Quote of the day

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

-The devout Christian, Abraham Lincoln-

I almost shed a tear.

Greedy politicians have got their panties in a twist because there are so many churches in town that they aren't generating enough tax revenue to please the city council. Boo hoo hoo city council. I was under the assumption that an area will reach the common median without the interference of government. And it will. But these politicians just love to spend other peoples money, so much so that they are going to start restricting the builiding of churches in their town. Real lovers of freedom aren't they?

With some 300 undeveloped, potentially revenue-producing acres left in Stafford, officials are scrambling to find a legal way to keep more tax-exempt churches from building here."With federal laws, you can't just say, 'We're not going to have any more churches,' " Scarcella said. "We respect the Constitution, but 51 of anything is too much."Stafford, population 19,227, is the largest city in Texas without a property tax, and it depends on sales taxes and business fees for revenue. Nonprofits have been attracted by its rapid growth and minimal deed restrictions. "It's thrown everything out of balance, plus providing zero revenue. Somebody's got to pay for police, fire and schools," City Councilman Cecil Willis said.In 2003, around the time the 45th church settled in, city leaders began looking for a way to slow the pace of construction. Public meetings were held; "we had people of different religions attending, people in their religious garb, Buddhists in their orange gowns and whatever else, talking about this very openly," Scarcella said.An ordinance eventually passed that required those who wanted to build a church — and other public gathering places, such as bowling alleys and community halls — to undergo a rigorous review process and obtain City Council approval.Before the ordinance, "you could pretty much come in here and say, 'I want to open up a church,' and I'd say, 'OK,' " said Gene Bane, the city's director of building permits.In his office is a large map of Stafford that is dotted with round yellow stickers, each dot denoting a church or religious facility. In some parts of town, the dots are so close together they nearly meld into a big yellow glob.

The tone of this article sums up the writer's feelings; cold hatred of religious freedom and a disdain for the inability of the state to take the peoples money is what it is all about. Are there any journalists out there who don't worship the state?

Quote of the day

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.
-- President of the United States John Adams, First Annual Address, November 22, 1797

Breaking News:

Frozen watermelon isn't as nutritious as fresh, ripe watermelon. This message brought to you by the taxpayers of America through the hard work and dedication of The Department of Agriculture.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - That ice-cold watermelon may be refreshing, but it can be less nutritious than watermelon served at room temperature, U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists reported on Wednesday.

And just who says we don't get our monies worth out of Washington?

Hell, I'd be happy if they did more of this money wasting garbage than trying to enslave us with illegal multi-national treaties/agreements and waging eternal war.

War in Israel

ISN'T OUR BUSINESS!

PNAC may have a problem with this characterization.

From the PaleoBlog

7/26/2006

Mubarak Has More in Common with America's Founders than Bush
In his 1796 farewell address, President George Washington called for America to "steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world." 209 years later, in his second inaugural address, President George W. Bush stated that "it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world." Quite a contrast, wouldn't you say?Now consider this from a recent AFP article:
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has rejected calls for tougher action in response to Israel's offensive in Lebanon, in comments carried by the state-owned press on Wednesday."Those who urge Egypt to go to war to defend Lebanon or Hezbollah are not aware that the time of exterior adventures is over," he told reporters on the flight back from talks with Saudi King Abdullah.Mubarak stressed that throwing the country into a war would be irresponsible when 73 million Egyptians "need development, services, work and housing.""Those who are asking for war will make us lose all of that in a blink," said Mubarak, quoted by the goverment Al-Gomhurriya daily.He stressed that he was not ready "to spend the people's budget on a war... Which isn't their war"."The Egyptian army is for defending Egypt only and this is not going to change," Mubarak added.You know America is in trouble when the leader of a predominantly Muslim nation has more in common with our Founding Fathers than our own president.

Hit the nail on the head with this one Mr. Shelton. And kudos to Mubarak. If only every leader in the world was a non-interventionist.

A few sentences isn't going to allay my suspicions.

WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE'No EU in U.S.'Tony Snow responds to warnings about North American superstate
Posted: July 12, 20062:00 p.m. Eastern
By Les Kinsolving© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Presidential press secretary Tony Snow yesterday emphatically stated that there would be no "EU in the U.S." when asked about administration efforts to more closely integrate state relations between Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
As WorldNetDaily reported, some critics of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America have said the program, though supposedly beneficial to the U.S., will lead to a North American superstate similar to the European Union, open borders, loss of sovereignty and even a common currency.
WND asked Snow about the criticism, stating, "As WorldNetDaily's lead story pointed out yesterday, critics are expressing concerns about the president's cooperative efforts with Mexico and Canada regarding the Security and Prosperity Partnership. And my question: Will the president categorically deny any interest in building a European Union-style superstate in North America?"
Responded Snow: "Of course, no. We're not interested. There is not going to be an EU in the U.S."

Now the apologists are going to come out in full force and viscously attack anyone who doubts the intentions of the Bush administration and its goals for an American union as a crack pot conspiracy nut. I can already see it happening. But I for one will continue to question the motives of this transparently globalist administration. A good step toward ending my fears would be to seal the border and end this treasonous talk of a guest worker program to flood the country with foreigners who don't have any allegiance to the constitution, like Bush, and don't want to be American citizens. Talk by your press secretary is one thing. You acutally mentioning it and fielding questions, more than one, would possiby move me toward believeing you. But after all the lies and obfuscations that you have presented on a gilded platter made out of Chinese bought silver and served by an Illegal Alien waiter, I don't much believe anything you say anymore. Saying you're a conservative is also high on my list. Maybe actaully deploying the piddly 6000 national guardman would help too.

Look at all of Jerome Corsi's and Worldnetdaily articles on the SPP. Tony Snow's word just isn't cutting it.

I never knew why I disliked Starbuck's coffee so much.

Well, this is news to me.

A Thank you To All Starbucks Customers
Written by Howard Schultz – July 11, 2006

Dear Starbucks Customer,

First and foremost I want to thank you for making Starbucks the $6.4 billion global company it is today, with more than 90,000 employees, 9,700 stores, and 33 million weekly customers. Every latte and macchiato you drink at Starbucks is a contribution to the close alliance between the United States and Israel, in fact it is - as I was assured when being honoured with the "Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award" - key to Israel's long-term PR success. Your daily chocolate chips frappucino helps paying for student projects in North America and Israel, presenting them with the badly needed Israeli perspective of the Intifada. Starbucks, through the Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah, an international network of Jewish education centres, sponsors Israeli military arms fairs in an effort to strengthen the special connection between the American, European and Israeli defense industries and to showcase the newest Israeli innovations in defense.As my contribution to the fight against the global rise of anti-Semitism, the reason behind the current conflict in the Middle-East, I help Aish HaTorah sponsoring the website "honestreporting.com" and produce material informing of Israel's side of the story. Without you, my valued customer, I wouldn't be able to raise hundreds of millions of dollars each year to support Israeli citizens from terrorist attacks and keep reminding every Jew in America, to defend Israel at any cost. $5 billion per year from the US government are no way near enough to pay for all the weaponry, bulldozers and security fences needed to protect innocent Israeli citizens from anti-Semitic Muslim terrorism. Corporate sponsorships are essential. Having the bigger picture in mind, Starbucks have donated a store to the US army to help in the "War on Terror". I cannot emphasise enough, how vital the "War on Terror" is for the continued viability and prospering of the Jewish State. So next time you feel like chilling out at a Starbucks store, please remember that with every cup you drink at Starbucks you are helping with a noble cause. (Emphasis mine)

Howard Schultz Chairman & Chief Global Strategist Starbucks Coffee Stores

We must thank Starbucks for this letter of appreciation. If most people don't know what the war on terror is all about, that little bit of red up above may make it more clear. Our interests in fighting terror is more about protecting Isreal than protecting ourselves.

Let's say for instance that I wanted to protect my country from terrorists infiltration. What would I do? What would be a good idea? The best idea?

Maybe closing down the borders! That is a good start.

The war on terror is a fraud or, at the very least, it isn't to protect American citizens from terror.

Quote of the day

“Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.”
-Elbert Hubbard-

I don't trust the seers on the Potomac

One of the great contributions of Nobel Laureate economist Friedrich Hayek was to admonish us to recognize the insurmountable limits to human knowledge. Why? Not even the brightest minds, and surely not the U.S. Congress, can ever have the knowledge to shape an economic system entirely to our liking. To think we can represents the height of arrogance and a pretense of knowledge. The billions upon billions of interrelationships between an economic system's human and non-human elements defy human capacity to know.
Let's examine just a few pretenses of knowledge. Under Social Security law, Congress forces workers to set aside a portion of their earnings for retirement. Take a 25-year-old – let's call her "Mary" – who earns $40,000 a year. Her Social Security tax is about $2,500. Here's my question to you: Was having $2,500 forcibly taken out of Mary's pay for retirement her best possible use of that money? Mary might have saved and invested several years to open a small business. She might have put it toward private schooling or music lessons for her child, or any number of things that might have made her, and possibly our nation, wealthier in the future...........................

Another example of the seen/unseen problem is the Bush administration's 2002 steel tariffs. The tariffs' seen beneficiaries were steel industry executives, stockholders and the approximately 1,700 steelworker jobs saved. According to the Consuming Industries Trade Action Association, higher steel prices, resulting from the tariffs, caused thousands of job losses in the steel-using industries. Since companies that used steel had to pay higher prices, they became less competitive domestically and internationally.


Each of us is faced with the knowledge and the seen and unseen problems. I believe that most Americans would see themselves in a much better position of determining what's in our own best interests than politicians, who are mostly concerned with re-election. At least I hope that's the case.

But don't take this economists word for it, the government can predict what is going to happen. Doesn't history prove that theory? Of course it does! Don't be silly.

Just wait a second; it's coming soon.

Two groups of tourists were robbed at gunpoint on the National Mall, just hours after the police chief declared a crime emergency in the city in response to a string of violence that included the killing of a British activist.
The activist, Alan Senitt, was attacked in the Georgetown area on Sunday, his throat was slit and police say the attackers attempted to rape his companion. It was the 13th homicide in the city this month. Robberies are up 14 percent, and armed assaults have jumped 18 percent in the past 30 days.
On Wednesday, U.S. Park Police were looking for connections between the latest Mall robberies and three similar incidents in the area in late May. There have been no arrests in any of those cases.
On Tuesday night, two women from Texas were robbed at gunpoint by two men dressed in all black, said U.S. Park Police Sgt. Scott Fear. About 15 minutes later, a family of four from Missouri was robbed by suspects with the same description, he said.
Though no one was injured, Fear said there were similarities to three violent attacks on the National Mall in May. In one case, a 17-year- old woman was sexually assaulted.
"We try to prevent this from happening," Fear said. "We're going to reallocate our resources. We're going to see what improvements we can make."
District of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey declared a crime emergency in the city after Senitt, a volunteer for the potential presidential campaign of former Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner, was killed.
The crime emergency declaration allows commanders more flexibility to adjust officers' schedules and reassign them to high-crime areas.
The tourist-friendly National Mall, which is under the jurisdiction of Park Police rather than D.C. police, is usually considered safe. But the recent crimes against tourists have raised calls for a larger police presence.
Police are asking Mall visitors to "be our eyes and ears," Fear said. "We're going to ask them to be vigilant."

Now that a state of emergency has been issued, we will soon be hearing about imported guns from Virginia which is ruining the district. Then, of course, will be more calls for gun confiscations from law abiding citizens. I'm sure glad I don't live in D.C.

Another update on the SPP

Three cheers for WorldNetDaily.com. They are, really, the only news source acutally investigating and writing stories on the SPP. This story gives us some background on the campaign contributions that are allowing this Trans-Texas corridor to progress. Ahhh, corruption. You may not want corruption but it is always going to be there. That is why it is essential to cut off the power that makes corruption possible.

By Jerome R. Corsi© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
The contractors building the Trans-Texas Corridor – a massive statewide transportation network critics claim is an important part of the controversial proposed integration of the U.S. and Mexico – have made large contributions to the campaigns of Texas politicians, including Republican Gov. Rick Perry.
As WND has reported, opposition is mounting to the little-publicized efforts by the Bush administration, aided by corporate and political elites of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, including the Council on Foreign Relations, to push North America into a European Union-style merger. Critics of the Trans-Texas Corridor see the massive project – ironically funded by Spain – as part of this movement to integrate the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

And three cheers for Jerome Corsi too!

It's what people do.

Norwegians defy tax-free rulesWeary of high prices and high taxes, Norwegians are smuggling goods into the country like never before. At least a third are believed to bring home more goods than their tax-free quotas allow, and it's not just tobacco and spirits that's being sneaked over the border. It's mostly the tax-free quotas on alcoholic beverages that the average Norwegian disregards most often, reports newspaper Aftenposten. Wine, for example, can cost as much as 40 percent less even in the state-controlled liquor stores in Sweden, where taxes still are higher than most other places in the world.
That makes it more than a little tempting for Norwegians in Sweden to pick up an extra 3-liter carton of wine before heading home. The recent sharp reduction of limits on what the Swedes themselves can bring home, along with their counterparts all over Europe, also have left many Norwegians thinking that the strict limits and high taxes they still must live with are simply unfair.
So they've literally been taking matters into their own hands. Customs inspectors along the Swedish border and at Oslo's main airport at Gardermoen say smuggling is up as much as 50 percent, given the sheer increase in the number of citations they've issued lately.
"We have a clear increase in the number of small, but illegal cases that end up with a fine," Per Johansen, regional director of the toll district for eastern Norway, told Aftenposten. "We're talking about normal folks who come home with 10 liters of wine or some extra bottles of liquor."
Johansen said the culprits come from all socio-economic levels of Norwegian society. Lars Vidar Ramdahl of the customs control post at Svinesund, on Norway's southern border to Sweden, said few Norwegians quarrel with the fines.
"They know what they're doing," he said, and many tend to laugh it off when they get caught.

Can this article really be considered news? People will do everything they can to avoid paying taxes. And contrary to what anyone says, No one likes paying (ANY) taxes. Hell, America was built on rum runners and bootleggers plying their trade where the tax man does not tread.

As far as the people of this country have been brainwashed to accept socialism and onerous taxation, most understand what is happening; governments take as much as you will allow them to take; take care of your purse.

Quote of the day

“The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch-- Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference-- that threatens to impoverish us by further destroying the value of our dollars.”

-Rep. Ron Paul-

Ron Paul rips the Fed

Federal Reserve Policy Destroys the Value of Your Savings
by Ron Paulby Ron Paul



For years officials at the Federal Reserve Bank, including Chairman Bernanke himself, have assured us that inflation is under control and not a problem – even as the price of housing, energy, medical care, school tuition, gold, and other commodities skyrockets.
The Treasury department parrots the Fed line that consumer prices, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), are under control. But even many mainstream economists now admit that CPI grossly understates true inflation. The most glaring problem is that CPI excludes housing prices, instead tracking rents. Everyone knows the cost of purchasing a home has increased dramatically in the last ten years; in many regions housing prices have more than doubled in just five years. So price inflation certainly is alive and well when to comes to the largest purchase most Americans make.
When the Federal Reserve increases the supply of dollars in circulation, both paper and electronic, prices must rise eventually. What other result it possible? The supply of dollars has risen much faster than the supply of goods and services being chased by those dollars. Fed policy makers have more than doubled the money supply in less than ten years. While Treasury printing presses can print unlimited dollars, there are natural limits to economic growth. This flood of newly minted US currency can only increase consumer prices in the long term.
Mr. Bernanke has stated quite candidly that he will use government printing presses to stimulate the economy as necessary. He is famous for joking that he would endorse dropping money from helicopters if needed to prevent an economic slowdown. This is nothing short of an express policy to destroy our money by inflation. Every new dollar erodes the value of existing dollars based on simple supply and demand. Does anyone really believe the Treasury can make us rich simply by printing more money?
The coming dollar crisis is not likely to be “fixed” by politicians who are unwilling to make hard choices, admit mistakes, and spend less money. Demographic trends will place even greater demands on Congress to maintain benefits for millions of older Americans who are dependent on the federal government.
Faced with uncomfortable financial realities, Congress will seek to avoid the day of reckoning by the most expedient means available – and the Federal Reserve undoubtedly will accommodate Washington by printing more dollars to pay the bills. The Fed is the enabler for the spending addicts in Congress, who would rather spend new fiat money than face the political consequences of raising taxes or borrowing more abroad.
The irony is that many of the Fed’s biggest cheerleaders are the same supposed capitalists who denounced centralized economic planning when practiced by the former Soviet Union. Large banks and Wall Street firms love the Fed’s easy money policy, because they profit at the front end from the resulting loan boom and artificially high equity prices. It’s the little guy who loses when the inflated dollars finally trickle down to him and erode his buying power. Someday Americans will understand that Federal Reserve bankers have no magic ability – and certainly no legal or moral right – to decide how much money should exist and what the cost of borrowing money should be.
July 11, 2006

Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

Ron Paul is the only congressman in these united states who dares mention the Federal Reserve and the tyranny it visits upon the American people. Small little things like the nature of money and the creation of inflation and endless debt are too low brow to be discussed by Republicans and Democrats. One would think that this country, one who is an economic juggernaut, would have a citizenry more interested in the nature of the greenbacks it sends throughout the world. One would think.

The Federal Reserve note printed from the Federal Reserve is like the jpg.file. above. All it takes is a click to make, and a Federal Reserve note is soon to be worth just about as much as that jpg.

Quote of the day

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.
-Tom Tancredo-

Opposition to the SPP! Things are looking up.

But they're not really looking up. We thought that things were looking up when the feds granted us a show to make us think they were really going to end illegal immigration. The only thing looking up from that is the numbers of wetbacks streaming across the border. And we really thought things were looking up in the Iraq war in 2004. We're still in Iraq, but we did manage to build the largest most super awesome embassy on the face of the earth. You did hear about that before today didn't you? I hope so. Now things are looking up because of all this opposition to the SPP. We are really eating crumbs when a few news sources even mention the damn thing and we call it opposition. But I guess something is better than nothing.

Posted: July 9, 200611:59 p.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – Are secret meetings being held between the corporate and political elites of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to push North America into a European Union-style merger?
Is President Bush's reluctance to control the border and enforce laws requiring deportation of foreigners who enter the country illegally part of a master plan to all but eliminate borders between the U.S., Canada and Mexico?
Does the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America include a common currency that would scrap the dollar in favor of what some are calling the "amero"?
It may be the biggest story of the 21st century, but few press outlets are telling it. In fact, until very recently, few in the U.S. were aware of the plans and even fewer denouncing what appears to be the implementation of an effort some have characterized as "NAFTA on steroids."
But opposition is mounting.

Perhaps the most blistering criticism has come from Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of Bush's immigration policies.
"A regional prosperity and security program?" he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. "This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are -- we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is -- I mean, this is beyond belief."
What has Dobbs and a few other vocal critics bugged began in earnest March 31, 2005, when the elected leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada agreed to advance the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
No one seems quite certain what that agenda is because of the vagueness of the official declarations. But among the things the leaders of the three countries agreed to work toward were borders that would allow for easier and faster moving of goods and people between the countries.
Coming as the announcement did in the midst of a raging national debate in the U.S. over borders seen as far to open already, more than a few jaws dropped.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. and the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.
Responding to a WorldNetDaily report, Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.
Tancredo wants to know the membership of the Security and Prosperity Partnership groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada.
Jim Gilchrist, co-founder of the Minutemen, welcomed Tancredo's efforts.
"It's time for the Bush administration to come clean," Gilchrist said. "If President Bush's agenda is to establish a new North American union government to supersede the sovereignty of the United States, then the president has an obligation to tell this to the American people directly. The American public has a right to know."
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."

I love that line in red; their distraction is your future.

I am elated that the plans for our future have come along so well for the elites that they can't be bottled up anymore. If you're going to merge our countries together you might just have to tell the citizens. Not that they would do anything about it; Hillary Clinton might get elected, and that would be the worst thing that could ever happen. Just listen to Sean Hannity. He makes sure to tell his listeners every day. This SPP thing is of little or no concern.

I'm sure we'll be hearing from the Latino lobby soon.

Weight loss plan: I'll mow your lawn for free

Darrell Nelson of Coon Rapids is a man with a lawnmower and a dream. He wants to lose 30 to 50 pounds, but he has had trouble in the past adhering to an exercise program. However, if he makes a commitment to another person, he tends to stick to it, he said.
A possible solution to Nelson's weight problem came to him while mowing his lawn this summer.
"I get done and I'm sweating like a pig, and I go: God, I should be able to do a couple lawns a week and I could probably lose a few more pounds," said Nelson, a former power lifter who's about 5 feet 9 and 258 pounds.
His solution was to offer lawn-mowing services for free on the website Craig's List. If he were to eat better and mow a lawn per day for almost every day of the week, he figured, he would be able to keep an exercise program going.
"This is no joke or gimmick," he wrote. "I need to lose weight. I have struggled on sticking to exercise programs, including just walking, for quite a while now. ... I need to find four other lawns to mow in the Coon Rapids area."
Nelson has fielded calls from reporters, his family, strangers, a hardware store that potentially wants to use him in an ad -- even some women asking him out.
"It's unbelievable. My life has been turned upside down, man, unbelievable," he said. "I was planning on doing five lawns: Mine plus four others. Now, I'm doing six lawns: Mine plus five others. ... The response I've had was amazing. ... I had a phone call from a guy in Iowa just this morning. ... And I've been asked out by three women. It's nuts. ... I was just trying to do some yards and lose some weight, and it just -- voila -- away it went."

This man is obvioulsy a racist hegemonist. How could he do the work that Americans won't do, and for free at that? He is literally taking the job of an illegal aliens with this stunt. He must also hate unions and government too. How could he undercut the lawn mower unions, and where is he going to register and pay taxes for his exertions? This man is anti-American. No ifs ands or buts about it.

Quote of the day

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism.
-Karl Marx-

The death of US sovereignty.

With a cool graphic like this how could one be opposed to the SPP?

Because this is what is not being sold to us. We have had no discussions, the people haven't been consulted, and only one person in government has deigned ask any questions about this SPP. Since the American people won't vote for foreign governments and NGO's to have control over our country, the executive branch has been careful to institute this program underground. Just like that pesty 2/3 vote that is required for treaties (CAFTA), our government decided on agreements that are virtually treaties but without going through all the channels and laws we have on the books. They'll just rename it an understanding or some other such obfuscation. It fits the bill. Some fools would call me a conspiracy theorist because I don't take what the president feeds me at face value. But let the record speak for itself. Go to the site in the link then wonder why you haven't heard anything about this sovereignty destorying program. Those who hold the reins of power undersand that this isn't an issue that the American people can be trusted to vote on. We would come off as non-globalists and it would destroy our UN credibility. Then where would we be, probably more free, but that is not what is being planned for us. Got that amigo. Not yet? Just give it a few years and you'll hear about our courts being over ruled by a foreign consortium that has hamonized trade, security, and resources. All for our betterment. We just don't know what's good for us. Bush is going to help us understand.

My kind of guy!

It appears that the Northern invasion of the South is complete -- at least it is on a patch of land known as Delta Plantation in Jasper County.
There, a diehard rebel named Henry E. Ingram Jr. made his last stand against the onslaught of Yankees, only to be thwarted by a man from Long Island, N.Y., and now -- gasp -- a French Canadian.
Ingram promised to keep Yankees out of Delta Plantation in Jasper County when he bought 1,700 acres there in 1998. His resolve to keep them out still is strong, but the covenants he put on the land don't seem to have any teeth.
Those covenants did, however, scare Canadian-raised Bluffton resident Louise Legare a bit as she was close to signing a contract to buy a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the land from Bluffton Home Builders.
The list of rules she got from the builders was missing the first pages, so she went to the Jasper County Courthouse to get the missing ones. There, she found the covenants, or rules, that Ingram demanded of buyers:
1. They could not be Yankees.
2. They could not have the last name Sherman (an obvious reference to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman).
3. And the land could not be sold or leased to those whose last names could be rearranged to spell Sherman.
Clearly, Ingram doesn't like Northern folk.
Now, however, Legare and Bluffton Home Builders are working with Ingram's son, Ashley Ingram, to remove the covenants. The former Delta Plantation is on both sides of U.S. 17, just north of the Georgia state line.
"When (Legare) brought it to us, we all kind of had a good laugh," said Jim Hobbs, a partner in the home-building firm.
In fact, Legare is buying the land and home from Bill Cook, another partner in the company, who happens to be a native of Long Island, N.Y. No one at Bluffton Home Builders had seen the covenants before Legare found the missing pages, and no one has ever tried to enforce them, Hobbs said.
If Henry Ingram had his way, he still would keep Yankees off of the 1,700 acres he once owned. His holdings on the plantation have dwindled to 10 acres.
Ingram, now a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas, said his son and attorney, who are both local, should be looking out for his anti-northerner wishes now.
"Yankees destroy everything they have up North, then they come down here," Ingram said. "When they destroy everything (in the South), where are they going to move next? Another country?"
Legare, who grew up north of Montreal, figures her far-northern upbringing must be especially abhorrent to Ingram.
"I must be more of a Yankee," she said. "I'm the person he really doesn't want to live there."
Amazingly, Legare is a much better choice to own Southern land than a New Yorker, according to Ingram.
"French people are much better and more desirable than a Yankee," said Ingram, who once owned video-poker casinos in Jasper County. "They don't stick their noses in other people's business."
The same feature drew Legare and Ingram to the land -- nature. Ingram said he's seen Carolina panthers, bald eagles and fox squirrels on the land. It is that quiet beauty Legare is after.
"I was raised in a very nature-like environment," Legare said. "I think the nature is beautiful in South Carolina."
Ingram, who says he is leaving Texas for Costa Rica soon, cites the boorish manners of Yankees as one of his prime dislikes for them.
"They look down their little pointy noses at the people in the South because we are polite and nice to them," Ingram said. "They think people who are polite and nice are dumb."

We need more Southrons like this man.