services to large numbers of undocumented immigrants. But she also said she hoped to send a message that supporters of punitive immigration policy faced significant political risk for doing so.

"We want the outcome to be that they're on the wrong side of the politics as well as the wrong side of history and American values," she said.

Oh WAAH...she just sees the hispanic vote and wants to capitalize on it if/when she runs for president. You notice in the above quote that she wants penalties for those employers who EXPLOIT illegal immigrants? She doesn't say diddly about penalties for those employers who HIRE them.

That's illegal too, as I understand. And, that's the whole point of this rant. The illegals are taking over Tejas, Arizona, and California (among others). They are taking jobs, buying land and houses (one just moved in next to me in a house that I couldn't afford), paying cash for everything, and sending their money and support back to the Motherland to the tune of several billion dollars a year. In the meantime, we have to pay their medical bills, provide them an education (did you know that when they go to our schools, they don't even have to learn English? They usually have an interpreter. I saw that when I substituted a few years ago).
They are taking up our welfare and SSI payments and they STILL don't have to be American citizens.

This is not right.

I want my country back.

Just what WOULD happen if we left Iraq now?

I am a dedicated American. I gave twenty years of my life to the Air Force in a law enforcement/combat role.
I feel strongly for every troop that is in harm's way there in Iraq.
But after reading this blog and some others, I decided that yes, it is time to pull out now. What good are we doing there? I know we are rebuilding and helping set up an infrastructure but, can't the Iraqis do that?

Our presence there seems to be more of an irritant than an asset. We are accidently killing civilians, as show in this blog. We also seem to just be targets for the insurgents (terrorists) that come in from other countries. We are just an opportunity for these organizations to perfect their craft. At our expense.

Will Iraq fall into civil war? Will Iran or Syria move in and take it over?
The most important thing to me is that we do not let the Iraqis down. We cannot allow the terrorists that are just waiting in the wings to swoop in and take over. Those that were our friends might become victims (just look into the past at what Hussein did to those that rose against him in Desert Storm).

I just don't know what would be right.

Happy St. Patty's Day

Starkle, starkle, little twink,
Who the hell you are, you think?
I'm not under the alfluence of incohol,
Although some thinkle peep I are.
The drunker I sit here,
The longer I be.
I fool so feelish,
I don't know who is me.

You ever wonder what the hit song was on the day you were Born?

Just a bunch of useless information, but it's interesting.

Mine was, "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" by Vera Lynn

Probably the most Original Obituary I have Read

Obituaries are generally pretty dry and boring. Probably because they're only read by those that suffer the loss and people like me, who check it daily to make sure I'm not in it.

This one though, was posted by Mr. Drags in an It's Happening Forum at Wincoast.com.

This one was for Dorothy Gibson Cully, 86, mother of four, who had died peacefully June 3 while in the "loving care of her two favorite children." "All of her breath leaked out."

Here is the body of the obit:

On June 3, 2005 at 10:45 p.m. in Memphis, Tenn., Dorothy Gibson Cully, 86, died peacefully, while in the loving care of her two favorite children, Barbara and David. All of her breath leaked out. The mother of four children, grandmother to 11, great-grandmother to nine, devoted wife for 56 years to the late Ralph Chester Cully and a true friend to many, Dot had been active as a volunteer in the Catholic Church and other community charities for much of the past 25 years.

She was born the second child of six in 1919 as Frances Dorothy Gibson, daughter to Kathleen Heard Gibson and Calvin Hooper Gibson, an inventor best known as the first person since the Middle Ages to calculate the arcane lead-to-gold formula. Unable to actually prove this complex theory scientifically, and frustrated by the cruel conspiracy of the so-called "scientific community" working against his efforts, he ultimately stuck his head in a heated gas oven with a golden delicious apple propped in his mouth. Miraculously, the apple was saved for the evening dessert. Calvin was not.

Native Marylanders and longtime Baltimore, Kent Island and Ocean City residents, Ralph and Dot later resided in Lakeland, Fla., and Virginia Beach, Va.. Several years after Ralph's death, Dot moved to Raleigh in 2001, where she lived with her son David.

At the time of her death, Dot was visiting her daughter Carol in Memphis. Carol and her husband, Ron, away from home attending a "very important conference" at a posh Florida resort, rushed home 10 days later after learning of the death. Dot's other children, dutifully at their mother's side helping with the normal last-minute arrangements -- hospice notification, funeral parlor notice, revising the will, etc. -- happily picked up the considerable slack of the absent former heiress.

Dot is warmly remembered as a generous, spiritually strong, resourceful, tolerant and smart woman, who was always ready to help and never judged others or their shortcomings. Dot always found time to knit sweaters, sew quilts and send written notes to the family children, all while working a full-time job, volunteering as Girl Scout leader and donating considerable time to local charities and the neighborhood Catholic Church.

Dot graduated from Eastern High School at 15, worked in Baltimore full time from 1934 to 1979, beginning as a factory worker at Cross & Blackwell and retiring after 30 years as property manager and controller for a Baltimore conglomerate, Housing Engineering Company, all while raising four children, two of who are fairly normal.

An Irishwoman proud of and curious about her heritage, she was a voracious reader of historical novels, particularly those about the glories and trials of Ireland. Dot also loved to travel, her favorite destination being Eire's auld sod, where she dreamed of the magic, mystery and legend of the Emerald Isle.

Dot Cully is survived by her sisters, Ginny Torrico in Virginia, Marian Lee in Florida and Eileen Adams in Baltimore; her brother, Russell Gibson of Fallston, Md.; her children, Barbara Frost of Ocean City, Md., Carol Meroney of Memphis, Tenn., David Cully of Raleigh, N.C. and Stephen Cully of Baltimore, Md. Contributions to the Wake County (N.C.) Hospice Services are welcomed. Opinions about the details of this obit are not, since Mom would have liked it this way.

"Miraculously, the apple was saved for the evening dessert. Calvin was not."

So funny. Enjoy.

Country Dweller, City Worker

Well, it happened again.

I ride the MetroRail into downtown and about once or twice a week, I get the crazy ones. You know the ones that are having a great conversation on their cell phone, until you notice....they don't have a cell phone.

They always seem to sit near me.

This morning...black lady.

I noticed the smell first, then the vocalizations.

She seemed happy though...laughed a lot...then out of nowhere, she yelled, "Oh my God!" Startled everyone. When I looked at her, she looked back like she hadn't heard a thing.

Man, life is so strange.

Observations about our life on this Planet

1. Save The Whales. Collect The Whole Set.
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2. A Day Without Sunshine Is Like, Night.
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3. On The Other Hand, You Have Different Fingers.
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4. I Just Got Lost In Thought. It Wasn't Familiar Territory .
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5. 42.7 Percent Of All Statistics Are Made Up On The Spot.
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6. Light Travels Faster Than Sound, Which Is Why Some People Appear Bright Until You Hear them Speak.
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7. I Feel Like I'm Diagonally Parked In A Parallel Universe.
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8. Honk If You Love Peace And Quiet.
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9. Remember, Half The People You Know Are Below Average.
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10. He Who Laughs Last, Thinks Slowest.
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11. Depression Is Merely Anger Without Enthusiasm.
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12. The Early Bird May Get The Worm, But The Second Mouse Gets
The Cheese.
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13. I Drive Way Too Fast To Worry About Cholesterol.
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14. Support Bacteria. They're The Only Culture Some People Have.
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15. Monday Is An Awful Way To Spend 1/7 Of Your Week.
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16. A Clear Conscience Is Usually The Sign Of A Bad Memory.
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17. Change Is Inevitable, Except From Vending Machines.
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18. Get A New Car For Your Spouse. It'll Be A Great Trade!
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19. Plan To Be Spontaneous Tomorrow.
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20. Always Try To Be Modest, And Be Proud Of It!
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21. If You Think Nobody Cares, Try Missing A Couple Of Payments.
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22. How Many Of You Believe In Psycho-Kinesis? Raise My Hand.
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23 . Ok, So What's The Speed Of Dark?
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24. How Do You Tell When You're Out Of Invisible Ink?
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25. If Everything Seems To Be Going Well, You Have Obviously Overlooked Something.
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26. When Everything Is Coming Your Way, You're In The Wrong Lane.
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27. Hard Work Pays Off In The Future. Laziness Pays Off Now.
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28. Everyone Has A Photographic Memory. Some Just Do Not Have Film.
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29. If Barbie Is So Popular, Why Do You Have To Buy Her Friends?
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30. How Much Deeper Would The Ocean Be Without Sponges?
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31. Eagles May Soar, But Weasels Do Not Get Sucked Into Jet Engines.
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32. What Happens If You Get Scared Half To Death Twice?
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33. I Used To Have An Open Mind But My Brains Kept Falling Out.
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34. I Couldn't Repair Your Brakes, So I Made Your Horn Louder.
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35. Why Do Psychics Have To Ask You For Your Name?
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36. Inside Every Older Person Is A Younger Person Wondering What Happened.
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37. Just Remember - If The World Did Not Suck, We Would All Fall Off.

What are you Thinking?

The sale of six US ports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and our president backing this transaction has me just totally....totally bewildered.

I have tried and tried to back this administration. I'm slowly falling away. Not to the dark side for sure. I guess somewhere in the middle.

The president asks why it is alright for us to back a British-run port authority and not a middle-eastern one?
Here's one:



There are questions:

Didn't the president say we would not cooperate with countries that support terrorism?
Wasn't the UAE one of the few countries that fully recognized the Taliban as a government?
Wasn't two of the 9/11 terrorists from the UAE?
Didn't some money fot 9/11 go through the UAE?

Somthing just ain't right here....

Who has the Saddam Tapes?

The so-called "Saddam Tapes" that allegedly revealed so much about the pre-Iraq war were very interesting. But, in the "ABC News Exclusive," they said,

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, says the tapes are authentic and show that "Saddam had a fixation on weapons of mass destruction and he had a fixation on hiding what he was doing from the U.N. inspectors." Hoeckstra says there are more than 35,000 boxes of such tapes and documents that the U.S. government has not analyzed nor made public that should also be translated and studied on an urgent basis.

My first and still most pressing question is, which U.S. government agency has these 35,000 boxes of tapes and who is translating and analyzing them?

What's the deal?

Was this just another act of yellow journalism by ABC News? Is the whole Saddam Tapes thing just going to be dropped and never taken up again?
Who is minding the store?
Who is making sure this will be done?

I've got a bad Feeling about This

Islam is the only religion that thinks about Jihad, and expansion of their religion through violent means.
Muslims are the only group that believes their god has given them the mission to kill those who reject him.
Muslims are the only group that imposes the antiquated laws of their “holy” book.
And, Muslims are the only group that has not apologized for the crimes of their past and keeps committing those crimes even today. (paraphrase from an excellent blog by Truthseeker, a former Muslim.

I know the Muslims are not the only ones that have killed millions in the name of religion. The US was partially founded on something called "manifest destiny." It was the "destiny" of the "civilized" peoples of Europe to convert the "savages" to christianity and a "civilized" way of life. The "savages" did not know any better. They were no better than animals that needed to be trained. Those "savages" that they couldn't convert to their religion were killed.

I could go back further and mention the Crusades that lasted 250 years and killed millions but I don't want to write a book here. You can find an excellent history of the Crusades on several sites if you care to read.

In our times, violence and controversy initiated by Muslims seems to be exploding all over the world. Almost every country in the world seems to have Muslims. All of those Muslims seem to be involved in something controversial that brings attention to their cause. Western Muslims publicly condemn acts of violence but they seem torn between standing up to theses acts of violence and standing behind them, in the name of Islam.

Everyday, we see more and more demonstrations, bombings, kidnapping, and senseless killing by so-called Muslims, not just in Iraq.

This is what is concerning me; this explosion of Muslim demonstrations, assasinations, kidnapping, all of it. Do you think this is just a bunch of angry Muslims rainsing hell about some cartoons in a small newspaper or do you think, like me, that there is a consorted effort worldwide to impose Islam on the entire world?

Is this a planned thing? Is it something that has been planned for a long time that is just now coming to fruition?

I hope I'm just paranoid but it seems like there is something spreading around the world, growing and growing until it covers the entire earth. Afterall, the Koran does say that the goal of Islam is to make sure the whole world is Muslim. Of course, our own Bible tells us to spread the faith around the world as well so Muslims aren't alone in that message either.

I just don't know.

Support the War, but not the Troops. Support the Troops but not the War. Can you support both?

The war does suck, that's for sure. I don't think there was ever a "good" war. I think it was gonna happen despite the administration that was in power. Clinton was headed that way, with the attacks on Iraq and constantly asking the UN to do something about Hussein. Hussein was violating all the rules set by Desert Storm, thumbing his nose at the UN and the weapons inspectors.

Then 9/11 happened. We were blindsided and we were looking for a fight. We went into Afghanistan and took out the Taliban.

We and the allies took care of them. Now, where to next? Right there is where the problems started. We still wanted to kick some terrorist's ass. We needed to get rid of these terrorists once and for all.

Al-Qaeda was training in Iraq (it's a fact and don't say it's not). Hussein was given 16 chances to comply with the UN sanctions and was not showing any signs of stopping his shit. So....here we came.

Now, you agree we are in an insane situation. We have troops that believe we are making a difference by stopping terrorists in Iraq. All the terrorists are coming to Iraq to perfect their craft.

We won't leave until they stop killing everyone. They won't stop until we leave (so they say).

We have troops we support and admire for their courage, yet we are in a war with an immoral enemy that doesn't play by the rules. Our troops are getting killed and that is not supposed to happen.
We support our troops and believe along with them that they are doing good over there. The Iraqis are better off.
After all, they are humans like everyone else. All they want is to provide for the family and live a happy life. They don't want to fear losing their Father to killers that come in the night and take him away, never to return. The troops are helping that come about. At least that's their goal.

If the troops leave now, the country will drop into chaos and will be lost to another facist regime.

Who'se to say that won't happen anyway? But, who'se to say the new government will not be strong and will want to create a democracy in the midst of this chaos?

We must support our troops and let them complete their mission. If the new Iraqi government takes hold and starts showing signs of being a stable entity that is good for the people, the troops will have accomplished their mission and can come home.

So, we have to support both to the final end. I hope it ends well and God bless those troops in harm's way.

Come home soon.

It's gonna be a Gay Day at the Oscars

Well, it seems they ignored The Passion of the Christ last year, and this year, Narnia, in favor of the gay-themed movies. There's Brokeback Mountain, Capote (gay), and another one featuring a main character that receives a sex change. I can't remember it's name but it got four nods. Another one of those movies that no one in the rest of the world has heard of until just before the oscars. That happens every year too doesn't it? No one heard of Chicago until just before the oscars, same for Million Dollar Baby....but that's another topic altogether.

They just don't seem to get it that these themes don't appeal to mainstream America.

I'm not homophobic but I don't really get off on seeing two men enjoying each others hairy butts and I really don't want to pay to see it. I will have to go however, because I have free passes and a gay member of my family wants to see it. I told him I would go but if they start swapping spit and playing ring around the flagpole, I'll have to go get some popcorn.

It just seems that the entertainment community just doesn't get it that most of America doesn't care to see that. Maybe they think they know what's best and what's trendy and if they like it, we should as well.

I don't think so.

I used to love the oscars, all the trailers and the spontaneously stupid remarks by the participants but...I don't know...even with Jon Stewart as the MC, I can't see watching it this year.

I want to hear CAIR'S response to this

LOS ANGELES RADIO STATION SQUARES-OFF WITH MUSLIM GROUP
Mon Jan 30 2006 10:10:49 ET

Los Angeles's top talkradio station is under fire from a Muslim group because of comments made earlier this month by morning man Bill Handel. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has demanded an apology from Handel for making fun of a stampede that killed hundreds of Muslims during an annual pilgrimage.

But Handel is set to fire back, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Handel will apologize IF the Council on American-Islamic Relations:


1) Decries all acts of terror (described specifically, not generally)


2) Agrees that Israel is a sovereign nation with the right to defensible borders


3) CAIR has no ties of any sort, financially or otherwise, to any terror orgs or individiuals.


MANAGEMENT STATEMENT

KFI-AM does not condone making light of the deaths of people engaged in religious observances. We regret that listeners found the comments of one of our on-air hosts to be insensitive. KFI does not censor its hosts, nor does it tell them what to say or not to say. KFI is a strong and passionate believer in 1st amendment rights and that is at the very core of this radio station.

Developing...

NOTE: I'm at home recovering from an operation so if anyone hears about a response to this, please let me know.

Goodbye Doobie

My old dog, Doobie, died this morning.
He was my inheritance from Mom when she died.
He was about 17...been blind for six months.
He made some unhappy noises last night and this morning, when I carried him out to pee, he couldn't stand up even worse than before.
I put him in his little room (carrier) to eat and when I checked later, he was gone.
He's with Mom now, I'm sure.

"And now,to all the good dogs...
the special ones
you loved best,
those of ours we still miss...

Goodbye,

until on some brighter day,
in some fairer place,
They run out again
to greet us."

George Papashvily

Global Warming is going to Target Blacks Only Now?

I guess the next natural disaster will be looking just for 'dem po' ole black folks?

Give me a freekin' break!

And this statement:

Relatively, Blacks are environmental Good Samaritans. Per capita, we emit approximately 20 percent less carbon dioxide than Whites – well below 2020 targets set by the U.S. Climate Stewardship Act. Not only do we use more energy-conserving public transportation, we spend considerably less per capita on energy-intensive material goods.

Yet Blacks are exposed to worse air pollution than Whites in every major metropolitan area. Some charge that the Bush administration has made matters worse by creating new policies, like the Clear Skies Act and the Healthy Forest Initiative, that allow utilities and industries to pollute more. President Bush enraged environmentalists when he opted out of the Kyoto protocol global warming treaty, saying it would harm the U.S. economy.

WTF???

Blacks emit less carbon dioxide than whites?

And finally...let's get on the old Blame Bush bandwagon....it's all his fault.

GEEZ....I need some coffee....this is just too much.

Duece Four Returns from Mosul

If you have followed Michael Yon and his adventures in Iraq, you will be familiar with Duece Four, the unit Michael Yon has been with this last year.
They have just returned from a year of fighting in Mosul.
The link is to a video compilation by someone at Duece Four.

The guys have been through a lot. They have also done a lot to make us and the world safer.

Welcome Home

Democrats

This is good! Dear Friends:

Many years ago in Seattle, two wonderful neighbors, Elliott and Patty Roosevelt came to my home to swim on a regular basis. They were a great couple full of laughter and stories that today I continue to marvel at.
Both are now deceased, but their stories remain. During the years of our friendship we had many, many discussions about his parents (President Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt) and how his father and mother never intended for the Social Security and Welfare programs to turn out the way they are today. Elliott used to say that if his mother returned to earth and saw what the politicians had done to their programs she would have burned all of them in hell.

Here is a story I received today regarding the Social Security Program and I immediately thought of Elliott's comments. Hope you will read this and think about it. Margaret Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA)

Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust Fund" rather than into the General operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and,
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to "put away," you may be interested in the following:

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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust" fund and put it into the General fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the "tie-breaking" deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.

------------------- AND MY FAVORITE:

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!
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Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violation of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is, uninformed citizens believe it!

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe good changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn't so.

Demand? Demand? Who are these people to demand anything?

Mexican and Central American diplomats are DEMANDING that we allow more immigrants! They are DEMANDING a guest worker program and the legalization of "undocumented workers."
Who the hell do these people think they are to DEMAND ANYTHING of us?

Here in Texas, we're invaded by illegals and legals alike. I can't go into a convenience store without running into 5 or 6 of them rattling off in spanish and piling eight to a pickup. On the way home, it's the same thing only they're loading up on beer.
My new "neighbor" is Mexican. He tried to take more land than the survey allowed and when I confronted him on it, he suddenly "couldn't speak English," when two weeks ago, he spoke it perfectly. He's also moved a double-wide on his property and now it looks like a perfect little "barrio." Don't get me started on the loud Chicano music I have to endure every weekend.
Every restaurant we go into, I can be assured the food is cooked by a mexican or central american. I have a friend who is a waitress at a local restaurant. She can't train to a manager position because the cooking staff doesn't speak English! She will probably have to give up that dream to someone who is bi-lingual.
I know these crooked bastards are DEMANDING this from us because the "immigrants" provide over 16 billion dollars in revenue but dammit...why in the hell can't they fix up their own nations and take care of their own? I wonder how they treat other "immigrants" that try to come into their countries from the South.

Man, I have to go calm down...this is getting me angrier and angrier the more I think about it....GEEZ!