A FANTASTIC FATHER'S DAY GIFT!

Here's a little paragraph that appeared in a column in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

"When a Fair Tax rally draws 4,500 people, some of whom drive hundreds of miles, as the one did Wednesday night, you gotta take the movement seriously. And that's those who got in the door. Another 2,000 were turned away. U.S. Rep. John Linder (R-Ga.) and Neal Boortz have started something."

Father's Day is approaching.  A few weeks ago I signed 1000 copies of The FairTax Book for Father's Day gifts.  Here's a link for you to order your's now! 

HERE'S AN IDEA! LET'S LIMIT FREEDOM!

Some organization, the Consumer Federation of America, has  has come up with an amazingly stupid idea on how to combat high energy usage.  They want to ban advertising of gas-guzzling SUVs on television [pdf].  They have other brilliant ideas, such as an SUV buyback program.  Just who would buy them back? Well, I would suppose this gaggle of idiots would propose that either the government (which means the taxpayers) or the automakers buy them back.  Either way the cost is passed down to individuals; either taxpayers or shareholders.  They also want a federal gas tax that would stabilize, as they call it, gas prices at about four bucks a gallon.  Oh .. and they say they have polls showing strong consumer support for their ideas. 

In the America of 2006 you don't have to look far to find someone who will tell you of all of the problems we can solve by just limiting freedom with more government controls and regulations.  We have an obesity problem, why not ban the advertising of foods that exceed a certain caloric or fat content?  How about a cheeseburger buyback program?

The really sad thing is that these idiots actually manage to get media attention.

ILLEGAL ALIENS HIT THE LOTTERY

The Senate has passed, and will now send to a conference committee with the house, a bill on illegal immigration.  Here is how the bill proposes the 12 million illegal aliens in this country be handled:

1. Those who have been in the country illegally for between 2 and 5 years...get to join a temporary worker program.  That means they get to stay here.  That means their illegal actions are being forgiven and rewarded.  That's amnesty.
    
2. Those who have been in the country illegally longer would go on an 11-year probation, then get citizenship. Again ... .amnesty.  And just how in the hell are they going to prove they've been here for more than 5 years?  Why, with the same forged documents they used to get jobs!
    
3. Oh...and they'd have to learn English, pay a penalty and clear up any back taxes. OK ...so they have to buy their amnesty.  And learn English?  Mark these words.  They'll have to answer a multiple-choice quiz on some simple English phrases.  That's it.  You could learn what they will have to know in one weekend.

There is no denying this .. there is no getting around it ... this is amnesty.  Yet another reward for the lawbreakers.  Depending on your motivation, these Senators have either listened to their leaders promising them a new era of Democrat control with the votes of millions of new Hispanic voters, or they've listened to the businesses in this country who have profited through the use of cheaper illegal labor.  Who aren't they listening to?  No secret there.  They aren't listening to us. 

You have to wonder if Mexican President Vicente Fox brought a few suitcases of cash with him on his recent trip to the United States.  First of all, this plan not only does nothing about the 12 million illegals here.  Does anyone really think the illegals that have been here less than 2 years are really going to be returned to Mexico?  Fat chance.

Second, what effect do they think these kinds of laws are going to have on future illegal aliens?  The message will be heard loud and clear: break into the United States, buy your time for 2 years doing odd jobs...then you get a guest worker program.  We're encouraging people to break the law.  Why not just take down the fence and tell everybody to come on down?

Now the House says that there is not going to be any amnesty. No way, no how.  Ain't gonna happen.  Sorry ... my money is on the Senate bill and amnesty.  Here's something else you can bank on.  The Mexican invasion of the United States will continue unabated.  Sure, they're promising to seal the borders in this bill. They made the same exact promise in their last amnesty bill in 1986.  Eleven million invaders have crossed since then.  There is no will to stop them now.

WHITE HOUSE CAVES ON HOUSE PAPERS

The FBI raided Representative William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana's office...seizing documents in a corruption investigation.  The FBI had a search warrant.  It all happened just the same way it would happen if they wanted to search YOUR office.  From the minute it went down...members of the House...both Democrats and sadly Republicans...have been spinning around on their eyebrows and spitting wooden nickels.  They think he should have had a warning the Feds were coming, so Jefferson could destroy the evidence.

Congress called it a separation of powers issue.  The executive branch overstepped their bounds.  So yesterday, President Bush...the head of that executive branch...caved in.  Imagine that  He ordered the documents sealed for 45 days while people try to figure out what to do.  Nobody has access to those documents for 45 days.  This has probably crippled the FBI's case.

What good is 45 days going to do?  What will be different then from now?  The only explanation is that the House lawyers want to go through every document and decide what the FBI should get. 

So .. .why did Bush cave to the Imperial Congress?  Perhaps it's his way of trying to get conservative Republicans back on his side after his failure to handle the issue of the Mexican invasion.  At any rate ... it's clear that our elected officials -- many of them anyway -- clearly believe themselves to be above the law.

It will be interesting to see what happens 45 days from now.

GEORGE GALLOWAY BACK IN ACTION

Imagine if that was said in this country by a member of Congress.  No never mind.  I forgot.  It would be bad if a citizen were to say something like this .. .but we have to remember that if you're a member of congress the law simply doesn't apply to you.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

With a few inexpensive items a redneck just may have come up with the best way to capture illegal aliens as they cross our border.  More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

The Smoking Gun has an archive of correspondence between President Bush and Ken Lay from when Bush was Governor of Texas.

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