Gore is a fraud, letter by Jim Greaves

So Mr. Gore purchases "offsets"? So what? He's only selling them to himself anyway! As the Chairman of his own company that may or may not actually be doing any research with the "offset contributions" he is PAYING HIMSELF we can only assume he thinks we are stupid!
That's like using local farmland for high density housing, and then buying "transfer of development rights", a process whereby destruction of local ag land is "offset" by preserving land "somewhere else" - land that is already preserved. Net gain? NONE. Net loss? All that land that is covered in concrete.
The Gore-o-philes actually have the gall to expect US to believe that their belief that they are doing something to lower the Gore's "footprint" to zero is actually causing a reversal of the Gore's footprint to zero, when IN FACT, all they have done is shift that footprint onto the REST of us. What a dumbo. What dumbos in this nation actually buy that crap? He deserved to lose in 2000. And it's a shame the Oscar folks can't spot a charlatan or recognize a sham when they see it, considering they spend so much money creating shows extolling those "virtues".
Shame on Al Gore and the morons who promote his sleight of hand as if he were doing something real, or of any value to anyone but himself. He is a fraud.
Jim Greaves

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt
the person doing it." -- Chinese Proverb
http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2007/03/01/another-inconvenient-truth/

Dem's Resolution dishonest, letter by Jim Greaves

The Senate vote to stop a filibuster on "the" resolution to call on Bush to change course in Iraq could not even muster a SIMPLE majority, let alone the super-majority of 60 votes needed to end debate!
In their on-going megalomaniacal rant over the War in Iraq, Democrat leaders keep referring to the election of 2006 as some kind of mandate to end the war. I remind your readers that the corruption of several Congress-people had more to do with the change in party power than any foreign policy of the Bush Administration.
Significantly, only 30 seats out of 435 (or less than SEVEN percent) changed party affiliation last year; the change in the Senate was equally as tiny. If anything, this means @ 93 percent of the voters were, and still are, satisfied with the "status quo", or "the direction in which the nation is heading", another misapplied notion (what subject is wrong?).
If there were a "mandate", the Republicans would have been decapitated in the election, like in 1994 when the Democrat Party lost nearly 30% of its seats. Republicans were not so utterly vanquished in either house of Congress in 2006.
With Congress so evenly divided, there is hardly a majority shift in view! Democrat presidential aspirants can't even decide if they're for taxes or against them!
Seems to me the thin Democrat majority and its allies in the press and among Republicans are dishonest, if not a little mendacious, in their conclusion that the American people wish to abandon Iraq to mob rule. So one might also conclude regarding the comparison of Iraq with Vietnam. It will only be a similar disaster if we allow Hanoi Jane any more air time.
Jim Greaves

Veteran's Day, Sat Nov. 11

"If you can read this thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a Veteran." John Glenn, on the Senate floor, Monday, Jan. 26, 2004.

Letter to Congress

Immigration Enforcement! No Immigration Reform.
Pro-amnesty talking points are lies!

We have substantial laws in place to deal with the issues [created by lax enforcement].

ENFORCE CURRENT LAW.

Fine employers who hire illegals!

Deport illegals! They are not immigrants. They are lawless, opportunists.

Pro-amnesty talking points are lies. Illegals are a drain on U.S. society in many ways.

Illegal aliens commit crimes [rape, robbery, forgery]; drug smuggling; and gang activities.
Illegal aliens bring diseases across the border with them [polio, virulent tuberculosis, syphilis, viruses, and …]
Illegal aliens get social services [welfare checks, health care, and public school] paid for by American Taxpayers.
Illegal aliens increase population density in our cities adding to pollution and congestion.
Illegal alien encampments in wild areas destroy wildlife habitat and pollute our creeks and rivers. They are a threat to the environment.
Illegal aliens take jobs away from American Citizens.

The policy of allowing illegal adults to remain in this country because they gave birth on U.S. soil must change! I work in public school in southern California. 90-95% of the children I ‘teach’ are from illegal Mexican families and regularly and voluntarily, travel to Mexico to ‘see’ family and spend a good portion of the school year. Public school is merely ‘baby sitting service’ to these children and their families. The students do not do well because they miss a good portion of the lessons when away and don’t make the work up when they return. Their presence in school is a disruption and drain to the American children who attend all year. The ‘migrant’ children bring school grade scores down. These families must be made to choose [for the stability of the children]; return to Mexico and stay, or return to Mexico and apply for U.S. Citizenship – through the proper channels, under CURRENT LAW. Those here, who have made babies can leave with the children and apply for prime consideration based on the children’s status.

Even if they have squatted on U.S. soil for 5, 7, 10, 12 years they still must be subject to the law. There is no statute of limitations for illegal entry into the U.S. unless Congress [against public will] hands out the free pass [amnesty]. The opinion polls published by the Media are skewed and do not truly reflect majority American opinion. Pro-amnesty talking points are lies. Americans will do ANY job, for a decent wage. Business wants a peon-class that will work for next to nothing. We fought a war about this in the 19th century. Then, it was to free the slaves imported to do farm labor on Southern plantations. Today, the issue is to send the slaves home! Let Americans work and work for a decent [even if minimum] wage.
Build a border fence!

Illegal plain and simple

Thomas Sowell exposes the lefts phoney argument pro amnesty for illegals:
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/29/191639.html

May fifth

Cinco de Mayo celebrates the defeat of the French army by a small, poorly armed Mexican militia at the Battle of Puebla. The whole country takes the day off for this national holiday.

Imagine! The French getting beaten! If there was a holiday for every time the French army was defeated, nobody would get any work done.

Something of more significant note occurred May 5th, 1865 The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S.

Why isn't Jessie Jackass, the NAACP, and Black Caucus serving us up Ripple and Chittlin's? I propose to start a movement May 5, Thirteenth Amendment Day. that will over shadow Servesa and Chips day.

Filibusters

Filibusters are NOT written into the Constitution. Filibusters are a 'practice' gone amuck. The current level of obstructionist practice on the part of Democrat politicians is counter productive and damaging to our system of government. It is selfish and tyrannical. Those participating in Filibusters are not doing so with the greater good of the American people at heart, but for their own political power and position at stake. The Democrats have held power in Congress for 30 years and have gotten NOTHING done, and now they obstruct proposals that address problems previously identified [by Democrats] simply because the current proponents are Republicans proving that Democrat obstructionists don't care about doing the business of government only the business of politics.

Greetings

Grand Opening of the Planetarian. Blogspot for Larkwick and all interested parties.

There is so much that is of importance and consequence that I don't know where to begin. Maybe you can help with your responses to the following list of topics:

Are college students being trained to be leftist lackeys - Useful Idiots
Global Overpopulation
Humanity's self loathing
Humanity's self love
Liberal Hypocrisy
Species die off

That should do to get started.

Cheers,
Larkwick