Wishing all a Happy New Year

I would like to wish all who visit here and my family and friends a very Happy New Year, full of all the good things.. Health, Wealth, Love and Happiness.
It is customary here to have blackeyed peas and corn bread for New Year's dinner.. it is suppose to bring you luck.. So, put some on your plate.. hummm humm good!!

See ya next year.
Margie

Sunday Sermon or the Little Red Hen

Little Red Hen Modernized

Once upon a time, on a farm in Texas , there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat. She called all of her neighbors together and said, "If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"

"Not I," said the cow.

"Not I," said the duck.

"Not I," said the pig.

"Not I," said the goose.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen And so she did; The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain. "Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the little red hen. "Not I," said the duck.

"Out of my classification," said the pig.

"I'd lose my seniority," said the cow

"I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen, and so she did. At last it came time to bake the bread.

"Who will help me bake the bread! ?" asked the little red hen.

"That would be overtime for me," said the cow.

"I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.

"I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.

"If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose.

"Then I will do it by myself," said the little red hen. She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. B u t the little red hen said, "No, I shall eat all five loaves."

"Excess profits!" cried the cow. (Pelosi)

"Capitalist leech!" screamed the duck. (Boxer)

"I demand equal rights!" yelled the goose. (J. Jackson)

The pig just grunted in disdain. (A. Sharpton)

And they all painted "Unfair!" picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then a government agent came, he said to the little red hen, "You must not be so greedy."

"But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.

"Exactly," said the agent. "That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle,"

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, "I am grateful, for now I truly understand,"

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the "party" and got her bread free. <>>> And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established. Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared.....as long as there was free bread that "the rich" were paying for.

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

Hillary got $8 million for hers.

That's $20 million for memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.

IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY, OR WHAT?

I was sort of liking Obama

I was sort of liking Obama... but I am fast coming to the conclusion he would not be a President for all the people.. just Black ones.. besides he is too inexperienced, too young, and too naive to be even a father let alone a President.

Anytime a person cannot show identification in order to vote is a very poor excuse for creating such havoc. And look at the organizations he has called in to help him stop the process. When I go to vote I go in with my registration card and a photo ID... it is no problem.. when I cash a check I have to show ID, when I opened a bank account I have to show ID, get stopped by a cop... show ID. I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. I believe you need it to get water to your house, or electricity.. at least some places.. Need it to get a drivers license. Something as important as voting should demand identification.

This is the article I am alluding to:


As Primaries Begin, the FEC Will Shut Down
No Quorum on Election Board As Nominees Stall in Congress
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 22, 2007; Page A01
The federal agency in charge of policing the torrent of political spending during the upcoming presidential primaries will, for all practical purposes, shut its doors on New Year's Eve.
The Federal Election Commission will effectively go dark on Jan. 1 because Congress remains locked in a standoff over the confirmation of President Bush's nominees to the panel. As a consequence, the FEC will enter 2008 with just two of six members -- short of the four votes needed for the commission to take any official action.

"There is, in effect, nobody to answer the phone," said Robert F. Bauer, a leading Democratic campaign finance lawyer.
Although the 375 auditors, lawyers and investigators at the FEC will continue to process work already before them, a variety of matters that fall to the commissioners will be placed on hold indefinitely. Chief among them are deciding whether to launch investigations into possible campaign finance violations and determining the penalties.
Seven presidential candidates have applied to receive public matching funds for their campaigns, but they may not be able to access the money until the FEC certifies their requests. That takes four votes.
The national political parties each anticipate an infusion of about $1 million from the U.S. Treasury to help pay for their national conventions. Releasing that money takes four votes.
And then there is a range of vexing campaign finance questions that hang in limbo: Can a firm that operates a blimp accept unlimited contributions to fly it over New Hampshire with Ron Paul's name on the side? Can a senator use his campaign account as a legal defense fund? How will campaigns comply with the new law that requires them to identify the lobbyists who are collecting campaign checks on their behalf?

Work on those questions will grind to a halt," said FEC Chairman Robert D. Lenhard, whose recess appointment will expire on New Year's Eve. Lenhard said he did not wish to reflect on the situation, other than to offer a familiar lament.
"Politics," he said glumly yesterday, before returning to the ice rink to skate with his daughter. "That's what generated this situation."
The FEC is composed of three appointees from each party, all nominated by the president. There is already one vacancy, and three recess appointments will expire on Dec. 31.
The potential for an FEC shutdown has been looming for weeks, as a handful of Democratic senators voiced opposition to one of Bush's nominees to the commission, Hans A. von Spakovsky. Their concern stemmed not from von Spakovsky's work on the FEC but from his tenure in the Justice Department's civil rights division.
His critics contend that von Spakovsky advocated a controversial Texas redistricting plan and fought to institute a requirement in Georgia that voters show photo identification before being permitted to cast ballots.

"I am particularly concerned with his efforts to undermine voting rights," Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said in a statement released in September after he placed a hold on von Spakovsky's nomination. Obama and others gathered more opposition to von Spakovsky's nomination by drawing civil rights advocates into a lobbying effort for its rejection. They attracted the involvement of a number of groups, including the NAACP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, that typically would not be engaged in a battle over an FEC nomination.
The blockade worked, but Republican leaders in the Senate countered with one of their own. If von Spakovsky were rejected, they would not allow the two Democratic nominees to be appointed, either. "The Democrats have picked their nominees, and we've picked ours," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said as the Senate prepared to recess for the holidays. "What we have here," he said, is "the Democrats trying to veto one of our nominees. That isn't going to happen. They're all four going to go together, or none of them will be approved."
The result, said Loyola law professor Rick Hasen, is a game of chicken in which no one has blinked. "When that happens, you get a collision. And that's what they got."
When it comes to federal matching funds, Democrat John Edwards has the most to lose. The FEC certified the payment of the first installment of funds this week, including $8.8 million for Edwards. But matching payments for money he has raised this month, or will receive in subsequent months, may have to wait until the FEC has four members.
There is debate among campaign finance lawyers about whether matching funds could be released without a formal commission vote, one Edwards campaign official said. Because the next installment of funds would not arrive until after the early primaries, strategists inside the Edwards campaign said they are not worried.
"We have the necessary resources to wage an aggressive campaign with the funds we currently have on hand," said Eric Schultz, a spokesman for the campaign. "We fully expect the FEC to meet their obligations under the public financing system."

As senators left town this week, the small community of lawyers and advocates who monitor campaign finance law tried to take stock of the new reality. There will not be total lawlessness, they said. The statute of limitations on most campaign finance violations does not run out for five years, so when the commission is at full strength, it will be able to pursue complaints.
But the notion of a decapitated agency is not sitting well with many of the nation's top election lawyers.
"For all of the complaints about the FEC, when it comes to campaign finance law, it is the enforcement agency," said Lawrence Noble, a former FEC general counsel. "We're in the middle of one of the most hotly contested elections in recent years -- where you have a campaign that started so early, where they're raising more money than ever before, where there are new concerns about fundraising and about the bundling of contributions. I think the public would like to know that someone is keeping an eye on all this."
The prospect for a resolution of the deadlock remains uncertain. The Senate will not resume work until mid-January, and the entire nomination process will have to begin anew, starting with Bush submitting his nominees.
Bush will continue to push Congress to confirm the current slate of nominees, including von Spakovsky, according to White House spokeswoman Emily Lawrimore. At the same time, Lawrimore said, the president recognizes the need for the FEC to function.
"We continue to encourage the Senate to vote on these nominations as a package," she said. "It's critical for the commission to be able to operate fully and effectively. We believe the right leadership needs to be in place."

Holliday Greetings for Democrat Friends and Republicans

Holiday Greetings

For My Democrat Friends:

'Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for
an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress,
non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday,
practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion
of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the
religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice
not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. We also wish you a
fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated
recognition of the generally accepted calendar year 2008, but not without
due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose
contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that
America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America
in the Western Hemisphere, and without regard to the race, creed, color,
age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishes.
By accepting these greetings you are accepting these terms. This greeting is
subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no
alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to
actually implement any of the wishes for herself or himself or others, and
is void where prohibited by law and is revocable at the sole discretion of
the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual
application of good tidings for a period of one year or until the issuance
of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is
limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole
discretion of the wisher.'

For My Republican Friends:
Merry Christmas and
a Happy , Healthy, and Prosperous New Year

Re: UN climate conference taking the World in entirely the wrong direction

I picked up the following "open letter" to the United Nations Secretary General. I think it is very important and would like to spread it around.

Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations

Dec. 13, 2007

His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon

Secretary-General, United Nations

New York, N.Y.

Dear Mr. Secretary-General,

Re: UN climate conference taking the World in entirely the wrong direction

It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages. Geological, archaeological, oral and written histories all attest to the dramatic challenges posed to past societies from unanticipated changes in temperature, precipitation, winds and other climatic variables. We therefore need to equip nations to become resilient to the full range of these natural phenomena by promoting economic growth and wealth generation.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued increasingly alarming conclusions about the climatic influences of human-produced carbon dioxide (CO2), a non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis. While we understand the evidence that has led them to view CO2 emissions as harmful, the IPCC's conclusions are quite inadequate as justification for implementing policies that will markedly diminish future prosperity. In particular, it is not established that it is possible to significantly alter global climate through cuts in human greenhouse gas emissions. On top of which, because attempts to cut emissions will slow development, the current UN approach of CO2 reduction is likely to increase human suffering from future climate change rather than to decrease it.

The IPCC Summaries for Policy Makers are the most widely read IPCC reports amongst politicians and non-scientists and are the basis for most climate change policy formulation. Yet these Summaries are prepared by a relatively small core writing team with the final drafts approved line-by-line

by ­government ­representatives. The great ­majority of IPCC contributors and ­reviewers, and the tens of thousands of other scientists who are qualified to comment on these matters, are not involved in the preparation of these documents. The summaries therefore cannot properly be represented as a consensus view among experts.

Contrary to the impression left by the IPCC Summary reports:

z Recent observations of phenomena such as glacial retreats, sea-level rise and the migration of temperature-sensitive species are not evidence for abnormal climate change, for none of these changes has been shown to lie outside the bounds of known natural variability.

z The average rate of warming of 0.1 to 0. 2 degrees Celsius per decade recorded by satellites during the late 20th century falls within known natural rates of warming and cooling over the last 10,000 years.

z Leading scientists, including some senior IPCC representatives, acknowledge that today's computer models cannot predict climate. Consistent with this, and despite computer projections of temperature rises, there has been no net global warming since 1998. That the current temperature plateau follows a late 20th-century period of warming is consistent with the continuation today of natural multi-decadal or millennial climate cycling.

In stark contrast to the often repeated assertion that the science of climate change is "settled," significant new peer-reviewed research has cast even more doubt on the hypothesis of dangerous human-caused global warming. But because IPCC working groups were generally instructed (see http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/docs/wg1_timetable_2006-08-14.pdf) to consider work published only through May, 2005, these important findings are not included in their reports; i.e., the IPCC assessment reports are already materially outdated.

The UN climate conference in Bali has been planned to take the world along a path of severe CO2 restrictions, ignoring the lessons apparent from the failure of the Kyoto Protocol, the chaotic nature of the European CO2 trading market, and the ineffectiveness of other costly initiatives to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Balanced cost/benefit analyses provide no support for the introduction of global measures to cap and reduce energy consumption for the purpose of restricting CO2 emissions. Furthermore, it is irrational to apply the "precautionary principle" because many scientists recognize that both climatic coolings and warmings are realistic possibilities over the medium-term future.

The current UN focus on "fighting climate change," as illustrated in the Nov. 27 UN Development Programme's Human Development Report, is distracting governments from adapting to the threat of inevitable natural climate changes, whatever forms they may take. National and international planning for such changes is needed, with a focus on helping our most vulnerable citizens adapt to conditions that lie ahead. Attempts to prevent global climate change from occurring are ultimately futile, and constitute a tragic misallocation of resources that would be better spent on humanity's real and pressing problems.

Yours faithfully,

[List of signatories]

Copy to: Heads of state of countries of the signatory persons.

Gun control is NOT about guns; it's about CONTROL.

"Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not."

~ Thomas Jefferson

FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE


1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.

2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.

3. Colt: The original point and click interface.

4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.

5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?

6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause-misspelled words.

7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.

8. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.

9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.

11. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.

13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.

14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.

15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.

16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.

18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.

19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.

20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.

21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.

22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.

23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don't make more.

24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.

25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

Lack of Sunlight May Increase Lung Cancer Risk

Some day they will PROVE smoking does not cause lung cancer, that is if they keep at it.


Lack of Sunlight May Increase Lung Cancer Risk
Lack of sunlight may increase the risk of lung cancer, suggests a study of rates of the disease in over 100 countries, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Lung cancer kills over a million people every year around the globe.
The researchers looked at the association between latitude, exposure to ultraviolet B (UVB) light, and rates of lung cancer according to age in 111 countries across several continents.
They took account of the amount of cloud cover and aerosol use, both of which absorb UVB light, and cigarette smoking, the primary cause of lung cancer
International databases, including those of the World Health Organization, and national health statistics were used.
Smoking was most strongly associated with lung cancer rates, accounting for between 75% and 85% of the cases.
But exposure to sunlight, especially UVB light, the principal source of vitamin D for the body, also seemed to have an impact, the findings showed.
The amount of UVB light increases with proximity to the equator. And the analyses showed that lung cancer rates were highest in those countries furthest away from the equator and lowest in those nearest.
Higher cloud cover and airborne aerosol levels were also associated with higher rates of the disease.
In men, the prevalence of smoking was associated with higher lung cancer rates, while greater exposure to UVB light was associated with lower rates.
Among women, cigarette smoking, total cloud cover, and airborne aerosols were associated with higher rates of lung cancer, while greater exposure to UVB light was associated with lower rates.
The associations for a protective role for UVB light persisted after adjusting for smoking.
The link between cancer and sunlight is chemically plausible, say the authors, because laboratory research has shown that vitamin D can halt tumour growth by promoting the factors responsible for cell death in the body.
"Although cigarette smoking is the main cause of lung cancer, greater UVB exposure may reduce the incidence of the disease," they conclude.

Huckabee is No Conservative

I am no "neo-con", whatever that is.. I am not sure, but I think it means a new convert to a political party. My grandfathers were Republican, my parents were Republican. I knew of no one that hated FDR more than my father, I can hear him now, sounding just like FDR saying... "Ourah BOYS will NEVERah go to WAAARah"
So, I heard Huckabee, watched him and I am sorry he reminds me of some of the televangelists that have gone to jail for being so false, like Jimmy Swaggert, you gotta admit Jimmy, could cry nicely on demand [like Oprah Winfery] and play the piano like a demon..I liked watching him, such an actor! so I started doing some research on what Huckabee has said and how he governed in Arkansas. The following is what I have found so far.

Mike Huckabee said: “I think I’m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamo fascism,” Huckabee told the Christian Broadcasting Network. “These are people that want to kill us. It’s a theocratic war. And I don’t know if anybody fully understands that. I’m the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well.”

But as it turns out ,the theology-degree claim may be more than unconvincing; it may also be false. The New York Times Magazine article that’s been getting lots of attention this week included this tidbit:

If young Mike Huckabee was ever rebellious or difficult, there’s no record of it. He preached his first sermon as a teenager, married his high-school sweetheart and went off to Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. There he majored in speech and communications, worked at a radio station and earned his B.A. in a little more than two years. He spent a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Tex., before dropping out to work for the televangelist James Robison, who bought him his first decent wardrobe and showed him how to use television.

Huckabee’s a seminary-school drop-out?

Robert Novak recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee entitled, "The False Conservative." In the column he said, "Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans."

Novak also said, "There is no doubt about Huckabee's record during a decade in Little Rock as governor. . . He increased the Arkansas tax burden by 47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes."

Novak continued saying, "Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee 'a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak.' Huckabee's retort was to attack Hillyer's journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited image when he responds to conservative criticism."

More reasons to beware of Mike Huckabee

Chuck Baldwin says:
Many Christian conservatives see Mike Huckabee as the best candidate to deliver the GOP from an impending pro-abortion presidential nomination of either Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney. Huckabee is doing especially well in Iowa, particularly among evangelicals. Is Mike Huckabee worthy of this support, however? The facts say no.

Robert Novak recently wrote a column about Mike Huckabee entitled, "The False Conservative." In the column he said, "Huckabee is campaigning as a conservative, but serious Republicans know that he is a high-tax, protectionist, big-government advocate of a strong hand in the Oval Office directing the lives of Americans."

Novak also said, "There is no doubt about Huckabee's record during a decade in Little Rock as governor. . . He increased the Arkansas tax burden by 47 percent, boosting the levies on gasoline and cigarettes."

Novak continued saying, "Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas journalist writing in the conservative American Spectator, called Huckabee 'a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak.' Huckabee's retort was to attack Hillyer's journalistic procedures, fitting a mean-spirited image when he responds to conservative criticism."

Calling Huckabee a proponent of big-government is an understatement. "If you listen closely, all the things he supports increase the size, power and cost of government. From subsidies for energy research to increasing money for health care and government housing, the size, power, and cost of government will not shrink under a President Mike Huckabee; they will increase . . .

Mr. Huckabee swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution when he became governor, yet many of his proposals are clearly unconstitutional." (Source: David Ulrich, Letter of the Week, World Net Daily, 10/26/07)

In addition, Dr. Jerome Corsi reports that "Financial inducements arranged by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to establish a Mexican consular office in Little Rock may have violated state law, according to an Arkansas attorney."

Writing for World Net Daily, Dr. Corsi exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee "worked with some of the state's most prominent and politically powerful businesses to establish the [Mexican] consulate as a magnet for drawing illegal immigrants to the state to accept low-paying jobs."

Corsi goes on to report that "Arkansas attorney Chip Sexton provided WND a written legal brief arguing the state government's sublease to Mexico of office space for the consulate was illegal under Arkansas law. Sexton contended the deal raised questions about the appropriateness of private citizens and corporations in Arkansas providing financial incentives for the government of Mexico to locate a consulate office in Little Rock."

Corsi also writes that "Robert Trevino, commissioner of Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, told WND he and Huckabee helped arrange state and private financial support to induce Mexico to establish the consulate as a business development 'quid pro quo.'

"Trevino signed on July 7, 2006, a 'Facilities Use Agreement' with Mexican consular officials to rent state government office space for $1 a year on the second floor of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services building at 26 Corporate Hills in Little Rock."

According to Sexton, not only did subleasing state government offices to Mexico violate Arkansas state law under Ark. Code Ann. 22-2-114(C)(i) which provides: "After July 1, 1975, no state agency shall enter into or renew or otherwise negotiate a lease between itself as lessor or lessee and a nongovernmental or other government lessor or lessee," but it was even more offensive in that "there was nothing in the lease or other agreements that would have prevented the Mexican consulate from providing legal assistance to illegal aliens."

In addition, Corsi also exposed the fact that Mike Huckabee worked with Mexican President Vicente Fox to help provide cheap Mexican labor for Tyson foods and other large Arkansas corporations. According to Corsi, "Trevino confirmed he was state director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC, an activist group strongly advocating for the rights of Hispanic immigrants in the U.S., when on Oct. 3, 2003, he accompanied Huckabee in a state airplane to visit [President Vicente] Fox in Mexico."

There is more.

The American Spectator reported that "Fourteen times, the ethics commission — a respected body, not a partisan witch-hunt group — investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at an real length, there were lots of other mini-scandals and embarrassments along the way."

Plus, writing for The Washington Times, Greg Pierce quoted Hillyer as saying, "[Huckabee] used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a 'charitable' organization he set up while lieutenant governor — an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious 'charity.'"

Mike Huckabee's beliefs and actions even border on the bizarre. According to David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union, "GOP presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee suggested that as president he would, for the good of the people, support a federal anti-smoking law. You see, as governor, Huckabee supported such laws because, well, he doesn't like smoking and doesn't think folks should indulge in so heath-threatening an activity. If he could move on up to the presidency, he would continue his abolitionist crusade at the national level without giving much, if any, thought to the question of whether the Constitution or anything else would legitimize a federal ban on smoking."

I have yet one more word of warning for those evangelicals supporting Huckabee because he is pro-life: Mike Huckabee will most definitely support Rudy Giuliani should Giuliani obtain the Republican nomination. Count on it.

I ask you, how could a committed "pro-life" conservative support a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, pro-gun control liberal such as Rudy Giuliani? He couldn't.

At the end of the day, however, there is absolutely no question that Huckabee will support Giuliani (or any other pro-abortion Republican), because, when all is said and done, Huckabee and his fellow big-government Republicans have no real commitment to the life issue or to any other conservative principle.

Let's say it plainly: Mike Huckabee is just another big-government, establishment politician who will do nothing to stem the tide of socialism or fascism (pick your poison) emanating from Washington, D.C., these days.

Don't be duped by Mike Huckabee.

My Take on 2008

For a Republican candidate to win in 2008, he must convince voters that he represents change while not repudiating President Bush, who is still popular with the Republican Party’s core constituency. That may be difficult to do.

Of course, if the voting public could be convinced that a Democratic president would mean drastically higher taxes and a weak national defense, the 2008 election could switch from a change to a stable election. It is not clear if any Republican candidate has the credibility to pull that off.

Global Banks Embrace Islam

Dear Friend,

This Trojan Horse is green, like money. When you see what's inside, it may cause your knees to buckle.

Global banks are stampeding to bring Islamic banking to center stage throughout the world. What Islam could never do by itself to legitimize their brutal and medieval Shari'a law, the international banks have now done for them.

This sordid affair between global banks and Islam is certain to bear nothing but bad fruit for citizens of the world, and especially for the United States.

This is a must-read paper that you will want to shout from the roof-top.

Global Banks Embrace Islam

I strongly encourage you to also read the several resources in the bibliography at the bottom of the paper.

Please Digg this article and email links to everyone you know.

Regards,

Patrick Wood, Editor
The August Review

Best time to buy gasoline

Al Tompkins says:
You may have seen an e-mail that is making the rounds, urging you to purchase gasoline in the morning hours when the fuel is at its coolest. The e-mail says cold gasoline is more dense, so you get more fuel for your money if you get gas in the morning. When you pump during the heat of the day, especially in the summer, the argument goes that you are buying more vapor than when the gas is cold.

This sounded crazy to me. I mean, the tanks are underground -- how much heat or cold could actually get into them? But in 2006, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star investigated the story and found it to be rooted in truth. Temperature really does have something to do with gasoline density.

In fact, it could amount to a few pennies per gallon that motorists get shorted in the summer. There are some who argue that pumps should be temperature-adjusted as they are in Hawaii. NPR picked up the story this summer.

If all of that is true, it seems as though in the winter, those of you living in the coldest areas would benefit from the weather. The gasoline industry says any benefits it gets in the summer are wiped out in the winter. But what about areas like Florida, Texas, Nevada, California or Arizona, where it gets real hot but not real cold? The tilt goes to the gas station, not the customer.

Have you noticed how people just seem to forget New Mexico is stuck in there somewhere? That's okay. Miami-Dade County has more people in the county than in the whole state of NM, and I like it that way. Also it gets VERY cold in Nevada for Mr. Thompkins information.. but that is just a slight error in an otherwise good article..

2008 Primaries

2008 Primaries

Now the primaries are heating up and getting interesting. If Obama plays his cards right he is going to win the nomination. Too soon to decide about the Republicans.
I believe it is going to have to be a very strong Republican to beat Obama. And I sure hate to see him win the presidency. He is too young, too idealistic, and too inexperienced for me.

My, How time flies

I just got a note from a friend of mine in Miami, Fl.
Gosh, it seems like yesterday her daughter was a 5 year old and her son a new born. Here her daughter has been teaching for 10 years and has gotten the teacher of the year award, and the National something or other.. and she is in charge of the school's website. http://killian.dadeschools.net/ .
Her son got married and she sent me a picture of him and his bride. Nice looking couple. The son is a BIG boy now. Time do rush by doesn't it? Her daughter teaches physics. I have a hard time picturing them as being all grown up even though I watched them grow up. The son was a frequent visitor to my house.
My friend retired in June she said. I guess she will never leave Miami now. Not as long as her children are there. She had always planned on going back to Georgia hill country. She didn't mention that in her note.

Good Picture and Articles

I love the picture that Luna Conservative web Log has on it's site.. Entitled Primaries of 2008.. you can see the articles here..
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/FrenchPoint/blog.html

Texas Border Troubles

We watched Glenn Beck last night. He covered some of the problems on the Texas border, down near Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. He had a couple of guest on. One is a sheriff and the other a congressman. I forget their names. But those two really go at it. The sheriff asked the congressman, "when someone calls 911, who responds? The Border Patrol, FBI, BATF, CIA? No, it is the local law enforcement. How come you don't give us any funds to fight these guys with? We have hand guns and they have AK 47's. The congressman came back with, "you are just a little sheriff of a single county, you don't see the big picture like I do on the federal level." Both of these guys are of Mexican descent, I might add. Well, it turns out that the brother of the Congressman is running for sheriff. Seems to me to be a little conflict of interest going on here.

Then they talked about the Federal government [congress] giving Mexico several billion dollars to buy equipment with, night vision stuff, spy stuff, weapons... etc. The sheriff said that this was wrong. They should not give them one cent until they show they are making an effort to control the drug trafficking, and the coyotes that smuggle people across. Again the congressman came back with, "you don't see the big picture." The sheriff said the congressman didn't see that the worse of the people in Mexico were trained and equipped right here in the USA. They were Mexican Army, now they have joined the Mexican Drug Cartels, and they are the most vicious of people."

The sheriff said well, you don't understand the Texas people.. this situation is reaching a boiling point. And you forget that Texas still has in their constitution and agreement with the US, the right to succeed. And we will clean up our own border our way."

Every one keeps saying we should bring our troops back from Korea to patrol our borders.. I say bring them back and those in Kosovo [?] and invade Mexico and clean out Mexico, might as well occupy it while we are at it.

While we are on the subject.. I read yesterday, and I forgot where, didn't bookmark it. Where some sheriffs and local people are saying that we should put dams along the river, making it deeper and wider and easier to patrol, harder to cross, rather than build a fence, because building the fence means we give back to Mexico Texas land and the river. Cheaper building dams than the fence.