Harrolds.Blogspot.com: September 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

values - SHARE WITH THE YOUNG GENERATION: Booker T, Washington's High School Graduation

From: jimmy Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 OMG!!! Beautiful!!

ALL I CAN SAY IS ?WOOOOOOOW?! PLEASE SEE VIDEO LINK.

VALIDICTORIAN SPEECH AT BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL

http://www.apsk12.org/media/VIDEO_PAGES/BTW_Val2010.html

video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Wcr82UOsw

ethonocentric - "Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black"

article source: http://ephphatha-poetry.blogspot.com/2010/04/imagine-if-tea-party-was-black-tim-wise.html

Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black" - Tim Wise

Let's play a game, shall we? The name of the game is called "Imagine." The way it's played is simple: we'll envision recent happenings in the news, but then change them up a bit. Instead of envisioning white people as the main actors in the scenes we'll conjure - the ones who are driving the action - we'll envision black folks or other people of color instead. The object of the game is to imagine the public reaction to the events or incidents, if the main actors were of color, rather than white. Whoever gains the most insight into the workings of race in America, at the end of the game, wins.

So let's begin.

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia, just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters "the black protesters" - spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn't like were enforced by the government? Would these protester - these black protesters with guns - be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that's what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation's capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country's political leaders if the need arose.

Imagine that white members of Congress, while walking to work, were surrounded by thousands of angry black people, one of whom proceeded to spit on one of those congressmen for not voting the way the black demonstrators desired. Would the protesters be seen as merely patriotic Americans voicing their opinions, or as an angry, potentially violent, and even insurrectionary mob? After all, this is what white Tea Party protesters did recently in Washington.

Imagine that a rap artist were to say, in reference to a white president: "He's a piece of shit and I told him to suck on my machine gun." Because that's what rocker Ted Nugent said recently about President Obama.

Imagine that a prominent mainstream black political commentator had long employed an overt bigot as Executive Director of his organization, and that this bigot regularly participated in black separatist conferences, and once assaulted a white person while calling them by a racial slur. When that prominent black commentator and his sister - who also works for the organization - defended the bigot as a good guy who was misunderstood and "going through a tough time in his life" would anyone accept their excuse-making? Would that commentator still have a place on a mainstream network? Because that's what happened in the real world, when Pat Buchanan employed as Executive Director of his group, America's Cause, a blatant racist who did all these things, or at least their white equivalents: attending white separatist conferences and attacking a black woman while calling her the n-word.

Imagine that a black radio host were to suggest that the only way to get promoted in the administration of a white president is by "hating black people," or that a prominent white person had only endorsed a white presidential candidate as an act of racial bonding, or blamed a white president for a fight on a school bus in which a black kid was jumped by two white kids, or said that he wouldn't want to kill all conservatives, but rather, would like to leave just enough "living fossils" as he called them - so we will never forget what these people stood for. After all, these are things that Rush Limbaugh has said, about Barack Obama's administration, Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama, a fight on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois in which two black kids beat up a white kid, and about liberals, generally.

Imagine that a black pastor, formerly a member of the U.S. military, were to declare, as part of his opposition to a white president's policies, that he was ready to "suit up, get my gun, go to Washington, and do what they trained me to do." This is, after all, what Pastor Stan Craig said recently at a Tea Party rally in Greenville, South Carolina.

Imagine a black radio talk show host gleefully predicting a revolution by people of color if the government continues to be dominated by the rich white men who have been "destroying" the country, or if said radio personality were to call Christians or Jews non-humans, or say that when it came to conservatives, the best solution would be to "hang 'em high." And what would happen to any congressional representative who praised that commentator for "speaking common sense" and likened his hate talk to 'American values?' After all, those are among the things said by radio host and best-selling author Michael Savage, predicting white revolution in the face of multiculturalism, or said by Savage about Muslims and liberals, respectively. And it was Congressman Culbertson, from Texas, who praised Savage in that way, despite his hateful rhetoric.

Imagine a black political commentator suggesting that the only thing the guy who flew his plane into the Austin, Texas IRS building did wrong was not blowing up Fox News instead. This is, after all, what Anne Coulter said about Tim McVeigh, when she noted that his only mistake was not blowing up the New York Times.

Imagine that a popular black liberal website posted comments about the daughter of a white president, calling her "typical redneck trash," or a "whore" whose mother entertains her by "making monkey sounds." After all that's comparable to what conservatives posted about Malia Obama on freerepublic.com last year, when they referred to her as "ghetto trash."

Imagine that black protesters at a large political rally were walking around with signs calling for the lynching of their congressional enemies. Because that's what white conservatives did last year, in reference to Democratic party leaders in Congress.

In other words, imagine that even one-third of the anger and vitriol currently being hurled at President Obama, by folks who are almost exclusively white, were being aimed, instead, at a white president, by people of color. How many whites viewing the anger, the hatred, the contempt for that white president would then wax eloquent about free speech, and the glories of democracy? And how many would be calling for further crackdowns on thuggish behavior, and investigations into the radical agendas of those same people of color?

To ask any of these questions is to answer them. Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the luxury of seeing themselves as prototypically American engage in it. When the dangerous and dark "other" does so, however, it isn't viewed as normal or natural, let alone patriotic. Which is why Rush Limbaugh could say, this past week, that the Tea Parties are the first time since the Civil War that ordinary, common Americans stood up for their rights: a statement that erases the normalcy and "American-ness" of blacks in the civil rights struggle, not to mention women in the fight for suffrage and equality, working people in the fight for better working conditions, and LGBT folks as they struggle to be treated as full and equal human beings.

And this, my friends, is what white privilege is all about. The ability to threaten others, to engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric without consequence, to be viewed as patriotic and normal no matter what you do, and never to be feared and despised as people of color would be, if they tried to get away with half the shit we do, on a daily basis.

Game Over.

Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S. Wise has spoken in 48 states, on over 400 college campuses, and to community groups around the nation. Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide, and has trained physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. His latest book is called Between Barack and a Hard Place. Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., and has been called, "One of the most brilliant, articulate and courageous critics of white privilege in the nation," by best-selling author and professor Michael Eric Dyson, of Georgetown University. Wise has spoken in 48 states, and on over 400 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the Law Schools at Yale and Columbia, and has spoken to community groups around the nation. Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide, and has trained physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. He has also trained corporate, government, entertainment, military and law enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions, and has served as a consultant for plaintiff's attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State.

www.TimWise.org

Friday, September 24, 2010

2010 - Senator Harry Reid: Our Government Fixing our Problems! Saving Jobs

From: piloto Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010

What About the Jobs Killed by "Saving" Anderson Dairy?

      Sen. Harry Reid today which claims to have saved jobs at the Anderson Dairy, Assemblyman Ed Goedhart ( R-Amargosa Valley ) released the following statement:

      Las Vegas from the federal milk marketing order referenced in the ad.

      I manage the Ponderosa Dairy, Nevada's largest dairy, which milks over 9,000 cows twice a day.  We produce 12 semi-tankers of milk each day, or one every two hours, and directly employ 145 employees while indirectly contributing to the employment of over 1,000 Nevadans.  Our economic output for Nevada is over $90 million.

      When Sen. Reid carved out an exemption for Anderson Dairy - which, by the way, milks NO cows - he allowed cheaper "overbase" milk - drinking milk produced in excess of government caps - to flow into Nevada from California, and Utah, which allows Anderson Dairy to pad their profit margin.

      That's a great deal for Anderson Dairy; however, Ponderosa Dairy - an actual production dairy, not a processing-only dairy - now has to truck its milk all the way to California in order to get the full "Class 1" allowable price for drinking milk (as opposed to milk used for making cheese and butter.) Then some of our same trucks pick up cheap overbase milk from California and bring it to Anderson Dairy in Las Vegas .

      Yes, you read that correctly.

      Ponderosa Dairy now has to ship its milk to California, while California ships its cheaper overbase milk to Nevada.  We call it the "Milk Loop" and it eats up over a million gallons of diesel fuel, costing us millions of dollars a year in higher trucking costs.  The Ponderosa is only 80 miles from, but now we have to ship our milk 280 miles to southern California.

      Because of the special deal Sen. Reid cut for Anderson Dairy - the Milk Money Compact - our business is now at a competitive disadvantage with others in the milk producing businesses in our region.  As such, we shelved all expansion plans in Nevada and instead invested over $100 million in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas where we now directly employ hundreds of workers and generate much-needed tax revenue and economic activity which otherwise would have benefited Nevada.

      When a rock is thrown into a pond, don't look at just the splash.  Also look at the ripples that extend across the entire pond.  In this case, the jobs "saved" at Anderson Dairy were at the expense of thousands of other jobs in Nevada .

      Government jobs are financed by taxes levied on the backs of private citizens and private businesses.   And when government, at the behest of elected officials such as Sen. Reid, picks winners by carving out special exemptions in the law for favored businesses, it has a ripple effect that costs all of us in the form of market inefficiencies and reduced competition.

      The government can't give anything to anybody - including Anderson Dairy - it first doesn't take away from somebody else.  For every winner as a result of Harry Reid's deal-making, there are a lot more losers.

      Sen. Reid can claim that no one can do more for Nevada 'til the cows come home.  But the fact is, whether it's the Louisiana Purchase, the Cornhusker Kickback or the Milk Money Compact, other people continue to pay for what Sen. Reid does for a chosen few.   And it stinks worse than anything you'll ever smell from the back end of one of my cows.

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2nd Amendment - San Francisco To Turn Guns Over To Big Brother

From: ConservativeActionAlerts Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 Subject: San Francisco To Turn Guns Over To Big Brother

San Francisco To Turn Guns Over To Big Brother

Your Gun Is Next In Line

Gun-haters in San Francisco are scheming to force citizens to register their firearms under the miscroscope of Big Brother. The proposed legislation will track the sale and whereabouts of every firearm in the city. If San Francisco suceeds in choking American citizens with mandatory gun registration, anti-gun activists across the country will push for gun registration in EVERY SINGLE STATE. Your state could be next! We all know gun registration is the first step to gun confisgation!

It's no coincidence the anti-gun zealots are proposing their freedom supressing legislation the same time that the Gun Rights Policy Conference is being held in San Francisco on September 24-26. The anti-Second Amendment gang is sending a strong message that they want to completely obliterate our gun rights.

I guess San Francisco has learned nothing from the failure of the proposed 2005 gun ban. Uber-Liberal, Michela Aliota-Pier is working closely with the City Attorneys Office to craft "gun safety legislation" erronesouly saying it will help defend Americans against crime.

The nut-job notion that stricter gun laws will crack down on crime is a Progressive pipe dream. Firearms are used defensively roughly 2.5 million times per year, more than four times as many as criminal uses. This amounts to 2,575 lives protected for every life lost to a gun. Stricter gun laws clearly do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO LOWER CRIME RATES.

Legal guns kill more crooks than cops do! Despite heaps of evidence to the contrary, the Liberal elite keep beating a dead horse by claiming gun control will curb crime. Well, I guess we can't be too surprised: The Liberal idelogues have a long history of alining themselves with self-created pet causes. Just look at global warming.

ANTI-GUN NUTS WANT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS TO BE TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS

There is no reason to make everyday citizens register their guns with the corruptocrats in Washington. Criminals will never register guns. In 2009, over 17,000 innocent Americans were brutally murdered. I find it hard to believe murderers will be lining up to register their illegally obtained firearms. It is outrageous that people who simply want to use a firearm for self-protection are treated just like the criminals the gun-grabbers claim registration will protect them from.

THE RECESSION HAS INCREASED CRIME YET THE GUN-GRABBERS
WANT TO RENDER US COMPLETLEY DEFENSLESS IN THIS TIME OF URGENGY

Thanks to the Recession, crime rates across the country are soaring. Over 15 million people are jobless. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that when 15 million people can't find work to pay the bills, a substancial number of them will resort to crime. Every Recession since the 1950's has resulted in a surge of criminal activity, especially property crime and robbery.

SAN FRANCISCO PUNISHES HONEST AMERICANS FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY

CCRKBA Chairman and Executive Director Alan M. Gottlieb remarked, "It would seem to me that with the state's economy in tatters, cutbacks in public safety budgets and federal courts mandating that more criminals must be released from prisons that the city would not make it harder for citizens to defend themselves. But in San Francisco, it is politically fashionable to penalize honest people for the misbehavior of the criminal element. It makes you wonder whose side the government is on."

Get Your Sticker
STOP the UN Small Arms Treaty

IF THE SAN FRANCISCO GUN REGISTRY PASSES
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL BE SITTING DUCKS FOR VIOLENT CRIMINALS

Registering guns is the first step in an orchestrated campaign to eventually strip Americans of their Second Amendment Rights. The biggest obstacle standing in the way of the Liberal elite is guns. Our Founding Fathers gave us our Second Amendment Rights to protect us from government tyranny. Owning a firearm (for now) protects us from the total abuse and oppression from the gangsters in Washington who want TOTAL CONTROL over the public.

Obama and his limousine Liberals have already persecuted Americans by forcing us to accept ObamaCare, the "Stimulus," massive bailouts, and soon Cap & Tax. It is unfathomable to even think what the next legislative bomb will be that the Beltway bureucrats will drop on America. Our freedom is in jeopardy from big government. Once the anti-freedom conspirators have our guns it will be doomsday.

TELL THE LIBERAL ELITES IN CALIFORNIA THAT WE WILL NOT CONTINUE TO BE ABUSED BY OUR GOVERNMENT!

CCRKBA has vowed to slap San Francisco with a lawsuit if they don't back down with their anti-freedom agenda. No matter what the gun haters in San Francisco do, CCRKBA will be on the front lines contesting this assault on our Constitution. But we can't win this struggle alone. The lawyer's fees and expenses will be exorbitant. We need the support from dedicated patriots to help us win this battle.

YOU CAN'T PUT A PRICE ON YOUR FREEDOM!

DON'T LET THE DC BUREUCRATS LEAVE OUR DEMOCRACY DEFENSELESS

THIS IS NOT A FIGHT WE CAN AFFORD TO LOSE

Together, we can preserve the Constitutional rights our Founding Fathers intended our people to have forever. For more information about CCRKBA go to www.CCRKBA.org

Thank you. I know I can count on you.

Sincerely, Alan Gottlieb, Chairman - Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

If you prefer to donate by check, please mail to: The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 12500 NE Tenth Place, Dept Code 4682, Bellevue, Washington 98005 -- For our projects to be successful, we must count on the voluntary financial support from individuals like you who care. Your contribution of $20 or $25 is urgently needed today. If you can afford to send $50 or $100 or more it would truly be a godsend. SELECT HERE TO DONATE NOW The rights you save may be your own! Remember, protecting our freedom is not inexpensive. But then, it's impossible to put a price tag on freedom.
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States. Contributions are not tax deductible. The Citizens Committee can be reached by phone at (425) 454-4911, on the Internet at www.ccrkba.org or by email to InformationRequest@ccrkba.org

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war, the long war - Brigitte Gabriel on Islam

From: piloto Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010

Brigitte Gabriel gave this speech at Duke University. Also, In today's world, this has to be considered. EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO READ THIS!

Brigitte Gabriel

Editor's Note: Below are selected excerpts from Brigitte Gabriel's speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington D.C.

"We gather here today to share information and knowledge. Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or armament or disposition of military forces. The most important element of intelligence has to be understanding the mindset and intention of the enemy. The West has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and denial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against innocent victims in the name of Allah.
I was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying me under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to survive, as the perpetrators shouted, 'Allah Akbar!' My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. At 10 years old, I learned the meaning of the word 'infidel.'

I had a crash course in survival. Not in the Girl Scouts, but in a bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch darkness, freezing cold, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. At the age of 13, dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be slaughtered. By the age of 20, I had buried most of my friends--killed by Muslims. We were not Americans living in New York, or Britons in London. We were Arab Christians living in Lebanon .

As a victim of Islamic terror, I was amazed when I saw Americans waking up on September 12, 2001, and asking themselves 'Why do they hate us?' The psychoanalyst experts were coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend the Muslim World. But if America and the West were paying attention to the Middle East they would not have had to ask the question. Simply put, they hate us because we are defined in their eyes by one simple word: 'infidels.'

Under the banner of Islam 'la, ilaha illa Allah, muhammad rasoulu Allah,' (None is god except Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) they murdered Jewish children in Israel, massacred Christians in Lebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Syria, Hindus in India, and expelled almost 900,000 Jews from Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern infidels paid the price then. Now infidels worldwide are paying the price for indifference and shortsightedness.

Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn't buy protection. It earns one disrespect and loathing in the enemy's eyes. Yet apathy is the weapon by which the West is committing suicide. Political correctness forms the shackles around our ankles, by which Islamist's are leading us to our demise.

America and the West are doomed to failure in this war unless they stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam. You hear about Cahaba and Salafi Islam as the only extreme form of Islam. All the other Muslims, supposedly, are wonderful moderates. Closer to the truth are the pictures of the irrational eruption of violence in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed printed by a Danish newspaper. From burning embassies, to calls to butcher those who mock Islam, to warnings that the West be prepared for another holocaust, those pictures have given us a glimpse into the real face of the enemy. News pictures and video of these events represent a canvas of hate decorated by different nationalities who share one common ideology of hate, bigotry and intolerance derived from one source: authentic Islam. An Islam that is awakening from centuries of slumber to re-ignite its wrath against the infidel and dominate the world. An Islam which has declared 'Intifada' on the West.

America and the West can no longer afford to lay in their lazy state of overweight ignorance. The consequences of this mental disease are starting to attack the body, and if they don't take the necessary steps now to control it, death will be knocking soon. If you want to understand the nature of the enemy we face, visualize a tapestry of snakes. They slither and they hiss, and they would eat each other alive, but they will unite in a hideous mass to achieve their common goal of imposing Islam on the world.

This is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are fighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering basic human instincts. An ideology that can turn a mother into a launching pad of death. A perfect example is a recently elected Hamas official in the Palestinian Territories who raves in heavenly joy about sending her three sons to death and offering the ones who are still alive for the cause. It is an ideology that is capable of offering highly educated individuals such as doctors and lawyers far more joy in attaining death than any respect and stature life in society is ever capable of giving them.

The United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic hatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East ring with shrill prayers and monotonous chants calling death, destruction and damnation down on America and its people. The radical Islamist deeds have been as vile as their words. Since the Iran hostage crisis, more than three thousand Americans have died in a terror campaign almost unprecedented in its calculated cruelty along with thousands of other citizens worldwide. Even the Nazis did not turn their own children into human bombs, and then rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of their victims. This intentional, indiscriminate and wholesale murder of innocent American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of Islam.

America cannot effectively defend itself in this war unl ess and until the American people understand the nature of the enemy that we face. Even after 9/11 there are those who say that we must engage our terrorist enemies, that we must address their grievances. Their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of speech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just one prophet. It is the respect we instill in our children towards all religions. It is the equality we grant each other as human beings sharing a planet and striving to make the world a better place for all humanity. Their grievance is the kindness and respect a man shows a woman, the justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy. Their grievance cannot be answered by an apology for who or what we are.

Our mediocre attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in the last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened our enemy to launch a full scale attack on the very freedoms we cherish in their effort to impose their values and way of life on our civilization.

If we don't wake up and challenge our Muslim community to take action against the terrorists within it, if we don't believe in ourselves as Americans and in the standards we should hold every patriotic American to, we are going to pay a price for our delusion. For the sake of our children and our country, we must wake up and take action. In the face of a torrent of hateful invective and terrorist murder, America 's learning curve since the Iran hostage crisis is so shallow that it is almost flat. The longer we lay supine, the more difficult it will be to stand erect.

This is all coming true. A non-patriot is President of this great country. He has openly admitted his Muslim roots and his sympathy for all Muslims. How can this happen? APATHY, that's how!!!

Brigitte Gabriel is an expert on the Middle East conflict and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject. She's the former news anchor of World News for Middle East television and the founder of AmericanCongressforTruth.com

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o'bamacide - Images you’ll never see on the evening news!

From: Gospel of Life Ministries Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 (http://www.PriestsForLife.org)

52,000,000!

That's the number of babies killed in surgical abortions in the USA alone since 1973.

52 MILLION ... and counting!

In fact, by the time you finish reading this email, another 12 babies will be dead. And that death toll is going to continue to mount unless YOU do something to help stop it. Which is why I've sent you this important email. The only way we can rip the mask of anonymity off the terrible horror of abortion is if we put images of the mangled bodies of innocent babies in front of our fellow Americans. That's because ... America will not end abortion until America sees abortion!

Make no mistake. "Big Media" has teamed up with "Big Abortion" to censor the truth. They refuse to show Americans the human carnage that comes with every abortion! But with your help today, Gospel of Life Ministries is going to break through that wall of silence and expose the truth about abortion for everyone to see.
Specifically, I want every man, woman and, yes, child, too, to see what "choice" really means.

To see the ugly truth for yourself, just click here: http://www.priestsforlife.org/resources/monica/mm4.htm

BUT LET ME WARN YOU: The pictures you will see are graphic images of what happens in the violence of abortion! They are shockingly real!

So shocking and so real that most media - including those who say they agree with us - claim they are "too disturbing" to air on television or be printed in newspapers.
The reality is that pro-abortion people won't show Americans these pictures because they know they are so shocking and so repulsive that Americans will demand an end to the slaughter! And the rest are more concerned about preventing controversy than about preventing bloodshed. But the fact of the matter is that the photographs I'm asking you to help Gospel of Life Ministries show to our fellow Americans are crucial to stopping abortion.

They show irrefutably that the first trimester baby - that so-called "mass of tissue" abortion supporters are always talking about - is a real 'baby'! What's more, rather than just shouting the conclusion that abortion must be stopped - both in law and in fact - it provides the facts that compel that conclusion.

And if you're not sure you can or want to help, then click here and take a look at the true meaning of "choice." Since the media won't show that truth, we - the People of Life - must do it ourselves.

And the reason we have to do this is simply this: We cannot change public policy until we change public opinion.

Whether through cameras or carvings, human beings have always learned more effectively through their eyes than through their ears. Reformers know that the best and most effective way to change public opinion is to SHOW - in pictures - the injustice and brutality of whatever policy it is that the reformer seeks to change. For example: It wasn't until the news media published PICTURES taken in Nazi concentration camps that Americans fully understood the evil of Adolph Hitler and his Third Reich. Same with the Vietnam war. Night after night the news media flooded American living rooms with PICTURES of mutilated children and the body bags carrying dead soldiers. Wearied of those graphic images of war, the nation demanded an end. So, too, with America's civil rights movement. A 14-year-old African American Emmett Till whistled at a white woman. For that "crime" he was beaten and shot to death and his killers set free. At the funeral, his mother instructed that his casket be left open so the world could see "what they did to my boy." The published PICTURE of Emmett Till's beaten and battered corpse changed the nation! Do you recognize the common element in all three of those reform movements? I can tell you in one word: PICTURES!

That's because of the old adage: "A picture is worth a thousand words." Well, our pictures of the butchered and mutilated bodies of tiny babies are worth more than a mere thousand words! Without question ... our pictures have the power to end abortion!

But only if our fellow Americans SEE them!

Tragically, the pro-life cause is the first social reform movement in our nation's history that "Big Media" has turned its collective back on. Instead of working to end the injustice of killing innocent babies in abortion, "Big Media" has allied itself with "Big Abortion" and refuses to show Americans the deadly and brutal reality of abortion. Which again is why it falls to us to SHOW our fellow Americans the truth and sheer brutality of what "choice" really means.

And that is precisely what Gospel of Life Ministries is doing through ... Our "Is This What You Mean?" Campaign, by which the word of the abortionists themselves challenge people to think about what they mean when they say "abortion." Our multi-part video series in which we visually explain the ways abortionists butcher and kill babies at all stages of development! -- Medically-accurate illustrations of what takes place in the two most common abortion killings - suction curettage and D&E (Dilation and Evacuation) Literally hundreds of graphic images of the mangled corpses of babies brutally slaughtered by abortionists. Audio of late-term abortionist Martin Haskell describing a so-called "partial birth abortion" ... including the shocking tape of people applauding him! Our DVD entitled: "The PROCEDURE: The Horror of Abortion Exposed" A powerful new video entitled: "Biology of Prenatal Development" that we are actively working to get into every parish, school, and pregnancy center in America ... and that's just for starters!

In addition, Gospel of Life Ministries has partnered with other pro-life organizations - most notably Gregg Cunningham and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform - to put the images of aborted babies on the sides of panel trucks and drive them through the streets of cities all across the country, and fly them with tow-banner airplanes!

As you can see, Gospel of Life Ministries is doing whatever it takes to unmask the ugly face of abortion and SHOW America what "choice" really means.

Now I'll be the first to admit that this strategy and these images disturb a lot of people ... including many pro-life individuals.

But what should be most disturbing to all Americans - and especially to every pro-life American - is what takes place inside an abortion mill! Tragically, and thanks to the media's refusal to report the truth, most Americans don't believe the child in the womb is a human person. That being the case, we must wake them up and confront them with the true horror of the abortion "procedure". And one of the best ways I know how to do that is to SHOW them using pictures of the bloodied and mangled bodies of the dead babies! Of this much I am absolutely certain: Disturbing or not, BY GOD'S GRACE, the pictures are EFFECTIVE! I have countless stories I could tell you to verify that claim.

Today I'm counting on you to help me "disturb" the sleeping consciences of our fellow Americans. Please join us.

Sincerely, Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries

P.S. I still have posted on our website the letter the late Bishop Kenneth J. Povish wrote when he found out about this campaign to SHOW America pictures of what "choice" really means. In that letter, Bishop Povish wrote: "There is no excuse under the sun for keeping secret what is the most common surgery in America today." The good bishop was right! And with your help today we'll reveal the ugly "secret" the abortionists are frantically hiding from our fellow Americans.

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LifeNews.com Pro-Life News Report 9/24/10 #4987

From: LifeNews.com Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010

For pro-life news updated throughout the day, visit LifeNews.com.

Current Headlines

• Pro-Life Groups Applaud GOP Pledge Against Tax-Funded Abortions, ObamaCare
• Senate Defeats Motion to Allow Vote on Disclose Act Hurting Pro-Life Free Speech
• Senate Democrats Approve Pro-Abortion Obama Judges on Party-Line Votes
• Abortion Practitioner Brigham Accused of More Violations by New Jersey Officials
• Tea Party Activists Worried About Economy Should Consider the Cost of Abortion
• Abortion "Doctor" in Florida Arrested and Jailed for Avoiding Criminal Trial
• Sarah Palin Helps Pro-Life Group raise Funds for Television Ads Against Abortion
• New York Senate Polls Show Pro-Life DioGuardi Catching Pro-Abortion Gillibrand
• Missouri Poll Shows Pro-Life Roy Blunt Clearly Leading Carnahan for Senate
• Minnesota Pro-Life Group Endorses Tim Tinglestad for State Supreme Court
• Doctors to UN: Reduce Maternal Mortality by Helping Women, Not Backing Abortion
• U. California Wants to Stop Lawsuit Against Obama's Embryonic Research Funding
• UN Forced to Accept Lower Maternal Mortality Numbers Without More Abortions
• 40 Days for Life Prayer Campaign Motivating Pro-Life Advocates in Several States

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

war, the long war - Opinion Today: NY Times-The Meaning of The Qur'an

From: jimmy Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 Subject: Fw: Opinion Today: NY Times-The Meaning of The Qur'an

The Meaning of the Koran

by Robert Wright on culture, politics and world affairs., September 14, 2010, 9:00 pm

Tags: jihad, sacred texts, The Koran

Test your religious literacy:

Which sacred text says that Jesus is the "word" of God? a) the Gospel of John; b) the Book of Isaiah; c) the Koran.

The correct answer is the Koran. But if you guessed the Gospel of John you get partial credit because its opening passage — "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God" — is an implicit reference to Jesus. In fact, when Muhammad described Jesus as God's word, he was no doubt aware that he was affirming Christian teaching.

Extra-credit question: Which sacred text has this to say about the Hebrews: God, in his "prescience," chose "the children of Israel … above all peoples"? I won't bother to list the choices, since you've probably caught onto my game by now; that line, too, is in the Koran.

I highlight these passages in part for the sake of any self-appointed guardians of Judeo-Christian civilization who might still harbor plans to burn the Koran. I want them to be aware of everything that would go up in smoke.
But I should concede that I haven't told the whole story. Even while calling Jesus the word of God — and "the Messiah" — the Koran denies that he was the son of God or was himself divine. And, though the Koran does call the Jews God's chosen people, and sings the praises of Moses, and says that Jews and Muslims worship the same God, it also has anti-Jewish, and for that matter anti-Christian, passages.

The regrettable parts of the Koran — the regrettable parts of any religious scripture — don't have to matter.

This darker side of the Koran, presumably, has already come to the attention of would-be Koran burners and, more broadly, to many of the anti-Muslim Americans whom cynical politicians like Newt Gingrich are trying to harness and multiply. The other side of the Koran — the part that stresses interfaith harmony — is better known in liberal circles.

As for people who are familiar with both sides of the Koran — people who know the whole story — well, there may not be many of them. It's characteristic of contemporary political discourse that the whole story doesn't come to the attention of many people.

Thus, there are liberals who say that "jihad" refers to a person's internal struggle to do what is right. And that's true. There are conservatives who say "jihad" refers to military struggle. That's true, too. But few people get the whole picture, which, actually, can be summarized pretty concisely:

photo: Bay Ismoyo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Reading the scripture.

The Koran's exhortations to jihad in the military sense are sometimes brutal in tone but are so hedged by qualifiers that Muhammad clearly doesn't espouse perpetual war against unbelievers, and is open to peace with them. (Here, for example, is my exegesis of the "sword verse," the most famous jihadist passage in the Koran.) The formal doctrine of military jihad — which isn't found in the Koran, and evolved only after Muhammad's death — does seem to have initially been about endless conquest, but was then subject to so much amendment and re-interpretation as to render it compatible with world peace. Meanwhile, in the hadith — the non-Koranic sayings of the Prophet — the tradition arose that Muhammad had called holy war the "lesser jihad" and said that the "greater jihad" was the struggle against animal impulses within each Muslim's soul.

Why do people tend to hear only one side of the story? A common explanation is that the digital age makes it easy to wall yourself off from inconvenient data, to spend your time in ideological "cocoons," to hang out at blogs where you are part of a choir that gets preached to.

Makes sense to me. But, however big a role the Internet plays, it's just amplifying something human: a tendency to latch onto evidence consistent with your worldview and ignore or downplay contrary evidence.

This side of human nature is generally labeled a bad thing, and it's true that it sponsors a lot of bigotry, strife and war. But it actually has its upside. It means that the regrettable parts of the Koran — the regrettable parts of any religious scripture — don't have to matter.

After all, the adherents of a given religion, like everyone else, focus on things that confirm their attitudes and ignore things that don't. And they carry that tunnel vision into their own scripture; if there is hatred in their hearts, they'll fasten onto the hateful parts of scripture, but if there's not, they won't. That's why American Muslims of good will can describe Islam simply as a religion of love. They see the good parts of scripture, and either don't see the bad or have ways of minimizing it.

So too with people who see in the Bible a loving and infinitely good God. They can maintain that view only by ignoring or downplaying parts of their scripture.

For example, there are those passages where God hands out the death sentence to infidels. In Deuteronomy, the Israelites are told to commit genocide — to destroy nearby peoples who worship the wrong Gods, and to make sure to kill all men, women and children. ("You must not let anything that breathes remain alive.")

As for the New Testament, there's that moment when Jesus calls a woman and her daughter "dogs" because they aren't from Israel. In a way that's the opposite of anti-Semitism — but not in a good way. And speaking of anti-Semitism, the New Testament, like the Koran, has some unflattering things to say about Jews.

Devoted Bible readers who aren't hateful ignore or downplay all these passages rather than take them as guidance. They put to good use the tunnel vision that is part of human nature.

All the Abrahamic scriptures have all kinds of meanings — good and bad — and the question is which meanings will be activated and which will be inert. It all depends on what attitude believers bring to the text. So whenever we do things that influence the attitudes of believers, we shape the living meaning of their scriptures. In this sense, it's actually within the power of non-Muslim Americans to help determine the meaning of the Koran. If we want its meaning to be as benign as possible, I recommend that we not talk about burning it. And if we want imams to fill mosques with messages of brotherly love, I recommend that we not tell them where they can and can't build their mosques.

Of course, the street runs both ways. Muslims can influence the attitudes of Christians and Jews and hence the meanings of their texts. The less threatening that Muslims seem, the more welcoming Christians and Jews will be, and the more benign Christianity and Judaism will be. (A good first step would be to bring more Americans into contact with some of the overwhelming majority of Muslims who are in fact not threatening.)

You can even imagine a kind of virtuous circle: the less menacing each side seems, the less menacing the other side becomes — which in turn makes the first side less menacing still, and so on; the meaning of the Abrahamic scriptures would, in a real sense, get better and better and better.

Lately, it seems, things have been moving in the opposite direction; the circle has been getting vicious. And it's in the nature of vicious circles that they're hard to stop, much less reverse. On the other hand, if, through the concerted effort of people of good will, you do reverse a vicious circle, the very momentum that sustained it can build in the other direction — and at that point the force will be with you.

Postscript: The quotations of the Koran come from Sura 4:171 (where Jesus is called God's word), and Sura 44:32 (where the "children of Israel" are lauded). I've used the Rodwell translation, but the only place the choice of translator matters is the part that says God presciently placed the children of Israel above all others. Other translations say "purposefully," or "knowingly." By the way, if you're curious as to the reason for the Koran's seeming ambivalence toward Christians and Jews:

By my reading, the Koran is to a large extent the record of Muhammad's attempt to bring all the area's Christians, Jews and Arab polytheists into his Abrahamic flock, and it reflects, in turns, both his bitter disappointment at failing to do so and the many theological and ritual overtures he had made along the way. (For a time Muslims celebrated Yom Kippur, and they initially prayed toward Jerusalem, not Mecca.) That the suras aren't ordered chronologically obscures Opinion.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

o'tax'n spend - Vote'm all out! Current European tax rates coming to Socialist USA

From: bb/em Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 Subject: Current European tax rates

Food for thought!

If you've started to wonder what the real costs of socialism are going to be, once the full program in these United States

hits your wallet, take a look at the table.

Current European tax rates:

United Kingdom
Income Tax: 50%
    VAT: 17.5%   TOTAL:  67.5%

France
Income Tax: 40%
    VAT: 19.6%   TOTAL: 59.6%

Greece
Income Tax: 40%
    VAT: 25%      TOTAL: 65%

Spain
Income Tax: 45%
   VAT: 16%      TOTAL: 61%

Portugal
Income Tax: 42%
    VAT: 20%      TOTAL: 62%

Sweden
Income Tax: 55%
    VAT: 25%      TOTAL: 80%

Norway
Income Tax: 54.3%
    VAT: 25%      TOTAL: 79.3%

Netherlands
Income Tax: 52%
    VAT: 19%      TOTAL: 71%

Denmark
Income Tax: 58%
    VAT: 25%      TOTAL: 83%

Finland
Income Tax: 53%
    VAT: 22%      TOTAL: 75%

As you digest these mind-boggling figures, keep in mind that in spite of these astronomical tax rates, these countries are still not financing their social welfare programs exclusively from tax revenues! They are deeply mired in public debt of gargantuan proportions. Greece has reached the point where its debt is so huge it is in imminent danger of defaulting. That is the reason the European economic community has intervened to bail them out. If youre following the financial news, you know Spain and Portugal are right behind Greece .

VAT Tax = Value Added Tax
The United States is now heading right down the same path. The VAT tax in the table is the national sales tax that Europeans pay.   Stay tuned because that is exactly what you can expect to see the administration proposing after the fall elections. The initial percentage in the United States isn't going to be anywhere near the outrageous numbers you now see in Europe.   Guess what, the current outrageous numbers in Europe didn't start out as outrageous either. They started out as miniscule right around the 1% or 2% where they will start out in the United States. Magically however, they ran up over the years to where they are now.   Expect the same thing here.

It is the notion that with hard work and perseverance, anybody can get ahead economically here.   Do you think that can ever happen with tax rates between 60% and 80%? Think again. With the government taking that percentage of your money, your life will be exactly like life in Europe. You will never be able to buy a home. You will never buy a car. You will never send your children to college. Let's not shuffle the battle cry of the socialists under the rug either. It's always the same cry. Equalize income. Spread the wealth to the poor (whoever they are.)   Level the economic playing field. Accomplish that and everything will be rosy.

Its time to take a really hard look at reality. Greece is a perfect example.   Despite the socialism system that has ruled this country for decades, with a 65% tax rate, they are drowning in public debt, would have defaulted without hundreds of billions in bailout money, and still. . .20% of their population lives in poverty. What has all that socialism money bought, besides ultimate power for the politicians running the show? Do you think these people are "free?"   They're not.   They are slaves to their economic "system."
   This is where we are going unless we throw the present Congress and Obama out.

Instead of spreading the wealth around, spread this around. It might wake some people up.

Impeach o'illegal - border war: The real story of Arizona! (Remember in November)

From: jlp Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010

This article is readable but not edited. It's scary to see how our US government, Obama, and the DoJ is ignoring the border problems. The whole bunch of them should be impeached for malfeasance.

The real story of Arizona

Hi, The real story of Arizona — and the border.
      This speaks for its self.
      Straight from the source.
      According to the Arizona Daily Star, Ed Ashurst's 53,000 acre ranch lies to the east of the ranchof Bob Krentz, who was killed on his ranch on March 27, 2010.
July 28th, 2010 y Ed Ashurst, Apache Arizona
      I believe storytelling to be an art form, certainly verbal record is the oldest form ofrecording history and recognized by historians worldwide There is an old adage among those who love to tell a good tale, "Never let the truth get in theway of a good story." And yet there are times when the truth is even morefantastic than exaggeration. What I write here is the truth, plain and simple.
      I reside on,and manage a large cattle ranch in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. I've been here for13 years and in that time frame have become far too familiar with the illegal trafficking in human beings, marijuana and other illicit drugs. Some have called it "the wetback culture" or "America's border problem".    Lately it's been taking steroids.    The recent murder of Robert Krentz by an illegal alien has received massive amounts of publicity worldwide . I live on the ranch borderingthe Krentz ranch to the east and north. I can see the Krentz home looking out of my front doorapproximately 10 miles away.
      The day after Rob's death I was involved in-tracking the outlaw into Mexico. I saw the outlaw's footprints where he crossed the border fence. I mention this to say I feel that I'm qualified to speak about current border issues. My home has been broken into twice. My son's home has been broken into also and between us we have had between twenty and thirty thousand dollars worth of stuff stolen from us including two ranchpick-ups, a four wheeler, 9 firearms (including a loaded AK 47) cash, jewelry allof our credit cards, driver's license, etc. A guest house here on the ranch has been broken into so many times we quit counting... many times we haven't even called the Sheriff's dept.
      The Cochise County Sheriff's dept. has no less than fifteen reports on file where I've called for assistance dealing with an outlaw illegal alien. Several months ago, not long after Rob Krentz's death, Fox news (channel 10 in Phoenix AZ) contacted me and expressed interest in coming down and doing a news story aboutme and the problems myself and other ranchers in this area have had in recent months with illegal outlaws. To prepare for my interview with Fox, I asked for assistance from six other neighboring ranchers and businessmen.   All of thesemen are prominent men in the community, tax payers, business owners andindividuals who have the best of reputations.   Together we made a map of the area which covered from the southeastern corner of AZ going west about 20 milesto the silver creek area, and going north about 30 miles to the area around thetowns of Portal, AZ and Rodeo, N.M. On this map we made marks recording violations to United States law committed by illegal aliens. We did not use government statistics (we wouldn't know how to get them) but recorded incidents that we knew had happened first hand, many of which we had witnessed.
      We tried to recordonly the incidents that have happened in the last several years. The sum total of what we recorded is this:
The arrest or capture of 40 illegal in one bunch - 40 (we didn't bother with the countless smaller groups)
Loads of Marijuana found and captured -213
Dangerous encounters with illegal aliens- 132 (assault, burglaries, forced entries, etc.)
Dead illegal aliens found by civilians -16
High speed vehicle chases between dopehaulers and law enforcement - 14
Illegal aliens spotted with firearms -12
Fires started by illegal aliens - 9
Over 1000, 000 acres burned with the cost to taxpayers of $ 40,000,000. One fire near Portal AZ in June of 2010 cost $10,000,000. to fight (forest Service estimate)
Outlandish incidents - 4
      Examples:
      One bachelor in the Portal area as burglarized around 100 times. He finally took all his valuables and put them in a steel vault and welded the door shut. He then moved out of his house into a shed hoping the illegal aliens would leave him alone. They did not and he finally abandoned his property.
      Another outlandish event was when outlaws stole a brand new Caterpillar motor grader on the Geronimo Trail east of Douglas, AZ and drove south through the border fence never to be seen again. The grader belonged to Cochise County Highway Department.
Financial losses to private sector -$100,000,000.00 (losses in real estate value, personal property, etc., losses in wildlife habitat - immeasurable)
Last but certainly not least, the murder of Rob Krentz, which is right in the center of our map.  Let me put this in perspective. The area I'm talking about is an area that covers approximately 17 or 18 townships with only 20 miles being adjacent to the US - Mexico Boundary. Within this area, there is a population of perhaps 600 people, 90% of which reside in Rodeo, N.M. or Portal, AZ, 30 miles or so north of Mexico.
      No less than 80% of the people in this area have been burglarized or otherwise molested by illegal aliens. This area is about half as big as the Diamond A ranch or Babbitt ranch in northern AZ, both of which I've been employed on. I'm sorry to report that this, in my opinion, is the small part of the story. The Mexican-American border has taken a dramatic change for the worse in the last several years. Those of us who live here see it first hand.
      As early as February of 1999 Sheriff Larry Dever warned me and others at a town hall meeting at the Apache School that the Sinaloa Cartel was moving into the Douglas-Agua Prietaarea (Rob Krentz was at this meeting). The cities of Nuevo Laredo, Coahila, Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, and other border towns south of Texas have been controlled by outlaws for years.   There is virtually no law enforcement in those places. The law is the law of the jungle.
      Until the last two years it seemed that Agua Prieta and Nogales were safer places but that has dramatically changed in recent months. I am personally acquainted with 2 Mexican men, that I know to be honest and trustworthy, who have been involved first hand with Mexican outlaw terrorist acts. One witnessed first hand an execution of several people in broad daylight in Juarez. Several weeks later his daughter witnessed an assassination in Casas Grandes, Chihuahuano less than fifteen feet from where she stood.   The other man is a legal Mexican green card holder (who was employed by the Krentz family for years) whose nephew was murdered by cartel members in Sonora.
      At night people in Douglas are hearing machine gun fire from Agua Prieta south of the border fence. The Sinaloa Cartel is now putting a stranglehold on Agua Prieta. No more than 2 months ago 8 armed Mexicans were confronted by 2, U.S. Border Patrol agents north of the International Boundary in southeast Cochise County disguised as Federalizes.   They were in fact cartel employees armed with assault rifles and automatic pistols. Mexican people that know tell me the situation in Agua Prieta has deteriorated dramatically in recent months. The good people are told to look the other way "or else." Volumes could be written about this subject alone, but I will move on.
      You could ask, "So what does thishave to do with us living north of the border fence?" Plenty! The situation on the border isn't just about a few workers walking north. It has everything to do with big business. Billions of dollars are being made trafficking humans, drugs, and contraband across the International Boundary. The Sinaloa Cartel, headed by Chapo Guzman and others, is reaping huge profits doing business along the border.   The average coyote charges $1500 - $2500 to guide an illegal alien north to find work; usually abandoning them a short distance north of the line.   A young man willing to pack dope north can make more than a construction worker or a teacher in the U.S. and only work a day or two a week.   This is not all south of the line. I could take you and show you businesses where checks and credit cards are not accepted and where very few customers walk through thedoor, yet the owners live in the largest mansions in town and drive very expensive cars.   Could there be some money laundering going on?
       There are only two industries of any significance in Douglas, AZ: law enforcement (Douglas has one of the largest Border Patrol stations in America), and the illegal trafficking of drugs, people, etc. across the border. These two industries feed on each other, and the powers that be seem happy with the situation. Crooked politicians look good to the public when they clean up drunk drivingand prostitution, until you find they own bars and whore houses south of the line.   These things have happened! But this, in my opinion, is only the beginning.   Chapo Guzman who heads up the Sinaloa Cartel is a multibillionaire.   This guy and others like him may be cruel and sinister people but they are also very smart businessmen.   They are reaping profits off of the largest tax free unregulated business on the planet.   They have so much cash they are befuddled what to do with it all.   But they are going to figure it out. There are rumors that Guzman is financing modern, state of the art feedlots and packing houses in Mexico with plans to overtake America as the Western hemisphere's leading beef producer. This is probably only a small part of his plans.
      Mexico is a nation rich in natural recourses.   Petroleum is abundant and the corrupt Mexican government is in control of all of it.   Pemexis the only gas station in town. Pemex, because of the incompetent Mexican government, is broke.   Chapo Guzman is at war with the Mexican government and has dreams (not unrealistic) of controlling the entire nation.   Think of all of Mexico's natural resources in the control of Chapo Guzman!   He already has the most profitable business in the world - selling Marijuana to your next door neighbor.   Think what he could do with a tax free unregulated strangle hold on a nation of poor people begging to work for practically nothing. Do you think that Chapo Guzman and others like him haven't thought of all of this?   Do you think that Guzman isn't laughing all the way to the bank as he watches the evening news and hears how the American Government proclaims that the situation on the border is under control? What is going on in northern Mexico is capitalism in its rawest form. They have an untaxed unregulated business making huge profits and theyhave no plans of closing up shop any time soon.
      We here in the U.S.are overtaxed, over regulated and being smothered by increasingly intrusive government that makes it hard to do business in a successful manner.   You don'thave to be rocket scientist to figure this one out. This has nothing to do with being Republican or Democrat or Latino or White.   It has everything to do with being right or wrong. I came from a long line of Democrats. My great uncle was a U.S. Senator for several decades.   My grandfather was an attorney, and a Superior Court Judge.   I have a 1939 copy of a Time Magazine with his picture when he ran as a Democrat for Congress. The only time in history the U.S deficit was paid off was by a Democrat - Andrew Jackson.   John Kennedy announced nearly 50 years ago that America could put a man on the moon and in less than a decade we did it. I am now a registered Republican, but I'm not a Democrat hater.   But, how can the president of the "can do"nation of Andrew Jackson's and JFK's party say we can't seal the border?
      We conquered Adolph Hitler in World War II, but can't seal the border? We put a manon the moon but can't seal a leaking oil well in less than 90 days? While this is going on we tax and regulate American business with a vengeance that stifles the free market system that has made our country great. While Janet Napolitano announces the border is safer than ever, Chapo Guzmanand others pack billions of American dollars south to invest in a tax free market with one of the largest cheap labor force on the planet at his disposal!
      I challenge you to come to Douglas, AZ and drive east on the Geronimo Trail, or northeast on US Hwy 80 to places on the map like Chiracahua and Apache.   Or go to Rodeo and Hatchita, NM.   Go and search out the 5 biggest cattle ranches in the Apache, AZ area and ask them what they think.   Go to Hidalgo County, N.M. and ask the ranchers and cowboys there what they are seeing and hearing. Ask the people who we do business with what they think of our opinions.   I challenge you to ask the prominent people in this area, who work hard and pay taxes if they agree with Barack Obama or Ed Ashurst when it comes to what is really going on near theU.S.-Mexican border.
     Unlike Obama and others I don't have to be surrounded bysycophants to make a statement. I purposefully left out the names of those who helped me with my map and the data I collected when preparing for the Fox interview.
     In closing I challenge you to look around to see if what I say is the truth.   This isn't about a few Mexicans wandering around looking for a job. This is about American civilization going into a time of tremendous change - a building has foundations and walls, maybe the foundation of our country is still strong, I don't know, but the walls have certainly fallen down and the keepers of the house are out to lunch.
      When you have time, we think you will want to read this.   Everyone living in AZ (and elsewhere) should know what is happening near our borders and near our homes.