A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.

Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.

It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers.

“Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years,” union Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. “They are never held accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush this off as another case of ‘Oh well, they didn’t know they were in the United States.’

Washington Times

For the life of me I cannot imagine why anyone in their right mind would want to be a border patrol agent for the United States of America.  These guys should be treated like gold and instead the Federal Government spits on them like dirt.  They throw them in jail for doing their job and don’t back them up and allow their lives to be unnecessarily put at risk and turn their heads the other way.  The Bush Administration has been one of the absolute worst offenders.

This is one rare occasion where I would support a union strike by all the border patrol agents to send a strong message to the Feds they aren’t going to put up with this treatment any longer.

This guy was lucky that other agents showed up for backup otherwise he may have been killed.

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet

Republican presidential candidate John McCain drew a sharp rebuke Monday from conservatives after he signaled an openness to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, contrary to previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind.

Speaking with reporters on his campaign bus on July 9, he cited a need to shore up Social Security, saying: “I cannot tell you what I would do, except to put everything on the table.”

He went a step farther Sunday with his reponse on a nationally televised talk show to a question about payroll tax increases.

“There is nothing that’s off the table. I have my positions, and I’ll articulate them. But nothing’s off the table,” McCain said. “I don’t want tax increases. But that doesn’t mean that anything is off the table.”

That comment drew a strong response Monday from the Club for Growth, a Washington anti-tax group. McCain’s comments, the group said in a letter to the Arizona senator, are “shocking because you have been adamant in your opposition to raising taxes under any circumstances.”

ABC News

McCain has been holding up pretty well in the polls and them he goes and does something stupid like this.  Of all the things to have a change of heart on, why in the hell would he back off a pledge not to raise taxes?  Taxes don’t need to be raised.  Spending needs to be cut and Social Security doesn’t need to be shored up.  It needs to be phased out of existence.

Wow.  What kind of heathens are in the Oregon State Legislature?

Some terminally ill patients in Oregon who turned to their state for health care were denied treatment and offered doctor-assisted suicide instead, a proposal some experts have called a “chilling” corruption of medical ethics.

Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., has been in a fight for his life. Uninsured and unable to pay for expensive chemotherapy, he applied to Oregon’s state-run health plan for help.

Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup’s request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup’s pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.

“It dropped my chin to the floor,” Stroup told FOX News. “[How could they] not pay for medication that would help my life, and yet offer to pay to end my life?”

The letter, which has been sent to other terminal patients throughout Oregon, follows guidelines established by the state legislature.

Fox News

This is precisely what we can expect from a universal health care system if God forbid we ever end up with that here in the United States.  When it gets to be too expensive, they’ll just let you die.  It already happens in Britain.

Grandmother dies after NHS cancer treatment is withdrawn because she paid privately for life-extending drug

These laid off supervisors need to file a class action lawsuit against the state.

July 23 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation designed to shore up confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and stem the record surge in mortgage foreclosures, sending the bill to the Senate.House members voted 272-152 in favor of the measure, which lawmakers and administration officials expect will be passed in the Senate and signed into law by President George W. Bush. The bill gives Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson power to inject capital into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and provides for a federal agency to insure refinanced home loans.

Bloomberg

I’m not surprised this passed.  I expected it to.  This is an election year and God forbid the Republicans would show a unified front against reckless spending.  Then again, they were in charge of the most reckless spending in history so what was I thinking.  My anger is directed toward Bush who was set to veto this and has now changed his mind.  Of course, I should have expected this as well.  It’s another facet of his “compassionate conservatism” which has been such a big hit that over 70% of the American people thinks he sucks as a President, Yours Truly included.

This bill goes way farther than just bailing out homeowners.  The real infuriating part is that it bails out a few failed CEOs who will continue to make their millions as well as the suits on Wall Street, courtesy of you and me who are just barely getting by.

The Congressional Budget Office says this plan will cost $25 Billion.  A press release this afternoon from Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC-10) has the figure set at $5 trillion over the long term.

I can’t believe so many people are actually planning on voting for this guy.  Furthermore, why are he and McCain speaking at a La Raza forum in the first place?  La Raza is a bigoted, hate filled organization.  They may as well be standing in front of the Klan.

NEW YORK: In a country that holds itself up as a citadel of free enterprise, Washington has morphed from being the lender of last resort into effectively the only resort for home loans for millions of Americans engaged in the largest transactions of their lives.Before, the government’s more modest mission was to make more loans available at lower rates. Now it is to make sure the loans that matter most to middle class Americans are made at all.The new reality is scorned by libertarians and conservatives, who fear intrusions by the state in the market, and by populists and progressives, who rue a society in which education and housing increasingly rest upon the government’s willingness to finance it.”If you’re a socialist, you should be happy,” said Michael Lind, a fellow at the New America Foundation, a research institute in Washington. “But you should really wonder whether you want people’s ability to pay for housing and college dependent on the motives of people in Washington.”

International Herald Tribune

The proposed bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is the latest in the race to see how much industry government can partially nationalize with taxpayer subsidies and keep them afloat.  With a Democratic Congress and a neo-con White House we are becoming less of a free market nation and more of a European Socialist market that is propped up by government funding.  The Federal government has already injected itself in the insurance industry, providing nationalized flood insurance for people naive enough to build their homes in flood plains.  Charlie Crist has been pushing Congress to pass a sort of nationalized hurricane insurance program, much like the NFIP.

And this isn’t even the worst of it.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s plan to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is an “unmitigated disaster” and the largest U.S. mortgage lenders are “basically insolvent,” according to investor Jim Rogers.

Taxpayers will be saddled with debt if Congress approves U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s request for the authority to buy unlimited stakes in and lend to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Rogers said in a Bloomberg Television interview. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Daniel Zimmerman predicted the mortgage finance companies’ shares may fall another 35 percent.

“I don’t know where these guys get the audacity to take our money, taxpayer money, and buy stock in Fannie Mae,” Rogers, 65, said in an interview from Singapore. “So we’re going to bail out everybody else in the world. And it ruins the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and it makes the dollar more vulnerable and it increases inflation.”

Bloomberg

The dollar is already in a perilous position.  The more it declines, the higher oil prices are going to rise, thrashing our economy even harder.

We, the taxpayers, have already bailed out Bear Stearns.  Where does it end?  Rogers is correct in the Bloomberg article (if you read the whole thing).  Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should go bankrupt from the careless mistakes they have made and that would be the case if Washington doesn’t step in to save the day.  How will constantly infusing them with more and more of our money going to turn things around?

Free market Capitalism in this country has been slowly going by the way side and just took a huge leap forward in that direction.  A precedent has now been set, a bad one.  Should we nationalize the oil industry next since that is so important to our economic structure?  The cries are already out there to do so.  Even closer are talks of government taking over the health care industry.  Say goodbye to our Capitalist land of freedom, innovation, and opportunity.  It’s all but a memory, pieces of the past that aren’t being picked up.

A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.
 
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women’s suffrage in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.
 
But one global warming expert from the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) told Cybercast News Service that such a remark reveals Markey’s ignorance on the subject of global warming.
 
“In Somalia back in 1993, climate change, according to 11 three- and four-star generals, resulted in a drought which led to famine,” said Markey.
 
“That famine translated to international aid we sent in to Somalia, which then led to the U.S. having to send in forces to separate all the groups that were fighting over the aid, which led to Black Hawk Down. There was this scene where we have all of our American troops under fire because they have been put into the middle of this terrible situation,” he added.CNS News

I guess the climate change faithful have become so desperate in their quest to convince others of their beliefs, despite a rising resistance against this junk science, that they just pull stuff out of their asses now and don’t even bother trying to get a scientific opinion.  What other reason could Ed Markey have for blatantly lying to a group of 25 high school students?  Is he so lacking on actual accomplishments in Washington that he must resort to fear mongering to keep getting reelected?

But Myron Ebell, director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at CEI, told Cybercast News Service that Markey’s remarks reveal his ignorance about the science of global warming. 
 
“Yes, that part of the world is subject to drought at times, but it has very little to do with global warming,” said Ebell. “It is subject to drought whether the global average temperature is going up, down, or staying the same. To say you know the conflict was caused by global warming is to show how really ignorant you are of the scientific issues involved.”
 
The students who testified at the event, most of whom had lived in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, described the difficulties they faced after the storm and blamed global warming for the disaster.

Of course they blamed global warming for it!  Our children have been getting brainwashed into becoming believers for several years now.  They are being taught in schools and by left wing politicians and presidential candidates that man made climate change is an indisputable fact and every single disaster that happens on the planet is a result.  Schools around the nation show Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” as if it’s a legitimate scientific documentary. 

As time has gone on the growing absurdity of claims have become comical, like those by Congressman Markey here.  I believe it’s the result of rising skepticism due to reality not coinciding with their claims.  2008, for instance, was one of the coldest winters on record.  This is visible in the believers’ slow shift from “global warming” to “climate change.”

  

Call Senators DeMint and Ensign and let them know you support their efforts on this issue!

The housing lobby is frustrated by the delay in passing the Mortgage Bailout Bill and has decided to target Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and John Ensign (R-NV).  Recently, lobbyists representing housing industry have started putting pressure on these two Senators whom they view to be the source of the delay.

The motive of the housing lobby should be obvious - if the $300 billion bailout is passed, then they will stand to benefit greatly from not having to take responsibility for their bad loans.  However, Senators DeMint and Ensign have been on the right side of this issue from day one and are leading the fight to expose the bill for what it is: an irresponsible bailout for house flippers and their banks.

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As the GOP in Congress appears about to be taking an “every man for himself” strategy for the fall elections, Gallup has just given the Republicans another gift (Americans Oppose Income Redistribution to Fix Economy). The results of this poll show that if the GOP ever gets back to preaching and adhering to the simple message that they used to have — one that they’ve previously ridden to victory on — they’d be shoe-ins in 2008. Whether or not the Republicans have cleaned their own house enough to take advantage of something like this remains to be seen.Barack Obama is running on an economic platform that promises to “restore fairness to the tax code”. On the same page of his campaign website that that quote came from, Obama also refers to Bush’s “Tax Cuts for Wealthy Instead of Middle Class”. Put the two of them together and the message that Obama is sending to the public is that he wants to take money from the wealthy and give to the middle class - the very definition of the “Income Redistribution” that this Gallup poll measures public opinion on. Obama doesn’t even have to actively do much for this redistribution to happen - all he has to do is let the Bush tax cuts expire.The numbers in this poll are staggering. Overall, Americans are against the core principle behind Barack Obama’s domestic economic policy — income redistribution — by an astounding 84% to 13%. Republicans oppose it 90%-9%, Independents oppose it 85% to 13%, and even Democrats oppose it 77% to 19%.

American Thinker

It’s really no mystery why 1994 was the year that it was for the Republican Party.  Americans want less taxes.  They want less government.  They want people to be responsible for their actions and the Republican Party gave them that option that year and the voters ran with it.

Unless I’m mistaken, all of these results show support for - dare I say it - Reagan-brand conservatism. Even after all this time — after all the liberal garbage that the Democrats and the media relentlessly shove in our faces — when the public is faced with an economic crisis, Reagan’s conservative message of low taxes and limited government still wins.

So the question remains, why then are so many voters flocking to Barack Obama when he clearly doesn’t represent their beliefs?  I think the answer to that is simple.  The GOP no longer represents those beliefs either.  Bush flushed all our success down the toilet and the Congress joined in so it’s also no mystery why in the past couple of years people have been running from the GOP screaming.

Think about it.  In 1994 the Republicans promised to cut entitlement spending and they did.  Bush expanded entitlement spending by historical numbers.  Republicans promised a balanced budget and delivered.  In fact, the national debt was decreasing during the 1990s.  Bush has almost doubled the debt.  In 1994 Republicans promised less government and a more open government.  The Bush administration has grown government by record levels and has been one of the most secretive administrations in history while the GOP Congress during his administration has been rife with corruption.  Why would any rational thinking person want more of this?

Obama isn’t doing so well because Americans want to turn to Socialism as a cure.  He is simply the “anything but another Republican” candidate.  I don’t know what’s going to happen in November, but the odds are against McCain winning unless something really damning comes out against Obama.  What I do know is that the Republican Party needs to take advantage of the next few years and start pulling itself back together and rebranding themselves with that 1994 image that we all fell in love with.  People want fiscal conservatism and personal liberty.  They don’t want wreckless spending and gay marriage amendments.  The Republicans need to build again from the ground up in places that used to be fertile GOP territory, but now where scarcely a Republican can be found.  There is one Republican House member in all of New England and he is a poor example anyway.  They’re down to only a handful of Congressional seats in New York and California and the party hasn’t been competitive in Presidential races in those two states in 20 years.  They’re beginning to slip in the south and the west and starting to lose suburbia.

I have no doubt that if Obama wins he’ll be a one term wonder.  He’s going to completely bomb just like Carter did.  In fact, his administration won’t be any different than Carter’s other than Obama won’t have a retarded brother running around embarrassing him in public.  If the GOP can get its act together they can make some gains back in 2010 and then go for the full monty in ‘12, but it’s going to have to happen from the ground up.  The folks in leadership aren’t going to do it so it’s up to the people on the ground to start making the noise.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint on Wednesday spearheaded Republican opposition to a $50 billion expansion of President Bush’s signature program to combat AIDS in Africa and elsewhere overseas.

DeMint, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and five other Republican senators blocked Senate consideration of a bill that would more than triple U.S. aid to nations most stricken by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and to international relief groups helping them.

“For us to attempt to buy friendship around the world by spending $50 billion is just completely irresponsible,” DeMint said. “There are enough worthy causes around the world to bankrupt us a hundred times over.”

The State

Not just irresponsible, it’s unconstitutional!  There is nothing, NOTHING in the Constitution that allows our government to give any of our money away to other nations.  Why isn’t this stuff challenged in the courts anymore??  When FDR was trying to implement all of his Marxist programs the SCOTUS was striking them down left and right (until he scared the crap out of them by trying to expand the court and stack it with Socialist judges).  Yet, today we see unconstitutional bills passed almost daily and they are never challenged.  I hope these Senators hold firm on this.  I am so thankful to have a man like Jim DeMint representing my state.

Woohoo!!  This is a win for all Americans today, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal.  The Second Amendment does indeed guarantee an individual right to own a gun.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Washington D.C.’s sweeping ban on handguns is unconstitutional.

The justices voted 5-4 against the ban with Justice Antonin Scalia writing the opinion for the majority.

At issue in District of Columbia v. Heller was whether the city’s ban violated the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms” by preventing individuals — as opposed to state militias — from having guns in their homes.

District of Columbia officials argued they had the responsibility to impose “reasonable” weapons restrictions to reduce violent crime, but several Washingtonians challenged the 32-year-old law. Some said they had been constant victims of crimes and needed guns for protection.

CNN

The decision being a 5 to 4 split though does bother me.  It shouldn’t have been that close.  We were one judge away from having the Second Amendment being totally gutted.  They should have been unanimous on this.  Anyone can clearly see what the intention of the Second Amendment was.  It’s not difficult.

Update:  I found some of the opinions of the dissenting justices.  Get a load of this crap:

In a dissent he summarized from the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.”

He said such evidence “is nowhere to be found.”

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent in which he said, “In my view, there simply is no untouchable constitutional right guaranteed by the Second Amendment to keep loaded handguns in the house in crime-ridden urban areas.”

Fox News

PHOENIX (AP) — John McCain hopes to solve the country’s energy crisis with cold hard cash.

The presumed Republican nominee is proposing a $300 million government prize to whoever can develop an automobile battery that far surpasses existing technology. The bounty would equate to $1 for every man, woman and child in the country, “a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency,” McCain said in remarks prepared for delivery Monday at Fresno State University in California.

The Times-News

Anyone catch the error in this article?  It’s the second sentence.  The author wrote that McCain was offering a $300 million prize in government money to whoever develops this battery.  The problem is that the government has no money.  What he is offering is $300 million of OUR money, yours and mine.

House Democrats responded to President’s Bush’s call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), member of the House Appropriations Committee and one of the most-ardent opponents of off-shore drilling

“We (the government) should own the refineries. Then we can control how much gets out into the market.”

Fox News

No wonder the left has a love affair with Hugo Chavez. What exactly is nationalization of the oil refineries going to do for the price of gas? Manipulating the market will only make the problem worse. Put the government in control and we’ll likely end up with shortages like we did back in the 70s with Tricky Dick and his price controls. Hinchey needs to be looking at his own face in the mirror if he wants someone to blame for the current cost of fuel.

Hinchey is not the first Democrat to call for nationalization of oil in this country. Is there really any doubt that this party is America’s Socialist party?

CNN did a spot on how each income bracket would be effected under McCain’s tax plan and Obama’s tax plan.

They said they received their information from the Tax Policy Center, which they claim is a non-partisan organization. I don’t know anything about the TPC and like most Americans I am always skeptical about what I hear from the not-so-mainstream media, however if this comparison is accurate McCain ought to be adopting some of Obama’s tax policy. Instead of soaking wealthier Americans with higher taxes like Obama would do, McCain should continue his policy of sustaining the Bush tax cuts for everyone, but he should make additional cuts on middle and lower income Americans, more than Obama does. Hell, I’d even be as aggressive as eliminating income taxes entirely from people making less than $50,000 a year, just as an example. The Democrats would no longer be able to paint McCain as the second coming of W and his “tax cuts for the rich.” With rising inflation in just about every sector and the middle class being hit the most by it, this would bring a lot of swing voters solidly into McCain’s camp as well as some current Obama supporters.The second thing McCain should do is to change his stance on ANWR and support drilling there as well as off our continental shelves. The price of oil is the culprit behind a lot of the inflation we are experiencing and a lot more people in this country are getting behind expanding domestic drilling. McCain continues to be against drilling in ANWR and that is just stupid in the current political environment. He should claim that he will open the door to ANWR drilling as well as off the oceans and Gulf Coast and that rally voters behind him.

These are two fairly common sense issues in my opinion that would chip away at a lot of Obama’s popularity right now. There is no way that Obama would come back and try to one up him on either of these. These positions would provide the GOP with a solid platform to take to the voters and help not just with the Presidential race but also with Congress.

“Scientists” from all around the world are going to join ABC News in hoodwinking many gullible Americans into thinking that mankind is at the dawn of extinction from …. drumroll …… climate change!

But don’t press that button just yet. Read on.

Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse?

According to many of the world’s top scientists, the answer is yes, unless we take action now.

When Republicans use this kind of language discussing the War on Terror, they’re accused of fear mongering.

This September, in Earth 2100, a dramatic ABC News 2-hour broadcast, the greatest minds across the globe will join together in a countdown to the year 2100 to tell us what we must do to survive the next century … And what may happen if we don’t.

The time to act is now, says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute.

“The 21st century is going to be the century which determine[s] whether we live or die as a sustainable species,” Gleick said. “As populations grow, as our use of resources grows, I think we get closer and closer to that edge.”

Experts say that extreme changes in climate, combined with dwindling resources, famine, war and disease have the potential to create a post-apocalyptic world in less than a hundred years. Harvard University and Woods Hole climatologist John Holdrens says we cannot continue going down the same path.

“If we continue on business as usual, we are going to see more floods, more droughts, more heat waves, more wildfires, more ice melting, faster sea level rise,” Holdren said.

“We really have less than a decade to start getting this right. If we’re still dragging our feet in 2015 I think it really becomes at that point almost impossible for the world to avert a degree of climate change that we simply will not be able to manage without intolerable cost and consequences.”

In order to avoid this chilling future, we have to first imagine it. In an unprecedented Internet event, ABC is inviting people from around the world to bring the future to life.

ABC News

It’s unprecedented! Well, not really.

I would like to direct you to the June 24, 1974 edition of TIME magazine.

In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada’s wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone’s recollection.

As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Sound familiar? According to those quacks I should be living in an igloo right now here in the southern U.S. Of course this isn’t the first time that “mainstream” accepted theory has been wrong. Remember when Galileo brought forth the idea of heliocentrism? It didn’t go over real well.

I mean, every scientist and scholar knew that Earth was the center of the universe and sun revolved around us. How dare Galileo not accept the truth!These so called scientists and the leftist media continuing to perpetuate a theory as absolute truth is dishonest and shocking at the lengths they will go to in order to jam this crap down our throats. The accusations of those supporting this idea in attempts to link it to normal occurrences are getting more pathetic and desperate as time goes on. For instance, the Secretary General of the U.N. claimed the slaughters going on in Sudan were due to global warming. They claimed that Katrina was the result of global warming and every year since have predicted even worse hurricanes than that. The last three hurricane seasons since have been about as wild as a Pennsylvanian Quaker.As shown, the scientific community is not all seeing. Hell, they can’t even tell me what the weather is going to be like two days from now and be accurate half the time. I’m supposed to believe them on climate change? And what of these 31,000 scientists who recently signed a petition disputing man made climate change? Are they to just be ignored?

Besides, if these guys at ABC were half as smart as they think they are, they would know that we don’t even have until the 22nd Century. The world is going to end on December 21, 2012. Mayan scientists said so, after all. Duh!

Per a new poll from the National Center for Public Policy Research:

Washington, DC - Most Americans - including those in the Farm Belt - want Congress to reduce or eliminate the corn ethanol mandate, according to a new poll released today by the National Center for Public Policy Research.

The poll, published by the Public Opinion and Policy Center of the National Center for Public Policy Research, found that 41% of Americans want Congress to repeal the corn ethanol mandate entirely, while 35% want Congress to repeal the law it passed last December to double it. Just 6% want the mandate to increase as planned while 5% want it to be even expanded further.

The reality is that Americans know that ethanol subsidies raise grocery prices and make it more difficult for people to pay for food. Thankfully, we have a presidential nominee who gets it, running against one of the biggest proponents of farm subsidies in Washington in Barack Obama.

If only the sellout Republicans in congress hadn’t supported the latest Farm Bill en masse, this could have been a fantastic issue for the party to use across the board in elections this fall.

The practice of decorating legislation with billions of dollars in pet projects and federal contracts is thriving on Capitol Hill - despite public outrage that helped flip control of Congress two years ago.The Wilmington Star

Of course it’s still thriving. It doesn’t matter which party Congress flips to if it’s still the same people there plundering our tax dollars to buy votes from lobbyists and special interest groups for their reelection campaigns.

A new earmarking cycle begins this month as the House and Senate Appropriations committees reveal spending bills for the 2009 budget year that starts Oct. 1. The House committee alone has 23,438 earmark requests before it, so many that its Web site for accepting requests froze up, and the deadline for receiving them had to be extended. Lawmakers are unlikely to obtain many earmarks in time for Election Day, but they may tout them in hundreds of press releases anyway.

Defenders of earmarks note that the Founding Fathers explicitly gave Congress control over spending. And earmarks make up less than 2 percent of the annual spending bills passed each year.

Oh, yeah. I’m sure Washington and Jefferson were all about this process when they were risking their lives and personal fortunes on creating an independent nation based on expanded liberty and minimal government. As for that two percent, that could go a long way to helping pay down the national debt.

Remember last summer when the American people manage to shut down the switchboards on Capitol Hill by flooding them with phone calls to stop the George Bush shamnesty?  Remember how the powers that be in the GOP kept telling us we were wrong and that if we legalize the illegals under a Republican president they’ll vote Republican?  Of course, we knew they were wrong.

A new Gallup poll just came out showing Barack Obama getting 62% of the Latino vote while McCain garners only 29%.  Now isn’t that interesting?  Aside from Bush, who other than John McCain was the biggest face in this push for legalization?  According to the logic of Bush, McCain, and Martinez and others shouldn’t this poll be the other way around?  McCain was out there lobbying hard for them after all.