Apparently ticked at spending and  snooping by the government under GOP control, Bob Barr has left the GOP for the Libertarian Party, saying they practice what they preach.

How does he know?  When and where has the LP controlled a state or Federal branch?  Maybe they would practice what they preach, but they haven't been given the chance by the electorate.

I like much of the Libertarian outlook and ideas, but I am a Republican primarily because, in real life, it is either going to be the Democrats or Republicans in control.  My thoughts on this are too invovevd and wordy to write down now.  I need to sleep.  Goodnight!

Yesterday, I posted a letter to the Pasadena Star-News that I thought had it all wrong.

Well. Here’s a letter from Lawrence Berg of San Gabriel that I think is right-on.


I’m so glad Mr. Berg wrote that letter.  Isn’t it just a hoot when the Leftists do everything they can to destroy or counterfeit the bedrock institutions of our society, and then when we respond to their radical activism and their use of judicial imperialism, they say “Don’t you have more important things on which to focus?”  Well, apparently THEY don’t, because they spend a lot of time, money, and energy pushing their anti-family, anti-American messages through the media, in academia, in the courts, in various organizations (including “churches”), and in the streets.

Other great time-tested Leftist tactics are:

The Bogus Compromise – Making an outrageous, extreme false demand or claim in order to reach the real goal, which won’t seem as extreme in comparison.  Example: I felt uncomfortable, so I’m demanding $5 million from you.  Okay, okay, I’ll settle for $2.5 million.

The Hate Card – “You’re a bigot who is filled with hate"...if you don’t enthusiastically cheer every bizarre thing we do and if you stand up to protect your own convictions and interests.

The Closet Card – “You must secretly be one of us...” because self-hate is the only explanation there could possibly be for hesitating to enthusiastically cheer every bizarre thing we do.  This is applied mostly by people confused about the proper use of genitals and/or the proper clothing to wear who may or may not have surgery to remove perfectly healthy body parts to aid in pretending to be someone they’re not.  It has also been used, in modified form, in the “immigration” debate, as in “How can you be against [invasion by illegal aliens who commit identity theft] when your ancestors were [legal, sponsored] immigrants?

We Are Your Family and Neighbors – “You can’t possibly object to this request or this behavior and you have to enthusiastically cheer on everything we want and do, because you have a family member that is one of us or you use products and services made possible by contributions from one of us.”  Never mind that THEY have family members they don’t care one bit about offending or harming, and they benefit from societal contributions made by conservatives, even Bible-thumping Christians.

Don't fall for these ploys.  If you're an American citizen, you have just as much right to vote your convictions and opinions as anyone else.  Vote how YOU think is best.  Support and defend what YOU think is worthwhile.  That's how democratic representative republics work.  They don't work so well when everyone caters to a fringe minority that distinguishes itself through destructive behaviors and reliance on the Nanny State.

Every once in a while, I just have to pick apart a letter published in a newspaper.  This one comes from Topper Smith of Pasadena, California who wrote into the Pasadena Star-News:


Has he?  While every American military death is to be mourned, have we really lost that many people?  And many of the recruitment goals are being met, no?  I know, it is horrible to put an all-volunteer military to work.  Shame on Bush.  You'd think we'd been attacked and threatened or something.


His successful tax reforms have been for everyone who pays taxes, and they've worked quite well.  The economy is doing well, and isn't it the economy, stupid?  As for tax shelters... Bush didn't write the tax laws.  Shelters and loopholes are part of the drawback of having a graduated income tax with various incentives and discouragements in an attempt at social engineering. If we went to a system of privatization, user fees, tariffs, and value-added taxes, things would be a lot more fair, and everyone who made an effort would be better off.  Of course, that "everyone" would include the rich, so you'd probably be against such a system.


Permitted?  Tell me, how do you stop jobs from "going overseas"?  Are you going to force a company to only set up new workplaces in the U.S.?  How do you stop someone from shutting down an office or a factory?  Are you also against "foreign" companies opening up offices, stores, and factories here?  Businesses (employers) are going to set up/move/expand their operations where it will be most beneficial for them.  That's going to be based on many factors, including laws and regulations, labor pool, labor rates, access to materials and utilities, real estate, shipping, access to consumers, etc.  If you are so worried about jobs "going overseas", START YOUR OWN BUSINESS, and keep it here.  You may learn a few things about why jobs are "going overseas". Would you want to be told where you can buy a house?  Probably not.  Business owners are free to do with their businesses as they please, and if they find it is better to buy or build "a house" elsewhere, that's life.

We live in a shrinking world.  Get used to it.  It benefits us all in the long run if more of the world has developed economies that trade with us.  Make sure you 1) have something to offer your neighbor that is of use, and 2) own as much as you can... then you can continue to make a living and you'll have more say in how things are done.


He should have gotten the Federal government out of health care entirely.


He should have gotten the Federal government out of education entirely.


Things seem to be pretty good.  But I do remember our military fighting a war, and war is costly.  But, hey, who cares if our civilization is destroyed as long as the treasury is "solvent" to your liking?


A Democrat President would never do such a thing.


Seems to me every single President has left citizens in "squalor and poverty", if you think having to choose between cable or satellite TV as squalor.  Since when is it the President's job to find you gainful employment and good financial habits?


Which rights would those be?  I want specifics.


Oh, now we'll never be Prom Queen!


(That's "seminar letter-writer", for those of you in Rio Linda.)


That would take approval by the Democrats.  Seeing as how helpful they were in filling judical vacancies, what makes you think they'd approve McCain?


What, and overturn two elections?  I though we learned under Bill Clinton that shouldn't be done.  But impeached for what, exactly?


Really...and what would he do that is so much better than Bush?  McCain, by the way, had a direct role ln limiting freedom of speech in campaign finance "reform".


Wait... either you forgot how Bush is killing us all through global warming and his hurricane machine, or the editor cut it out.

Bush works to save your butt from genocidal terrorist scum and all you can do is bash him. He's got his flaws... too much spending and not enough action on the border... but he's better than sore loser Al Gore and John Kerry.

I created the e-mail address I use on this blog just for this blog, because I knew a lot of spam could result.  Sure enough, it seems every day I get a message or two or three from someone in Africa who is involved with a wrongly-killed or imprisoned millionaire, or some lottery official in the UK.  Wow, there sure are a lot of people who want to give me millions of U.S. dollars for doing almost nothing!

What's curious is that I'll get a message from this address:

obahchinyere@yahoo.com

But when I hit reply, my response is directed to:

qassab950@yahoo.co.in

Either way, I hope listing these addresses here will help these accounts get full of e-mail messages from OTHER scammers.  I'm thinking about making it a regular practice.

obahchinyere@yahoo.com
qassab950@yahoo.co.in
obahchinyere@yahoo.com
qassab950@yahoo.co.in
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Preface: I am a Christian who believes charity should be voluntary and has supported improving life for the poor in Mexico and other Latin American countries as well as other places of need around the world.  I also believe in conserving resources and that one of the primary function of government is to ensure order and protect citizens from foreign threats.


The current “immigration” situation is a good example of why we need a more libertarian system in the U.S.  If we had one, it wouldn’t be such a problem that we’re going to have both a President and Congress bent on absorbing Mexico’s outcasts and border-straddling smugglers - the President to supply cheap labor to business and the Congress because it thinks it will ensure a growth in Democrat voters.

Oh sure, many of the Democrats elected or re-elected to Congress claimed to be as tough or tougher on the border as their Republican opponents, but their party leadership is clearly in favor of rewarding illegal aliens, thereby making people going through the legal immigration process look like chumps.  (Thank you, you lesson-teachers who protested by not voting GOP this time around.)

One of the most basic functions of a national government is to protect its borders.  Why we didn’t see a significant mobilization to the borders on September 12, 2001, I don’t know.  Is the President really that confident in other anti-terror efforts?  Seems to me that the borders need to be regulated to try to keep terrorists, criminals, disease, foreign pests, and contraband from killing us, costing us money, and lowering our quality of life.

Maybe you live in the part of the country where you don’t see a problem, especially if foreign terrorists here illegally haven’t  been caught planning an attack where you live.  Maybe you don’t have a backyard fruit tree or an agriculture business threatened by insects brought back in smuggled produce when an illegal alien returned from visiting the family that still remains in Mexico.  Maybe you’re not stuck in traffic each and every day of the week on highways clogged with illegal aliens driving around without licenses and insurance.  Maybe you’re not asked to make an extra effort to conserve electricity and water because your utilities are overwhelmed by your neighbors who have way too many people living in their dwellings, none of whom are supposed to be here.  Maybe you’re not dealing with crime, ranging from murder to graffiti, perpetrated by illegal aliens and others let out of prison early because they are overcrowded with illegal aliens.  Maybe you haven’t had to wait an unreasonable amount of time in an emergency room because illegal aliens are there using it as a doctor’s office.  Maybe you haven’t experienced your public school being overcrowded and overburdened with the children of illegal aliens.  Maybe you don’t live in a neighborhood overrun with code violations and overcrowded occupancy directly related to illegal aliens.  Maybe you’re not bombarded every day with ads, paperwork, and signs in Spanish, and with Spanish radio stations bleeding into the radio station to which you’re trying to listen, all in an area that has been part of an English-language country for eight generations or so.  Maybe you’re not subjected to the U.S. flag being replaced or shunned in favor of the flag of Mexico, in an area that has been part of the U.S. for over 150 years.

Even if you’re not experiencing these problems directly (yet), thanks to Federal funding, you are paying for them.  It's bad enough that the citizens have figured out that they can vote themselves "free" money.  Now, the rest of the world, especially our neighbor to the south, sees they can cash in on our children’s future earnings, too.

Before I go further, let me clarify some terms:

Citizen: Anyone born in the U.S. or that came to the U.S. and went through a legal naturalization process.

Immigrant: Someone who came to the U.S. legally and plans to stay, either by becoming a citizen (in which case he or she will not longer be an immigrant) or through some other legal means.

Illegal alien: Anyone who is in the U.S. illegally.  Could be here for life, could be jumping back and forth across the border.

Amnesty: Anything that grants an alien who came here or stayed here illegally a pass on any single test, standard, penalty, or cost and/or grants legal status in this country other than the standard legal immigration and naturalization process undertaken by current on hopeful immigrants following the existing laws.

Okay, now that we have that out of the way…

The corrupt government of Mexico is shameful.  While taking a strict stand on illegal trespassers breaching their own southern border, they encourage their outcasts to come to the U.S. to take unfair advantage of our health care, our schools, our infrastructure, our various forms of welfare…and then wire money back home.  This is their second highest grossing export, behind oil.  Then, they have the audacity to complain about our attempts to secure our own border, and to refuse to hand over murderers who might face the death penalty here.

With things being so bad in Mexico and so great in the U.S., it is only natural that some people will do whatever they can to come here, even illegally.  The U.S. is the still the land of opportunity, after all, even with the attempts to socialize as much of our system as possible.  However, we are not obligated to leave our border unprotected in the same sense that we are not obligated to leave the front doors of our residences open all night.

We know what amnesty plans do.  President Reagan signed off on one in the mid 1980s and it encouraged tens of millions of people to come here illegally.  That is one major reason why there should be no amnesty plan or any sort until the border is under control.

That takes me to what should be done.

1. Control the border sea Ports, airports with effective security.  This will include tracking those who are supposed to be here temporarily to make sure they leave when they are supposed to, verifying the legitimacy of marriages to citizens, finding and destroying tunnels, etc.  This should be done in a way that allows trade and allows travel.

2. Speed up the immigration and citizenship process for those who are doing things legally and really want to become a productive, self-sustaining U.S. citizen with allegiance to our country.

3, Privatization.  I know it will never happen, but I can dream.  Most of the non-terror problems associated with illegal aliens would no longer be government problems or problems at all if there was privatization and we didn’t use payroll taxes to generate revenue, but rather user fees, tariffs, and “consumption” taxes.  Think about it… if health care was privatized and hospitals were not forced to care for illegal aliens who don't pay, if school was separated from state, if utilities and infrastructure was funded entirely by users, if the various forms of welfare were privatized,… many of the problems would take care of themselves.  No, people would not be starving and sick in the streets.  First of all, without freebies, some of the invaders would be more likely to return home or stay home in the first place and try to fix things there.  Secondly, private charity would fill the gap in need, especially if taxes were proportionately reduced.

4. Deport illegal aliens in the prison system after they have served their time.

5. Deport illegal alien parents even if they have anchor babies.  Any anchor baby can apply to return when he or she reaches emancipation.

6. Prosecute vigorously and punish severely identity theft and related fraud.

7. Voter identification verification.  Punish vigorously and punish severely anyone who isn’t a citizen of the U.S. caught trying to vote in our elections.

8. English-only for most official government business, including voting.  If someone doesn’t know our common language well enough to vote in it, how can they be making an informed decision as a voter?  This would be at the Federal level and in most states and cities.  Maybe some exceptions (Puerto Rico, for example), especially for cities founded in other languages, although citizens in cities that have been in the U.S. for generations really should know English well enough by now.

9. Code enforcement.  Forget trying to be “culturally sensitive”.  We’re in the U.S.  Be sensitive to our culture.

10. Only after the border is secure, offer some sort of amnesty plan ONLY if it can be done in a way that doesn’t reward lawbreaking and punish those who have waited in line to legally immigrate.

11. “Until” privatization and tax reform:
a) Bill foreign countries for services rendered to their citizens.  Yes, I know, we’re unlikely to see any reimbursement, but we should make the point anyway.
b) High tariffs on individual money transfers to the countries that “owe” money.
c) Public school boards, administrators, and teachers should not be allowed to cater to illegal aliens.  Teach to the students here legally.  If the illegal alien families can adapt to that, then great.
d) Crack down on employers.  Once assistance and payroll taxes are changed, employers should be allowed to hire whomever they want to, but until then we need to crack down.  Who will do the work?  Citizens and immigrants will.  They may have to be paid more, and we may need to pay a little more for our groceries, but the security and the savings elsewhere will be worth it.  Unemployment is really low right now, so if more help is really needed, a true temporary guest worker program can be implemented.
e) When infrastructure organizations and utilities ask for conservation or for bonds or other forms of tax increases for capital expansion, tell your elected officials “NO” because you are tired of supporting illegal aliens.


Now, the reality is, unless we put a lot of pressure on the GOP leaders and the incoming Congress, we’re going to see some sort of amnesty plan and the border will continue to be unprotected.  I also know going to a more libertarian system is extremely unlikely to ever happen, and will be more so after the post-amnesty influx.  Too many people have been convinced that the government is providing them free services or that wealth redistribution is okay because someone has more than them.

There are, however, other ways of protecting our country and preserving our way of life.

1. Pressure your state and local officials to take action.  California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, for example, signed up to work with Great Britain on “global warming”, and so even though he says immigration is a Federal issue, perhaps he can be persuaded to be consistent in taking on "Federal issues" where the situation warrants.

2. Support organizations putting pressure on employers and fencing/patrolling the borders.

3. Boycott countries and products of countries that are sending us their citizens illegally.  I know this one is not likely to be possible given the global nature of our manufacturing companies these days, but why not write to Mexico and explain that you changed plans to vacation there because of their refusal help?

4. Demand that codes be enforced in your neighborhood.  Sue if you have to.

5. Pull your kids out public schools.  There are countless reasons to do so already, but if your kids are out and you can convince others to do the same, you’re all going to be less inclined to support the school fundraisers, bond issues, and other taxes, and you can tell them why.  Feel free to still show up at school board meetings and the like as long as your money is paying for public schools.  Yeah, it’s not fair to have to pay for school twice, but it will be worth it if your kid gets a better education.

6. Encourage non-tourist businesses to go English-only in their ads, their signage, etc.  Products are shipped everywhere, so labels and packaging should be expected to have multiple languages, but there’s no need for your local grocery store to mail you an ad in Spanish, or for billboards on U.S interstates to be in Spanish.  These businesses are convinced that they are increasing their market share with Spanish ads… tell them they risk losing YOUR share of the market.  If people are going to live here, they need to learn our common language.


We must take steps the protect ourselves from terrorists and from foreign invaders.  And yes, it is an invasion when 12-20 million people, not including the millions of others granted amnesty in the 1986 agreement, illegally enter a country, especially when they make demands of the citizens and raise a foreign flag.  We must also prevent further balkanization in the U.S.  Would it be extremely difficult to round up 20 million people, many of them with careers and houses?  It sure would… but if we implement some of what I talked about above, we won’t have to, and those that are here to mooch will leave on their own.  More importantly, we will severely reduce future invasion.

Ana Beatriz Cholo of the Associated Press tells us about about California teacher Bill Morgan's way of teaching the young skulls full of mush about Thanksgiving.

Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered" them. The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.

Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.

He has replaced it with a more realistic look at the complex relationship between Indians and white settlers.

"Realisitic"?  Okay, if you wan realistic, how about when one of the kids gets sick or injured, you send them to a shaman?

Clearly, the arrival of the Europeans meant the end of life as the natives knew it, and there were a lot of evils perpetrated by the Europeans and their descendants, and culture clashes and strife between the societies.  That's what happens when one culture moves in on another.  People are people, after all.  That's why U.S. citizens have an interest in maintaining a strong military, regulating immigration, and controlling the border.

It is not good, however, to pretend that the natives never had any problems, that they always did the politically correct thing themselves, and that there was no such thing as fighting, war, or disease before the Europeans arrived.  That's just not true.  The Europeans also brought some useful technology.  There is no way North America was going to stay as it was before the Pilgrims arrived.  Even if the natives would have retained control over the entire continent, they would have had to do it by adapting some things from Europe and Western civilization.

Finally, as much as this upsets people, I personally think the natives were better off overall if they heard about God's visit to Earth in the person of Jesus Christ and the forgiveness of sins that Jesus provides.  Unless people delude themselves (and many do today), they have some awareness that there is a God and that they have committed moral crimes against God.  Finding out that there is forgiveness for those moral crimes is good news to someone who has a guilty conscience.

It's time to check in on my inbox.  The only place I have this e-mail address anywhere is right here at The Playful Walrus.  I have not submitted it or used it anywhere else.  So, the spammers got my address from here.

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Dear friend,
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    My name is Mr. Solomon Jefferson, a divorcee, I am a
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Basically, I was involved in Agricultural production,
until August (2003), when the government of Robert
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Dang it, that seems to be happening a lot to Africans who somehow find me, of all people.

He implored the services of his war veterans to
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accused (correctly) of being behind the violent
occupation of white-owned commercial farms in which an
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least, over hundreds white farmers and black settlers
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As at this moment, most of us have grudgingly gone
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respond positively. If you
are still in doubt after the receipt of this mail,
please do not hesitate
to contact me and ask question(s) that might hinder
your decision on this matter.

I await your favorable response.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Solomon Jefferson

Keep waiting.  Message #3:

From sanou bello Thu Nov  9 12:18:13 2006
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DR.SANOU BELLO
Dear,

I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa,
Ouagadougou . I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may
be capable of handling this business transaction which i explained below;

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars (Ten
million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 2000 
in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin (We want to present you as his busines
asociate )to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.

The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
Unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner .

We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me and my
colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentages indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of the deceased
customer. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the
text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

I expect that you contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.

Hoping to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully,
DR .SANOU BELLO
Accounts & Audit Department ,
Bank of Africa

Nb.also give me your telephone and fax numbers for easy comunication with
you.

It's amazing how much money there is for me in Africa!  Message #4 must have been really, really important because it was sent twice, and it was repeated multiple times in the same e-mail:

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Greetings to your family,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a
day that people meet and become great friends/ business partners. I am DR.
IDRIS RIMI, currently Head of Corporate Affairs Department with a reputable
bank here in Burkina Faso.

I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am about to reveal to you.I have an urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you. On June 5th,2000, a German
engineer who Head the BMW Company here in Burkina Faso Mr.Christian Eich
made a (Fixed deposit) for 60 calendar months, valued at
17,500,000(Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Pounds only) in my
bank(BANK OF AFRICA)with its website, www.bkofafrica.net and I happen to be
his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently.

The maturity date for this deposit contract was last 3rd of April 2005.
Before this date, I have tried my possible best to locate a Next of Kin to
late Mr. Eich, but all efforts prooved abortive, because all his family,
including his Son In-Law and children died in the plane crash of Concorde
Air France Flight AF4590 which took place on 31st July 2000, some months
after he did the deposit in my bank.

You can read more stories about the plane crash by visiting this
website,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

With the recent change of Central Bank Government in my country and with
their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating terrorism aid in
the Burkina Faso.By end of January this year, the Federal Government and the
Banking Government has pass a new Financial Control Law which will give the
Government authority to interrogate all Foriegn account owners of above 5
million Pounds to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for
terrorism support.

If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, by December the
Government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot
provide the account owner to explain the source of the money since he is
late.I decided to utilize this life time opportunity, instead of Government
confiscating them, but I cannot directly claim the money without the help of
a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the
Account Officer to late Mr. Eich, coupled with my present position and
status in the bank, I have some vital informations that can help for the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the Next of Kin to
the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I
shall give you. I am having the secret Code for the account,which only the
account owner of his Next of Kin can know.

I shall supply all necessary information we need for the claim and there is
practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.If you
accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the
funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. I shall explain
to you in details how we shall handle the transaction once I receive your
response.

Thanking you in advance and May God blesses you. Please, treat with utmost
confidentiality.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,
DR. IDRIS RIMI.
Greetings to your family,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a
day that people meet and become great friends/ business partners. I am DR.
IDRIS RIMI, currently Head of Corporate Affairs Department with a reputable
bank here in Burkina Faso.

I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am about to reveal to you.I have an urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you. On June 5th,2000, a German
engineer who Head the BMW Company here in Burkina Faso Mr.Christian Eich
made a (Fixed deposit) for 60 calendar months, valued at
17,500,000(Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Pounds only) in my
bank(BANK OF AFRICA)with its website, www.bkofafrica.net and I happen to be
his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently.

The maturity date for this deposit contract was last 3rd of April 2005.
Before this date, I have tried my possible best to locate a Next of Kin to
late Mr. Eich, but all efforts prooved abortive, because all his family,
including his Son In-Law and children died in the plane crash of Concorde
Air France Flight AF4590 which took place on 31st July 2000, some months
after he did the deposit in my bank.

You can read more stories about the plane crash by visiting this
website,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

With the recent change of Central Bank Government in my country and with
their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating terrorism aid in
the Burkina Faso.By end of January this year, the Federal Government and the
Banking Government has pass a new Financial Control Law which will give the
Government authority to interrogate all Foriegn account owners of above 5
million Pounds to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for
terrorism support.

If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, by December the
Government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot
provide the account owner to explain the source of the money since he is
late.I decided to utilize this life time opportunity, instead of Government
confiscating them, but I cannot directly claim the money without the help of
a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the
Account Officer to late Mr. Eich, coupled with my present position and
status in the bank, I have some vital informations that can help for the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the Next of Kin to
the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I
shall give you. I am having the secret Code for the account,which only the
account owner of his Next of Kin can know.

I shall supply all necessary information we need for the claim and there is
practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.If you
accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the
funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. I shall explain
to you in details how we shall handle the transaction once I receive your
response.

Thanking you in advance and May God blesses you. Please, treat with utmost
confidentiality.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,
DR. IDRIS RIMI.
Greetings to your family,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a
day that people meet and become great friends/ business partners. I am DR.
IDRIS RIMI, currently Head of Corporate Affairs Department with a reputable
bank here in Burkina Faso.

I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am about to reveal to you.I have an urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you. On June 5th,2000, a German
engineer who Head the BMW Company here in Burkina Faso Mr.Christian Eich
made a (Fixed deposit) for 60 calendar months, valued at
17,500,000(Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Pounds only) in my
bank(BANK OF AFRICA)with its website, www.bkofafrica.net and I happen to be
his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently.

The maturity date for this deposit contract was last 3rd of April 2005.
Before this date, I have tried my possible best to locate a Next of Kin to
late Mr. Eich, but all efforts prooved abortive, because all his family,
including his Son In-Law and children died in the plane crash of Concorde
Air France Flight AF4590 which took place on 31st July 2000, some months
after he did the deposit in my bank.

You can read more stories about the plane crash by visiting this
website,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

With the recent change of Central Bank Government in my country and with
their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating terrorism aid in
the Burkina Faso.By end of January this year, the Federal Government and the
Banking Government has pass a new Financial Control Law which will give the
Government authority to interrogate all Foriegn account owners of above 5
million Pounds to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for
terrorism support.

If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, by December the
Government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot
provide the account owner to explain the source of the money since he is
late.I decided to utilize this life time opportunity, instead of Government
confiscating them, but I cannot directly claim the money without the help of
a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the
Account Officer to late Mr. Eich, coupled with my present position and
status in the bank, I have some vital informations that can help for the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the Next of Kin to
the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I
shall give you. I am having the secret Code for the account,which only the
account owner of his Next of Kin can know.

I shall supply all necessary information we need for the claim and there is
practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.If you
accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the
funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. I shall explain
to you in details how we shall handle the transaction once I receive your
response.

Thanking you in advance and May God blesses you. Please, treat with utmost
confidentiality.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,
DR. IDRIS RIMI.
Greetings to your family,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a
day that people meet and become great friends/ business partners. I am DR.
IDRIS RIMI, currently Head of Corporate Affairs Department with a reputable
bank here in Burkina Faso.

I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am about to reveal to you.I have an urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you. On June 5th,2000, a German
engineer who Head the BMW Company here in Burkina Faso Mr.Christian Eich
made a (Fixed deposit) for 60 calendar months, valued at
17,500,000(Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Pounds only) in my
bank(BANK OF AFRICA)with its website, www.bkofafrica.net and I happen to be
his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently.

The maturity date for this deposit contract was last 3rd of April 2005.
Before this date, I have tried my possible best to locate a Next of Kin to
late Mr. Eich, but all efforts prooved abortive, because all his family,
including his Son In-Law and children died in the plane crash of Concorde
Air France Flight AF4590 which took place on 31st July 2000, some months
after he did the deposit in my bank.

You can read more stories about the plane crash by visiting this
website,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

With the recent change of Central Bank Government in my country and with
their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating terrorism aid in
the Burkina Faso.By end of January this year, the Federal Government and the
Banking Government has pass a new Financial Control Law which will give the
Government authority to interrogate all Foriegn account owners of above 5
million Pounds to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for
terrorism support.

If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, by December the
Government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot
provide the account owner to explain the source of the money since he is
late.I decided to utilize this life time opportunity, instead of Government
confiscating them, but I cannot directly claim the money without the help of
a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the
Account Officer to late Mr. Eich, coupled with my present position and
status in the bank, I have some vital informations that can help for the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the Next of Kin to
the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I
shall give you. I am having the secret Code for the account,which only the
account owner of his Next of Kin can know.

I shall supply all necessary information we need for the claim and there is
practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.If you
accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the
funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. I shall explain
to you in details how we shall handle the transaction once I receive your
response.

Thanking you in advance and May God blesses you. Please, treat with utmost
confidentiality.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,
DR. IDRIS RIMI.
Greetings to your family,

This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a
day that people meet and become great friends/ business partners. I am DR.
IDRIS RIMI, currently Head of Corporate Affairs Department with a reputable
bank here in Burkina Faso.

I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with
the information I am about to reveal to you.I have an urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you. On June 5th,2000, a German
engineer who Head the BMW Company here in Burkina Faso Mr.Christian Eich
made a (Fixed deposit) for 60 calendar months, valued at
17,500,000(Seventeen Million Five hundred Thousand Pounds only) in my
bank(BANK OF AFRICA)with its website, www.bkofafrica.net and I happen to be
his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently.

The maturity date for this deposit contract was last 3rd of April 2005.
Before this date, I have tried my possible best to locate a Next of Kin to
late Mr. Eich, but all efforts prooved abortive, because all his family,
including his Son In-Law and children died in the plane crash of Concorde
Air France Flight AF4590 which took place on 31st July 2000, some months
after he did the deposit in my bank.

You can read more stories about the plane crash by visiting this
website,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

With the recent change of Central Bank Government in my country and with
their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating terrorism aid in
the Burkina Faso.By end of January this year, the Federal Government and the
Banking Government has pass a new Financial Control Law which will give the
Government authority to interrogate all Foriegn account owners of above 5
million Pounds to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for
terrorism support.

If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, by December the
Government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot
provide the account owner to explain the source of the money since he is
late.I decided to utilize this life time opportunity, instead of Government
confiscating them, but I cannot directly claim the money without the help of
a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the
Account Officer to late Mr. Eich, coupled with my present position and
status in the bank, I have some vital informations that can help for the
release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the Next of Kin to
the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I
shall give you. I am having the secret Code for the account,which only the
account owner of his Next of Kin can know.

I shall supply all necessary information we need for the claim and there is
practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law.If you
accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the
funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. I shall explain
to you in details how we shall handle the transaction once I receive your
response.

Thanking you in advance and May God blesses you. Please, treat with utmost
confidentiality.

I wait your urgent response.

Regards,
DR. IDRIS RIMI.

As Dennis Prager points out, everyon has reason to be unhappy, but they don't have to be unhappy.

Traffic, taxes, Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House... there's plenty to be unhappy about, and I point out a lot of it in what I normally write here.

But at this moment, as I bask in the wonderful Orange County, California weather... just home from church, I'm thinking about the many things I have to be thankful for.

1. I'm living with the assurance that God is good and is looking after me.  I'm imperfect in many ways, but Jesus Christ died to be my Saviour and rose from the dead, living to be my Lord.  That's a tremendously liberating truth.

2. I'm married to a godly woman who loves me.  She's the most beautiful woman on Earth... bright, kind, and sweet.

3. We're living in a country where we can go to church without the fear of being killed for expressing our faith, a country where we can vote, a country that cares about fighting corruption.  For the most part, we have free enterprise at our fingertips.  We have infrastructure that allows us to drink clean water, to get rid of waste in a sanitary manner, that allows us to drive wherever we want to go.  We have, for the most part, our health, and the best health care system in the world to keep us healthy.   We have high-quality food to eat... more than we can or should eat.

We have all of this because of God and because of the natural resources our land was blessed with, and because of men and women who fought and sacrificed for liberty, freedom, justice, and free enterprise and have worked hard in various industries.

Thank God.

What a wonderful world, and what a wonderful country.  We should do everything we reasonably can to conserve and protect the great principles and resources that have sustained us, and we should thank God often.

Things I learned by watching/reading the dinosaur media today:

1. Hooray!  All of our problems are solved!!!

2. The same Democrats who called for the ouster of Saddam before Bush actually ordered it, but then turned around and bashed him every step of the way once he took action, and who have never publicly offered a viable alternative plan, are going to solve the situation in Iraq!

3. This Congress is going to be the most ethical Congress ever!  You can count on it, just like Clinton's Presidency was the most ethical ever, because he said it would be, and we know he never would have lied!

4. We've apparently solved all of our voting machine problems, voter intimidation, and voter suppression & fraud issues!

5. Raising the minimum wage is going to make everything okay, and we all know it won't raise prices on the things that minimum wage-earners buy!

6. Taxes are only going to be raised on (and will negatively impact) other people, not me.

7. All of our education challenges will be met.

8. Social Security will magically and painlessly take care of us.

9. We'll soon have all of our health care needs taken care of, because, after all, health care is a right... we have a right for that highly educated, experienced, and trained surgeon to treat us in a state-of-the-art hospital that was financed, built, and staffed by other people who MUST provide for ME as an obligation, whether or not I can compensate them, whether or not they want to.  Yes, it is a right, just like my right to free speech - even though that right obligates nobody else.

10. The rest of the world can now love us.

11. Global warming and all environmental problems will solved!

12. The same voters who overwhelmingly passed conservative measures like anti-counterfeiting laws for marriage want Republicans to be less conservative!

We might as well annex Mexico, because you can kiss meaningful border control goodbye.  Of course, if we did that, we'd have to stop Mexico's stringent control of its southern border, just to be consistent.

Okay, all joking and sarcasm aside, you and I both know that the real reason the GOP lost Congress and the Governor races is that the GOP 1) hasn't been conservative enough, and 2) hasn't articulated messages well to the public.  We've allowed the Democrats to lie, viciously attack us, flip-flop, be vague, misrepresent themselves, and play hardball tactics without responding effectively.  In the future, the GOP needs to motivate the base, and show the moderates why the GOP is better than the Democrats on what matters most.

Just a reminder...

You must be a living, human, U.S. citizen who is a properly registered voter to cast a legitimate vote in our elections.  And, you can only vote once.  Thank you.  If you are a convicted felon, consult with your lawyer.

You are likely breaking the law by voting if you:
1. Are dead.
2. Are a cat.
3. Were just convicted of first-degree murder.
4. Never bothered to register to vote.
5. Just swam across the Rio Grande to come to the U.S. for the first time.

It asked for my zip code while I was trying to fuel up to get to the early voting site.

California currently has Proposition 85 in the ballot.  This is a "parental notification" law regarding abortion for underage girls.  It is NOT a parental consent law.  The "no" campaign letter-writers say "You can't force good communication!" and "We trust our daughters to  come to us!"

Okay, then.  To be consistent, these same people should also ask for the removal of laws, regulations, and rules that require parental notification in the following areas where consent is currently required:

Performing any surgery on their child, not just abortion.
Giving any medicine to their child, not just abortion pills.
Sending their child on a field trip.
Having their child participate in sports.
Showing their child an "R" or "NC-17" rated or unrated film.
Giving their child a tattoo.
Giving their child a piercing.

You can't be consistent and say that it should be okay for anyone else to avoid notifying you in advance before they take your child across state lines for a partial-birth abortion at taxpayer expense without informing her of the risks and possible complications and then to turn around and demand that you be consulted in those other areas.

The "no" campaign, funded by Planned Parenthood, is also flat-out lying about Proposition 85, saying that if will force girls to tell their abusive parents about her plans for an abortion.  It is a lie, plain and simple.  The Proposition has an "escape clause" so liberal in it that probably any girl who has the slightest fear of her parents will be able to skirt the notification requirement.

And as I've said before, these people who say "What if they pregnancy was caused by the girl's father?" have no solution.  Their solution is to send that girl right back into the home of that monster.  Prop 85 would get that girl some real help, AND she can still get an abortion.