Tonight is Erev Pasach, the beginning of Passover, and all over the world Jewish families, including the most secular, will gather at seders. I wish them joy.
In Israel, the security forces will be on special alert, for Palestinian terrorists have always been partial to massacring Jews on their most holy days. Meanwhile, at the United Nations in New York, a motion to condemn Israel for recent strikes against Palestinian terror camps in Gaza has been withdrawn from the Security Council. The Arab states sponsoring it found it wouldnt fly, even there.
I juxtapose these things, expressly to bring out how crazy the world is. Our media hardly reported that when the Israelis voluntarily withdrew their settlements from Gaza, as part of the one-sided peace process, the sites of two of them were turned into terror camps. Nor have we read or heard much, if anything, about the escalating rounds of Qassam rockets being fired daily into southern Israel from these new Hamas bases at former Neve Dekalim, and Slav. We hear now, when the Israelis strike back.
The Gaza perimeter fence, in place for many years, has offered fairly secure protection against the infiltration of suicide bombers to Israel, though the border guards themselves suffer the occasional detonation. But the fence is no use against rockets.
Since it is not acceptable to be the target of constant rocket attacks, the Israel Defence Forces must do something. The only thing they can do, is attack the people launching the rockets. This must now be done almost exclusively from the air. Civilian casualties -- including two Palestinian children in the last few days -- are made inevitable by the Palestinian habit of moving families into the likely target areas, to serve as human shields. When they are maimed or martyred in the crossfire, they become so much more heart-wrenching material to feed the international Islamist grievance machine.
As more extensive reports in Israel have made clear, Gaza has now become a bigger security problem for Israel than it ever was during the nearly four decades that Jewish settlements were established there. This is because the need to defend the settlements gave the IDF a forward position within Gaza, and better local intelligence. They could respond more immediately to developing threats. Now they have been withdrawn from Gaza, they must watch the enemys preparations only electronically.
It has become clear that Al Qaeda and other terror affiliates are now setting up shop in Gaza at the invitation of both Hamas and Fatah. This could not have happened, with the IDF still there.
The withdrawal from Gaza was a small thing, however, in comparison to the impending withdrawal of forward Israeli settlements from the West Bank. Some 80,000 Israelis, most of whom have lived there more than a generation, will be removed behind more defensible lines. The acting prime minister, Ehud Olmert, is hoping to get international, or at least American, recognition for the borders behind which they are withdrawn. Good luck to him. Israel has never been repaid, except with more violence, for any of its tactical retreats, and no other fate is foreseeable. The abandonment of forward positions in the West Bank will repeat the mistake in Gaza, but on a much larger scale, while the sight of ten-thousands of Israelis being evicted from their homes, by their own army, will tear at the fabric of Israeli society.
Israel faces, as we in the West also face, an enemy who will not be reconciled. It makes no sense to offer concessions to such an enemy. The whole idea of withdrawing behind more defensible borders is built upon illusion. Either you carry the battle to the enemy, or the enemy carries the battle to you. It is the same story, finally, in Iraq and Afghanistan. We fight them there, or they fight us here. Israel is looking directly into that quandary. We still look on from far away.
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Gaza may be a worse problem but now there are no Israeli civilans mixed into that target rich environment.
...M***s...?
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There is a school of thought,3dc,that states put all your rotten eggs in one basket then smash that basket.
LOL.
Andrew Carnage, I bleev?
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Warren can be so right sometimes, and such a hand-wringing puss at others. Israel is behind defensive borders, continuing the fence/wall, and in control. They can turn the barrage up or down at will. The paleos scurry out, shoot theit miniscule wad, and retreat. Who is eating ell, running a functioning economy, able to travel at will? Not the Paleos..they are stuck in a coming civil war, a death cult trying to see who's better at killing and theft. No economy other than international begging. Dependent on the Jooooos for power and more importantly WATER. I'll take the Joooos and go all in
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Iran's diverse population should be fertile ground for a covert operation. Iran is only 51 percent Persian. Azerbaijanis and Kurds comprise nearly 35 percent of the population. Seventy percent are under 30, and the jobless rate hovers near 20 percent.
Fertile ground for producing terrorists & other kinds of "insurgents" a la Iraq, but I really doubt they like the US at all. The mullocracy has already eliminated most of their potential domestic opposition. A great many Iranians support the mullocracy, a great many Iranians (even those who hate the mullahs) support Iranian nuclear weapons production, just as many/most Germans and Japanese supported their governments in WW II until their support became meaningless as Nazi and Imperial Japanese military power was destroyed.
Any country involved in the attack would be subject to retaliation by Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al Qaeda, the Iranians have claimed. If nothing else, this threat demonstrates how closely tied Iran is to terrorist groups.
How right this is, but you can already imagine the MSM saying Iran had nothing to do with 9/11 or with WMD, can't you?
---- In a related article, William Kristol asks the rhetorical question "Is the America of 2006 more willing to thwart the unacceptable than the France of 1936?" A few of us are willing, a big chunk of our electorate is still on a holiday from history, and the MSM is only interested in spreading mental agitation, fear and confusion. Things are a bit better today on this front than they were on 9/10/2001, though.
No mention is made a relationship between a military strike against Iranian nuclear weapons research and the world oil supply, which is already strained. Keep your shoes well-heeled and your bicycles in good running condition, everyone. The road ahead is twisted and full of potholes.
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Iran's leaders have threatened to unleash a firestorm of terrorism in the event military action is taken against them. Any country involved in the attack would be subject to retaliation by Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al Qaeda, the Iranians have claimed. If nothing else, this threat demonstrates how closely tied Iran is to terrorist groups.
Sort of says it all. Iran is a festering boil that needs to be lanced before blood poisoning and gangrene sets in.
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Zenster - as long as it's their blood poisoning and their gangrene (which I think have already set in), I don't give a shit.
Unfortunately, they're trying to pass their derangement disease on to us. :-(
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Still comes down to either Americans fight and win, or surrender to the Global Caliphate/
Jihadist/Islamist State, and then hope to God they don't decide to kill you 'for Honor/Allah" after you surrender. POST-SHAH IRAN FOR MANY YEARS OFFICIALLY PROCLAIMED TO NOT SUPPORT TERROR, ERGO IS WHY THEY THREATEN TO UNLEASH SAME AGAINST AMERICA - OOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPSSSSS.
This past Friday night I was privileged to visit Fran O'Brien's steakhouse in the Capitol Hilton, Washington, DC. Every Friday night, Hal Koster, the restaurant manager and Vietnam Vet, invites our wounded soldiers convalescing at nearby Walter Reed Army Center to a free steak dinner and drinks. It was supposedly a "slow" night for our heroes as many were on a ski trip in Colorado. But I walked into an absolutely packed room of wounded soldiers and their families enjoying a minor but well-deserved recognition for their service to our country.
I've also discovered since then that the Hilton Corporation will not be renewing the lease. Apparently, there are too many "liability issues" in accommodating American heroes in wheelchairs. In fact , the lease (and therefore the dinners) will expire in a few short weeks. If America had responded as we would in the past, this would be inconsequential really. Obviously we have not and it is a tragic commentary on today's PC-ness.
Please read the attached e-mail with more of the details.
Best,
Buzz
Buzz Patterson
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF (Retired)
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MAYDAY! MAYDAY!! MAYDAY!!!
Flight, we need your help!
This is long but you need to read it all.
I'm Jim McDaniel, webmaster for the 174th Assault Helicopter Company's web site. I refer you to one of our web pages that I put together back in 2004. It is about Hal Koster, one of our 174th crew chiefs from Vietnam. Hal crewed the UH-1C SHARK gunships that I flew 1967-68. Hal and I flew together. Please see the page about his restaurant and his support of our veterans at http://www.174ahc.org/koster-iraq.htm.
Now, having read the page, Hal has continued to host our veteran amputees every Friday night. I have been to several of the dinners, and it is absolutely WONDERFUL what Hal has been doing at significant effort and personal expense (every dollar he spends on our veterans could be money he puts in his pocket). You really have to be one of these dinners to fully appreciate what this means to these soldiers.
Well I received this message (below) from Jack Cunningham, and I couldn't believe it. I was last in Hal's on St. Patrick's Day, and Hal didn't mention his difficulties to me then. I just called Hal and he confirmed for me this report is TRUE. Hilton has terminated his lease and the restaurant has been ordered closed on April 31 (just over TWO WEEKS from now). Apparently Hal's support of our wounded veterans is playing a MAJOR part in Hilton's decision to shut him down. Part of it is that Hilton has refused to put in wheelchair access to the restaurant and their concern over liability if one of the amputees should be injured in the restaurant.
I can't believe it! Just how callous can this company be?
If Hilton does this, I will NEVER set foot in a Hilton Hotel again. And I am going to tell them that. If you agree, it is IMPERATIVE you let Hilton know immediately of your feelings. In two weeks (April 31, 2006) it'll be too late. Below are names, e-mail addresses, and website addresses for Hilton.
Hal has NOT asked for any support on this from me or any of us, but he absolutely needs our support.
Call or write to Hilton NOW. Let them know how you feel.
Thank you, and please feel free to forward this to any people or organizations you believe could help.
Jim McDaniel
174th AHC Webmaster
http://www.174ahc.org
jim.mcd@cox.net
174th AHC Dolphin pilot 1967
174th AHC Shark pilot 1968
116th AHC Hornet pilot 1971
"Nothing Impossible"
============ Jack Cunningham's note ===============
Fran O'Brien's Restaurant in Washington, DC should be given a special award for true American Patriotism, instead the restaurant is being closed by the Hilton Hotels. Please read the email and send the Hilton Family your comments...
Thanks
Jack Cunningham
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Chalk this up to one part distaste for wounded vets, one thousand parts white-hot DC real estate market and changing demographics. Franny's is one of those old-school restaurants that the Olive Garden/ Ruby Tuesdays/ Applebees juggernauts have mostly wiped off the map. Rising rents and a growing preference for arugula are working their black magic on the neighborhood restaurants everywhere in the DC metro area.
April 26 marks the 20th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Anti-nuclear activists are still trying to turn Chernobyl into a bigger disaster than it really was.
Although the Number Four nuclear reactor at Chernobyl exploded just before dawn on April 26, 1986, Soviet secrecy prevented the world from learning about the accident for days. Once details began to emerge, however, the anti-nuclear scare machine swung into action.
Three days after the accident Greenpeace scientists predicted the accident would cause 10,000 people to get cancer over a 20-year period within a 625-mile radius of the plant. Greenpeace also estimated that 2,000 to 4,000 people in Sweden would develop cancer over a 30-year period from the radioactive fallout.
At the same time, Helen Caldicott, president emeritus of the anti-nuclear Physicians for Social Responsibility, predicted the accident would cause almost 300,000 cancers in 5 to 50 years and cause almost 1 million people either to be rendered sterile or mentally retarded, or to develop radiation sickness, menstrual problems and other health problems.
University of California-Berkeley medical physicist and nuclear power critic Dr. John Gofman made the most dire forecast. He predicted at an American Chemical Society meeting that the Chernobyl accident would cause 1 million cancers worldwide, half of them fatal.
But the reality of the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident seems to be quite different than predicted by the anti-nuke crowd.
As of mid-2005, fewer than 50 deaths were attributed to radiation from the accident thats according to a report, entitled Chernobyls Legacy: Health Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts, produced by an international team of 100 scientists working under the auspices of the United Nations. Almost all of those 50 deaths were rescue workers who were highly exposed to radiation and died within months of the accident.
So far, there have been about 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer, mainly in children. But except for nine deaths, all of those with thyroid cancer have recovered, according to the report.
Despite the UN report, the anti-nuclear mob hasnt given up on Chernobyl scaremongering.
According to a March 25 report in The Guardian (UK), Greenpeace and others are set to issue a report around the 20th anniversary of the accident claiming that at least 500,000 people may have already died as a result of the accident.
Ukraine's government appears to be on board with the casualty inflation game, perhaps looking for more international aid for the economically-struggling former Soviet republic.
The Guardian article quoted the deputy head of the Ukraine National Commission for Radiation Protection as touting the 500,000-deaths figure. A spokesman for the Ukraine governments Scientific Center for Radiation Medicine told The Guardian, Were overwhelmed by thyroid cancers, leukemias and genetic mutations that are not recorded in the [UN] data and which were practically unknown 20 years ago.
Putting aside the anti-nuclear movements track record of making wild claims and predictions in order advance its political agenda, I put more credence in the UNs estimates because it squares with what we know about real-life exposures to high levels of radiation.
Among the more than 86,000 survivors of the atomic bomb blasts that ended World War II, for example, only about 500 or so extra cancers have occurred since 1950. Exposure to high-levels of radiation does increase cancer risk, but only slightly.
There is no doubt that Chernobyl was a disaster, but it was not one of mythical proportions.
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island the U.S. nuclear plant that accidentally released a small amount radiation in 1979 are examples of how the anti-nuclear lobby takes every available opportunity to scare the public about nuclear power.
But no one was harmed by the incident at Three Mile Island. The Chernobyl accident can be chalked up to deficiencies in its Soviet-era design and operation. Neither reflect poorly on the track record of safety demonstrated by nuclear power plants designed, built and operated in countries like the U.S., U.K., France and Japan.
Its quite ironic that while Greenpeace squawks about the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in order to avert the much-dreaded global warming, the group continues spreading fear about greenhouse gas-free nuclear power plants the only practical alternative to burning fossil fuels for producing electricity.
Apparently, Greenpeaces solution to our energy problems is simply to turn the lights off for good. Well, they ARE anti-capitalist
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But no one was harmed by the incident at Three Mile Island.
That's not quite true. Instead of correcting the errors in the US domestic nuclear power industry, we put it on the shelf and increased our reliance on imported petroleum products. I can think of 5,000 Americans harmed by this.
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There is no doubt that Chernobyl was a disaster, but it was not one of mythical proportions.
Chernobyl and Three Mile Island...are examples of how the anti-nuclear lobby takes every available opportunity to scare the public about nuclear power.
Nothing to worry about, except: 1) the hundreds of square miles of contaminated land, which will remain useless for decades to come; 2) the smoldering reactor remains still capable of restarting a chain reaction as it almost did in 1990.
So yeah, just another Katrina. Or a lesson for terrorists. Nothing big. Really.
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This also applies to the use of nukes on Japan in 1945. The numbers have been greatly inflated.
The Army wanted to know the real effect of the weapons. They conducted an extensive survey of the bombing. They tracked down the rice allotments being shipped to the cities to determine the population before hand. They then conducted a census of the survivors to include having residence identify people living on their streets and neighborhoods. This took time, so they were also accounting the radiation sickness casualties as well. By the completion of the survey the number for Hiroshima was near 66,000 with another 5,000 from long term radiation. As related in this article, most of the radiation victims died within a year of the event. Both Japanses and American authorities tracked the authentic radiation cases. This was a census not a sampling.
However, the Anti-American and anti-nuke community has for years inflated the numbers, never showing how they got those same numbers. Its was interesting in the late 90s as the 'death' number from Hiroshima rose beyond a 100,000, then 150,000. Its finally starting to dawn on some that those are just people who were there when the event occured and their deaths are not linked in any fashion to that event.
We all know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor named Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, "If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied, too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.'"
"Here is how they do it," Lamm said: First to destroy America, "Turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country. History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar Seymour Lipset put it this way: 'The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy. Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, "We could make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: 'The apparent success of our own multiethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved! Not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentrically and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.'"
Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America reinforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school."
"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all minorities to think their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population."
"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity! Unity is what it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they worshiped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic Games.
A common enemy Persia threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to over come two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell.
"E. Pluribus Unum" From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the 'pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo."
"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits ~ make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'x! xenophobes' halt discussion and debate."
"Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of 'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, "Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis's book Mexifornia. His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."
There was no applause.
A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Every discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America take note of California and other states to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984." In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy are deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path, especially The American Dream.
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Scary... true and scary.
It is part of the reason the Roman Empire fell. Massive non-latin speaking peoples coming in the borders and not being Romanized.
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So, what do YOU do ? As an American, what steps do you take, NOW ?
The first step may be to destroy the democrat party. Why ? Because they require a constant counter move by patriotic Americans to keep focused on the problem. I could also include the MSM. They also NEED to be destroyed. They are focused against Bush, but he isn't the problem. To win a war, we must wage a war. To wage a war, we must first identify the enemy, or, in this case, the problem. We can't put up with being constantly sidetracked by MSM and democrats.
Only a few men have the problem in focus. If we were to join with them with both verbal support and financial support, we could advance their message and place these few at the front of the political reality. Among them are Congressmen Hayworth and Tancredo. There are others, I'm not totally aware of who. I'm just a concerned patriot. We should keep the discussion going and spreading. Do what you can, but above all, don't ever surrender.
Time is vital, so don't delay.
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I agree with a lot of what the Gov said. And I contrast it with the experiences of other recent immigrant groups.
The Asian-Indian demographic is a rapidly growing group. In my town they are the largest minority group. And, no, they are not all doctors and engineers. More and more are shopkeepers and employees in grocery stores and other "regular" jobs. One thing I have noticed is that most of them seem to enthusiastically embrace American culture and customs - especially the kids - without losing their own. Maybe the fact that they speak English (at least the ones that work) is the big difference.
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wxjames is on to something. Something drastic (unfortunately) needs to happen and soon. Here in Atlanta, diversity is gonna kill us. Heck, my own suburban county has moved from something like 85% white in 1990 to 54% white in 2005. The increases? Blacks are now about 20%, Asians are about 10% and Hispanics make up about 15%. Nothing against other races, and I enjoy sharing my cul-de-sac with a black couple (1 neighbor), Mexican couple (other neighbor) and an Asian family across the street. BUT, when your groups go out demanding "rights" when you're not here legally, and then overcrowd our local hospitals for "free" healthcare (I've seen this change in just the 2 years between my daughter and son being born), demand spanish be mandatory in some schools, etc., you've crossed the "border" so to speak with us as a nation. So, I say Ron Paul (R-TX)/Tom Tancredo (R-CO) as the next Presidential ticket. Tancredo for the immigration issue and Paul for the spending/new "laws" issues (he's pretty much a libertarian in many people's minds). Sadly, this will never happen with the national Repubs.
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Historical currents. We'll go imperial before the fall. A lot of people aren't going to be happy. Particularly the ones who keep hitting the thousand pound gorrilla with a stick. When they finally get the gorrilla's attention, they're not going to like it.
BTW, the Romans may have had a lot of internal problems, but letting in the Goths was the one that killed them.
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IOW, transform America into separate and co-equal, co-sovereign State(s) within a State. The Lefties suppor these pro-ilegal immigration marches are fighting for illegals to stay permanently illegal, and permanently supported in their agendas by both the State and AMerican taxpayers, i.e a STRATIFIED OR MULTI-STRATIFIED, WILFULLY DEFICIT-BURDENED SOCIETY WID MANY AUTONOMOUS OR SELF-GOVERNING CANTONS/ENCLAVES.
* BURTH-ISM > the Dems-Lefties will fight and vote for these before they take it away from you, and them, later on. THey'll fight for these in the name of the deficit, etal. and later take it away in the name of same.
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We all know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor named Victor Hansen Davis talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how immigration both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
