Archive for May 19th, 2008

CNN’s Lou Dobbs: Stupid is as stupid does classic!

May 19, 2008

Casting aside his normal logical thinking Lou Dobbs put on his trusty tin foil hats and waxed eloquent about drug prohibition. He should have read up, I suppose, on William F. Buckley Jr. or Paul Craig Roberts about the “War on Drugs.”

I am very anti drug use, but I am even more anti drug war, period. During my more than twenty years working the streets and other hell holes of greater Denver I saw precisely three, that is correct three, people die from drugs, as in a personal overdose. I saw many more harmed by the drug war. From a fine father, and Sergeant from Adams County Sheriff’s Department, to small children hit by Drug Gang pistoleros fighting over turf. It all comes down to some very simple things. If you are for the drug war, you are for making the worlds miscreants into rich people. End the damned thing, the drug war. least some great moralizer like Dan Caplis (KHOW.com ) come and say that the end of alcohol prohibition led to greater abuse look at the bigger picture. Yes, it is true that alcohol abuse rose to record levels after prohibition was lifted. But, after a year and a few months, it dropped, and has never reached that level among the populace again. in other words, it lowered the percentage, and actual numbers of abusers. That would lead me to believe that something along the same lines would happen with drugs, should they be legalized. I would still like regulation of medicinal drugs, heck, Doctors need to be able to trust the medicines that they prescribe.

In any case, enjoy what follows.

CNN’s Lou Dobbs Is Clueless When It Comes to the Drug War

Mexico is experiencing a bloodbath right now thanks to drug prohibition. Drug wars are killing more Mexicans each year than Americans are perishing in Iraq. Three thousand Mexicans have died since January 2007. Lou Dobbs addressed the issue on Friday, May 9, after Esteban Robles Espinosa, the head of Mexico City’s investigative police was assassinated. Mr. Espinosa’s death came on the heels of Federal Police Chief Edgar Millan being gunned down Thursday outside his Mexico City home — the tenth federal police officer killed by suspected drug cartel members in three weeks. Lou Dobbs was outraged by the mass killings and wondered whether Washington is paying attention.

While I appreciate Lou Dobbs’ frustration with the mass killings, his analysis is totally clueless and his “solutions” will no doubt cause more harm than good. Here are three myths from Lou Dobbs that deserve attention.

Dobbs Myth No. 1 — Washington Is Not Paying Enough Attention and Needs to Step Up Drug War

Lou Dobbs talks about our elected officials not paying attention and then quotes the White House press secretary calling on Congress to approve the Merida initiative. The law would provide funding to the Mexican government to “break the drug pipeline that ends up on America’s streets.” Far from not doing anything, our government’s policy actually fuels the killings. For forty years we have been waging a “war on drugs” and “pushing” our failed zero-tolerance policies on other countries. Just what does our $40 billion-a-year drug war get us? Our prisons are exploding with nonviolent drug offenders, thousands die from street violence generated by prohibition’s black market along the border, and drugs remain as plentiful and easy to obtain as ever.

In 2006, Mexican President Vicente Fox urged a bill that would drop criminal penalties for small amounts of drugs, but backed down after the uproar from the Bush administration. The problem is not what Washington is not doing, but what it is doing.

Dobbs Myth No. 2 — We Need to Amplify the Drug War to Protect the Kids

Lou Dobbs and the Drug War Industrial Complex routinely argue that drug prohibition is there to “protect” the kids. Dobbs’ correspondent Carrie Lee recycled the talking points from the ONDCP’s press release and said in the same Mexico violence segment, “A new report from the White House finds teens in this country using marijuana are putting themselves at higher risk for serious mental health disorders and even suicide.” Ms. Lee then goes on to say, “Most of the marijuana produced in Mexico is destined for U.S. drug markets.”

Far from protecting kids, drug war-funded education programs have consistently misinformed our youth, creating an atmosphere of mistrust and disbelief. Despite 30 years of “Just Say No” rhetoric, half of all high-school seniors will smoke marijuana before they graduate. Teens say it is easier to get marijuana than alcohol, as drug dealers never check identification. The bitter irony of the drug war is that the same week the high-level Mexican police were murdered in the streets, 75 college students at San Diego State University were arrested for selling drugs. Yeah, the drug war is really protecting the kids.

Dobbs Myth No. 3 — “Open Border Advocates Are Responsible for a Losing Role in Our Drug War”

What is a Lou Dobbs segment without slamming the “open border” advocates? Now Dobbs is blaming them for drugs coming into the country. We can’t keep drugs out of maximum security prisons, but he thinks we are going to keep drugs out of the United States? Drug prohibition makes plants like marijuana and coca incredibly valuable. We can build as many fences and place as many agents on the border as we want, but as there are huge profits to be made, there will be people ready to smuggle and even to kill over the control of the massive, global drug market.

Lou Dobbs and the drug czar have huge platforms to spin their version of the drug war and their desire for a “Drug-Free America.” We have tried to eradicate and incarcerate our way out of this problem for 40 years. There is nothing in the coca or marijuana plant that caused the 3,000 deaths in Mexico since 2007. Rather, it is prohibition that creates a profit motive that people are willing to kill for. Remember, when alcohol consumption was illegal in this country, we had Al Capone and shootouts in the streets. Today, no one dies over the sale of a beer.

It is time for an honest and open international debate about controlling, taxing and regulating illegal drugs so we can find an exit strategy from this unwinnable war. The health and well-being of the people of Mexico and the United States depends on it.

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Tony Newman is director of media relations for the Drug Policy Alliance.

source: http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/85547/

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The left wants, and needs global warming

May 19, 2008

“[The left] wants and needs man-made Global Warming as a way to counter what it considers the most potent threats to its agenda—faith and family. The left must have its scapegoat. This is absolutely essential. For Marx it was the bourgeoisie. For the ‘60s New Left, it was America —spelled with a ‘k.’ White males are the villains of multiculturalism. Now, it’s babies and retrograde churches that are destroying the planet. The environment has assumed the role of the proletariat, the Third World and racial minorities in earlier models of damnation and salvation. In particular, the left cringes at the thought of Catholics, evangelicals, Orthodox Jews and Mormons having lots of children—passing their misogynistic, homophobic, species-centric, suicidally archaic worldview to the next generation. The left has always worried about the reproductive patterns of certain people. As Jonah Goldberg explains… from the beginning, racial eugenics was a project of the left—or progressives, as they called themselves then and now. H.G. Wells, a hero of pre-World War II progressivism (a socialist who wrote science fiction, much like Al Gore), said that in order for humankind to move to the sunny uplands of utopia, ‘swarms of black and brown, and dirty (lower class) white and yellow people’ would have to be discouraged from breeding —or physically eliminated. Moreover, Goldberg explains, ‘The foremost institution combating eugenics around the world was the Catholic Church.’ For those like Oliver ‘Buzz’ Thomas… hordes of rapidly multiplying Catholics, Mormons, evangelicals and Orthodox Jews have taken the place of ‘swarms of black and brown, and dirty white and yellow peoples.’ The irony here is that, unlike Global Warming, rapidly declining birthrates is a reality, not a theory.” —Don Feder

Don Feder nailed this one! Source: Patriot Post

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On Anchor Babies

May 19, 2008

source: Earl1911

The problem we have today of “anchor” children (of illegal aliens) being granted citizenship, then providing the means for families of these illegal aliens to be allowed to enter our country – would not be an issue if the Constitution were being observed and applied.
 
The law that permits children born here to have immediate citizenship is contained in the 14th Amendment.
 
But was the Fourteenth Amendment Constitutionally Adopted? Not only NO, but HELL NO!
 
Many illegal methods were used by the radical, anti-Constitutional congress that followed the War between the States to force a major change in the balance of power between the federal and state governments. One method was by illegally injecting unratified amendments into our constitution.

When the concept of “State’s Rights” (10th Amendment to the Constitution) is brought up, generally people consider the issue belonging to the Southern states. However the South was not the exclusive advocate of the concept of State’s Rights and interposition. In earlier days it was the New England and Northern states that were the first to advocate and stand for these principles. They were also more successful in their efforts to use such to protect their vested interests. In 1808 Connecticut and Massachusetts endorsed interposition; the famous New England Secession Convention was held at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1814; the House of Representatives of Massachusetts in 1846 declared the war with Mexico to be unconstitutional; and many Northern states successfully nullified the fugitive slave acts, thereby overruling both the federal Congress and the federal Supreme Court.

Following the War between the States, the radical congress had revenge in mind. In its zeal to punish, plunder, and reconstruct the South, it greatly increased the congress at the expense of the states. Part of its tactics was the imposition of “forced” amendments, adopted without Constitutional justification and procedure. The process of adopting the Fourteenth Amendment, for example, was an example of repeated irregularities that gives insight into the glaring arguments regarding the legitimacy of all of the reconstruction era congressional acts.

In Ex parte Milligan, for example, the United States Supreme Court ruled that martial law could not be constitutionally imposed in the absence of war or rebellion and in areas where the civilian courts were functioning. The Reconstruction Act of March 1867 was a brazen and flagrant violation of this decision. Also, since congress had declared that the Southern states were without legal governments, it had trapped itself in a contradiction. Earlier Congress had accepted the ratification by the Southern states to the Thirteenth Amendment, but now Congress had declared these same states to be illegal. It was also apparent that this act denied civil rights to upwards of nine million Southerners. As such, it violated the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process and was in direct violation of constitutional prohibitions against bills of attainder.*

To make the point of just how absurd it is to contend that the Fourteenth Amendment was legally ratified, assume the following:

1. Assume that the amendment had been constitutionally proposed, then;

2. Assume that the ratifications of Tennessee, Oregon and West Virginia were proper, then:

3. Assume that the rescission by New Jersey and Ohio were illegal.

THEN you are left with the problem that still Congress is six votes short of the number necessary for ratification.

Now comes the interesting part. To obtain the ratification of the remaining states, Congress required the Southern states to ratify in order to get back into the Union. But remember, states can vote on ratification of a constitutional amendment only if they were duly recognized as governments at the time they acted on the amendment. But Congress had already declared these “states” to be illegal governments and not a part of the Union – therefore their ratifications, according to constitutional principle, cannot be counted toward final ratification. Thus we are left with an amendment that was never ratified!

But let’s not stop there. The Southern States were forced to ratify the amendments. After learning that the South had rejected the Fourteenth Amendment, Senator James R. Doolittle of Wisconsin declared that the north would “march upon the them and force them to adopt it at the point of the bayonet.” Their ratification was therefore also illegal on the basis of duress.

Clearly, the Fourteenth Amendment was never constitutionally ratified, even if it had ever been constitutionally proposed.

* NOTE: A Bill of Attainder is described as a legislative act, no matter what its form, that applies either to named individuals or to easily ascertainable members of a group in such a way as to inflict punishment on them without a judicial trial.

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Selective Service …

May 19, 2008

I don’t know who got this started, but in the past week I have had it sent to me from 8 different sources, enjoy!

MSN NicknameHellbentChuck  (Original Message) Sent: 5/14/2008 5:36 PM

New Direction for the war on terrorists.

Send Service Vets over 60

I am over 60 and the Armed Forces think I’m too old to track down terrorists.. You can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got the whole thing ass backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn’t be able to join a military unit until you’re at least 35.
For starters:
Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.

Young guys haven’t lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. My back hurts! I can’t sleep, I’m tired and hungry. We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some ass hole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.

An 18 -year-old doesn’t even like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the hell.. Besides, like I said, I’m tired and can’t sleep and since I’m already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch.

If captured we couldn’t spill the beans because we’d forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.

Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We’re used to getting screamed and yelled at, and we’re used to soft food. We’ve also developed an appreciation for guns. We’ve been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.

They could lighten up on the obstacle course, how ever. I’ve been in combat and didn’t see a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. I can hear the Drill Sgt. in the New army now, Get down and give me … ER … one.

Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I’ve never seen anyone outrun a bullet.

An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He’s still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn’t figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head!

These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm’s way.

Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see right now is a couple of million pissed-off old farts with attitude and automatic weapons who know that their best years are already behind them.

If nothing else, put us on border patrol…we will have it secured the first night!

Share this with your senior friends. It’s purposely in big type so they can read it.

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