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	2008.05.14  01.22 A fact I hadn't pondered Thomas Sowell recently pointed out a factor in the rise of oil prices that I hadn't considered. India and China are both growing like mad right now, economically. Between them they have eight times America's population, and that's growing as well.... Hello, "Demand." To be fair, though, I haven't heard anyone else bring it up either. Just not as dramatic as "evil gouging oil companies," one supposes. And a little further outside our sphere of influence than taxes, legislation and NIMBY obstruction of domestic oil....

	2008.05.12  13.18 For my dear Chicken Littles..... For all the people in my response board who keep yelling "we have to do something NOW!!!".... "Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?" ---Walter Williams (http://PatriotPost.US/opinion/entrylist.asp?source_id=39) Perhaps I would listen more to the alarmists if they actually practiced what they preached and demonstrated some actual foresight in their choices. But when confronted with REAL long-term problems--- such as the tangible growing energy needs of a growing nation--- any action that takes longer than an election cycle gets voted down. Upgrade the electrical network? Build generators? Drill for oil in the Gulf or up in ANWR? "But that will take DECADES to pay off!...." And decades have now passed, and we are STILL not tapping into our own energy reserves, and STILL not building new generators, and STILL limping along on an electricity infrastructure that threatens to keel over at any moment, and STILL hearing the same excuse-- "But that will take DECADES to pay off!...." And it isn't nearly as flashy as making dramatic, sweeping, unconstitutional legislative decisions based on momentary panic, either.

	2008.05.09  19.28 We can't get to that [perfect utopian] world because of what I call the Four Horseman of Human Havoc -- Angry, Hungry, Stupid and Wicked. Oh, we might be able to solve Hungry someday, but the other three? And that's the rub. Until there is a fundamental change in human nature, the good guys need the guns to protect themselves from the bad guys..... It's easy, I told them, to imagine a gun-free world. It's very easy. Guns are a relatively new invention -- just go back in time a little ways. What do you get? Genghis Kahn, Attila the Hun, Julius Caesar...They wiped out entire towns, raped plundered and pillaged, all without guns. When they came to town, that's when you really needed a gun -- and not just a six shooter. Alan Korwin

	2008.05.07  00.38 In da mailbox Part 1 In just one year. Remember the election in 2006? Thought you might like to read the following: A little over one year ago: 1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high; 2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon; 3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%. Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen: 1) Consumer confidence plummet; 2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon; 3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase); 4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses); 5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars; 6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure. America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him. Part 2: Taxes...Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html Taxes under Clinton 1999 Taxes under Bush 2008 Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500 Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500 Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000 Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750 Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250 Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened. PART 3: You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this: Boy, am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS. I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts. 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html 5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 6. $3 Mi llion Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.h tml 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt .01.html 10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/ 12/ldt.01.html 11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht 12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period." Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf 13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm 14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States." Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR....

	2008.05.03  13.06 Price gouging? http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2008/apr/02/gas-station-owners-say-profits-slim/ Danny Foix, who has operated stations in Wichita Falls for years, said his profit margin was 10 cents per gallon when fuel was $1 a gallon and is still 10 cents per gallon now that it’s more than $3.He said credit card companies such as Visa now charge a fee of about 3 percent, which cuts into his profit.... “I used to rely on fuel profits to pay most of the bills. I can’t do that anymore,” Foix said. Increasingly, the biggest challenge for Foix and other operators is convincing drivers to step inside the store after they gas up. Their profits rely on the soda, beer, snacks and other merchandise they offer.... (Another station operator) pointed out that at 8 percent tax, the state makes more on gasoline sales than the retailer. ...With crude oil, gasoline’s raw ingredient, soaring to records near $112 earlier this month, ...Crack spreads, the difference between what refiners pay for crude and get for the gasoline they sell, have been in negative numbers some days recently. That means refiners were losing money on those days. Could someone explain to me why the high price of gasoline is the fault of EVERYONE--- except for the congressmen who won't let us drill for it, keeping us dependent on unstable mideastern markets, and who tax what we do get into ruination?

	2008.04.20  13.50 Behold! A counterargument! THE BRITES: EVOLUTIONISTS SPEAK OUT Knuther Denounces Expelled's Trickery and Nazi References "[T]here is no relationship between the Nazi elimination of weak links to accelerate evolution and modern Darwinism. This is true because I am more evolved and smarter than you. " "Richard Dawkins (blessed be his name) and Pee Zee were tricked into appearing in Expelled. They were tricked into signing release forms. They were tricked into long unedited denouncements of Christianity which appear in the film. They were tricked into receiving generous honoraria for being interviewed. They were tricked into cashing these checks and spending the money so it could not be returned. But trickery is what you can expect from peddlers of thought porn." "We know they were tricked because they are smarter than Ben Stein and the producers of Expelled." Covert Secret WISTAR Meeting Revealed! What Happened at this Clandestine Meeting of Strange Deists & Theists? ....The event attracted some of the most controversial whacko creationists of the past and present... Many of these strange people actually believe there might be a Creator. Some of the conference participants: Top Row: Stephen Myer, L. Pasteur, George W. Carver, Paul Nelson, de Donder, E. Schrödinger, Wasabi Jones, W. Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, William Dembski, Leon Brillouin. Middle Row: P. Debye, R.J. Marks, W.L. Bragg, H.A. Kramers, P.A.M. Dirac, A.H. Compton, L.V. De Broglie, M. Born, N. Bohr. Bottom Row: Richard Sternberg, Max Planck, Madam Curie, H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, M. Behe, D.R. Brooks, G. Gonzalez, J.Wells. Galapagos Finch, Ph.D. DDS, Vice President of Education for The BRITES, did not attend the meeting. He noted "If someone pollutes their science with a belief in a Creator, their theory is wrong. There is no reason to even look at it. Even A. Einstein." Nobel Laureate Ernest Rutherford agreed about the uselessness of the the theory of A. Einstein. Rutherford responded "The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine." Noted scientist and Nobel Laureate, Robert Millikan, agreed. "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." Since truth in science is determined by consensus, the theories of A. Einstein are clearly wrong. Not all attendees embraced the idea of religon. W. Heisenberg, when directly asked his opinion, said he was uncertain...

	2008.04.12  22.57 Read, and Be Enlightened http://www.nrapublications.org/AC/index.html

	2008.04.08  08.11 Received in Email Shotgun preteen vs. illegal alien Home Invaders : Butte, Montana November 5, 2007 Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun. Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest. Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news........an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself......against two murderous, illegal immigrants......and she wins, she is still alive. Now that is Gun Control ! Thought for the day: Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"

	2008.04.05  20.30 Civil War? Quesada, you suck cheese. Nothing has appalled or enraged me in the comics industry so much as Marvel's latest upraised middle finger to its own fans: the Marvel Civil War. For those in the geekopolis who have spent the last year stranded on a desert island, Civil War was a a multi-book crossover that pitted pretty much the entire Marvel Lineup against itself. The premise was that, due to a theatrically tragic superhero-supervillain disaster (a low-grade rookie team of superheros tries to capture some outstanding warrants for a reality TV episode, and one of the villains sets off an explosion that blasts a school full of children to kibble), Tony Stark (Iron Man), who has been vocally opposed to "untrained amateur" superheros working unsupervised, manages to convince the US Government to start a Superhuman Registration Act. Which rubs the tummies of all the right fretting parents' groups, and strokes all the right egos in the halls of power, and is enacted. Unfortunately some of the provisions of this Superhuman Registration Act include immediate disclosure of every superhero's secret identity, effective 'enlistment' (enslavement for life) of all registered heroes to the US military, and indefinite imprisonment--- without trial, parole, appeal, or legal representation--- of any super who resists, or even who "performs superhuman activity" (you know, stopping crimes, saving lives) without explicit government license. Captain America, being observant enough to notice that this violates pretty much the entire Bill of Rights in alphabetical order, organizes an underground resistance of heroes. Iron Man, with Mr. Fantastic acting as his flunky, begins organizing a paramilitary government force composed of superhuman convicted killers to round up the resisting superheroes-- dead, or alive; designing weapons to steal various superheroes' powers; and building a vast extradimensional prison to hold all the "criminals" his new law has created. And there was much Kung Fu Fighting. The ending, as you can guess already, sucks. Tony Stark, the Iron Fascist, wins; Captain America surrenders, is led off in chains, and is SHOT by a sniper, and the Brave New World of "properly licensed" superheros on a leash is established as Marvel Universe fiat.... accompanied by dozens of other wall-banger subplots, continuity desecrations, and character development regressions as the Marvel Bullpen turns around, squats, and craps all over its own fanbase. It's one thing to be appalled by the spasmodic flood-surges of crap that go gushing through the sewer of mediocrity that is the Marvel and DC comics companies.... but this is a whole new scale of unflushable King Turd. It has left me in tooth-grinding fury, and alternating between fantasies of firing every editor and CEO in Marvel, Inc., and literally firing them from their own office building rooftop with a catapault. Not just because they took Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, and half of the rest of their superhero stable and turned them into tools. Not just because they utterly pussified Captain America so badly that he, a veteran of World War II, surrenders because he sees the bad guys have wrecked a bunch of real estate trying to bring him in. Not just because they killed him off. Not just because they took this mega event as an opportunity to turn still MORE of their stable of characters into "grim, gritty, angst ridden" self obsessed whiny emo pukes. Not just because what they didn't turn "grim and gritty," they regressed--- undoing in some cases twenty years of character development. NOT just because the more froth-lipped Bush Derangement Syndrome liberals in their bullpen tried to crowbar a Warped Aesop "parallel" to the real life War on Terror into the plot--- though that alone was enough to make me want to take a tire iron to Joe Quesada's hollow gourd of a head. No, what gags and appalls me is that when confronted with the almost unanimous, one-sided rage of the fandom over the actions of Iron Man's side, the editors and "artistic masterminds" behind the whole thing admitted they didn't understand it--- they thought that Iron Man and Captain America both had equally valid sides to the argument. Do you get that? They openly stated that they pretty much think Tony Stark had the right idea. They basically, openly admitted that the following is what they consider to be a rational argument: Yes, that's clipped from one of the Civil War crossover comics. Captain America's dialogue is edited; the self-righteous news reporter's monologue is not. These people actually think this way. And they can't even comprehend why anyone would see anything wrong with the idea of enslaving "troublesome" individuals or even incarcerating them for the crime of rescuing people and saving lives without a government license. Yet their FANS, whom they are heroically ignoring in their brave march into bankruptcy and cultural dissolution, can and do "get it." And more than one has spelled it out for them, too--- per the following, edited for language: This was created by another irate fan who was galled at the Civil War concept as well. In the original version, Captain America, the avatar of American freedom and patriotism, just sits there like a penitent while the twentysomething news bimbo lectures him on his sins. It's a freaking disgrace when some slacker kid with cheeto-stained fingers and a copy of photoshop can spell out clearly what the professional, sophisticated and worldly owners and administrators of an American patriotic icon and a major cultural artery of our nation can't. Think about this; these media moguls sincerely think like this. And they make their living pumping this exact bilious tripe right into the bloodstream of American culture. They've damned themselves into artistic and cultural obscurity and oblivion; their appalling quality-of-product has all but guaranteed that the "mainstream comic book" will go the way of pulp novels and penny dreadfuls. But dear GOD help us, what untold levels of socially spread brain-rot they will leave behind! Back later; I have to go pee on my Quesada voodoo doll and set it on fire.

	2008.03.31  10.45 www.Expelledthemovie.com

	2008.03.31  10.44 "The spendthrifts who mangled America with the nightmare of double-digit inflation, record interest rates, unfair tax increases, too much regulation, credit controls, farm embargoes, gas lines, no-growth at home, weakness abroad, and phony excuses about 'malaise' are the last people who should be giving sermonettes about fairness and compassion... Believe me, you cannot create a desert, hand a person a cup of water, and call that compassion. You cannot pour billions of dollars into make-work jobs while destroying the economy that supports them and call that opportunity. And you cannot build up years of dependence on government and dare call that hope." ---Ronald Reagan (http://Reagan2020.US/) "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs---partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs." ---Booker T. Washington

	2008.03.29  11.57 And ye shall know the truth...

	2008.03.24  13.14 Oldies but goodies Videos--- all but one by fans. The one that sucks eggs is mine, of course :D

	2008.03.23  20.40 More of the same...

	2008.03.23  09.18 Apparently you think I'm exaggerating Apparently some of you people think I'm exaggerating when I say Mormonism is nothing more than the 18th Century equivalent of Scientology.... But no... the Mormon church is just another Christian denomination, right?

	2008.03.19  23.30 This is 31 flavors of awesome.

	2008.03.18  21.39 Can't.... Breathe..... Man, a day too late...

	2008.03.15  21.11 But But Saddam and 9-11 aren't connected, part the nth .....In fact, as I noted yesterday, the captured Iraqi documents show that Saddam Hussein funded at least two al-Qaeda groups, including Ayman al-Zawahiri’s group Egyptian Islamic Jihad. He also created and funded terrorist groups in Somalia in 1993 to attack the US troops there at the time. Another group which received funding, the Bahrain-based Army of Mohammad, received funding specifically because they intended to target America and Americans, with full knowledge that the AoM received its direction from Osama bin Laden....The full report shows clearly that Saddam Hussein had made himself one of the most significant sponsors of terrorism in the world.... http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/889pvpxc.asp?pg=1 http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/15/media-malfeasance-on-saddam-report/

	2008.03.10  15.02 A Thought To Consider If unhealthy private behavior--- obesity, smoking, etc.--- mean that those people will add to the "burden" on the costs of health care, isn't the REAL first question "Why is it that WE are paying for THESE people's medical bills?" I don't know about you, but if the hospital sends me someone else's medical bills, I tend to get rather upset and demand to know who screwed up the paperwork. If someone else's diet, exercise or other behavior is adversely affecting your pocketbook, maybe you ought to focus on fixing the billing system first.

	2008.03.09  17.04 I'm writing in Fred Thompson ...and if I wasn't before, I definitely am now. In the same pages, novelist Mark Helprin, a former adviser to Robert J. Dole's presidential campaign, savaged conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin for daring to speak out against McCain. "Rather than playing recklessly with electoral politics by sabotaging their own party," he wrote, "each of these compulsive talkers might be a tad less self-righteous, look to the long run, discipline himself, suck it up, and be a man." ...For 20 years, the moderate establishment of the Republican Party has told conservatives to sit down, shut up and do as we're told. History shows that sometimes we bite the bullet. But not always. I absolutely guarantee that this year we cannot be taken for granted. This is a movement fed up with betrayals, and they've come one after the other. These arrogant millionaire-brat elephant-suit geezers are smug in the certainty that conservatives have "nowhere else to go." Sorry, but I'm NOT gonna be one of the GOP's "house niggers." I will sooner ROT than give any wretched RINO one of my votes. This is my slogan from now one, and it's a slogan that should become a MANTRA for anyone with any conservative values: The only wasted vote is one given to someone who takes your support for granted.</i>

	2008.03.09  10.39 Oh, WHAT a SURPRISE http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher+Basic+Greenhouse+Equations+Totally+Wrong/article10973.htm Summation: the "runaway greenhouse effect" is based off of eighty year old equations--- that left off a vital chunk near the end of the formula. KISS MY GRITS, GREENIES.

	2008.03.07  07.47 "There can be no just compensation in a forced sale. The just price is the one a buyer and seller freely agree on. What makes a transaction legitimate is not compensation but consent." Sheldon Richman, Editor, Ideas on Liberty

	2008.02.28  16.01 Survey type question what do you consider, over the course of your life, to be the worst changes in superhero characters? Speaking overall, or individual heroes that have been retconned or reedited.

	2008.02.26  15.29 “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, American socialist

	2008.02.23  20.29 It takes a profound distortion of logic to imagine that civilization, law, and morality could arise spontaneously from the anarchistic, selfish, and homicidal mosh-pit of a Darwinian cosmos.