April 7, 2006
Questions about being retired:
Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
Question: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees?
Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.
Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire?
Answer: Underwear and tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire?
Answer: NUTS!
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch?
Answer: Normal.
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement?
Answers: The never ending Coffee Break.
Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree?
Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses the people he used to work with?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
Newspaper Headline
Two boys in Boston were playing baseball when one of them was attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy ripped a board off of a nearby fence, wedged it into the dog's collar and twisted it, breaking the dog's neck.
A newspaper reporter from the Boston Herald witnessed the incident and rushed over to interview the boy. The reporter began entering data into his laptop, beginning with the headline:
"Brave Young Red Sox Fan Saves Friend From Jaws Of Vicious Animal"
"But I'm not a Red Sox fan," the little hero interjected.
"Sorry" replied the reporter. "But since we're in Boston , I just assumed you were." Hitting the delete key, the reporter began:
"John Kerry Fan Rescues Friend From Horrific Dog Attack"
"But I'm not a John Kerry fan either," the boy responded.
The reporter said, "I assumed everybody in this state was either for the Red Sox or John Kerry or Ted Kennedy. What team or person do you like?
"I'm a Texas Ranger fan and I really like George W. Bush" the boy says.
Hitting the delete key, the reporter begins again:
"Vicious Conservative Brat Kills Beloved Family Pet
Intelligent Design is not Creationism
The following is a good example of the above joke on how those in the media can purposely mischaracterize an issue. For those who may not know Neal Boortz is a Libertarian and a nationally syndicated radio show host. Neal has this rabid fear that if someone sneezes and someone else says “God bless you” in a public building that that is a government endorsement of religion. For some time I have heard Boortz repeatedly state that “Intelligent Design” is another way of saying “Creationism” which is incorrect. So I sent him an e-mail resulting in the following short exchange:
This is Neal’s original web posting:
MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND
Scientists have discovered a fossil that shows the stage of evolutionary development at which creatures first started to emerge from the Earth's oceans and walk on land. The lack of just such a fossil has been one of the mainstays in the arguments of those who have been touting the cause of "intelligent design." Intelligent design, of course, is just a fancier way of saying "creationism." So, now we sit back to wait for the latest round from those who want to teach Biblical evolution in our government schools. What will they have to say about this new fossil? Or will they just demand that nothing about this fossil be taught in school science classes.
-----Original Message-----
From: davidbennett
Sent: Thu 4/6/2006 3:09 PM
To: Nuze, Nealz (CXR-Atlanta)
Subject: MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND (from boortz.com/boortz)
Neal
Once again you demonstrate that you don't have any grasp of the subject when you say "Intelligent design, of course, is just a fancier way of saying "creationism." and "will they just demand that nothing about this fossil be taught in school science classes." You seem to have some ulterior motive for continually linking the two as one and the same.
Intelligent Design and Creationism are in fact two distinctly different ideas.
The only real difference between Intelligent Design and evolution as is taught is evolution says that things got started by chance or by accident billions of years ago. Intelligent Design says that an intelligent being started the evolutionary process [billions of years ago] and guided it and that life is not an accident but has a purpose.
Creationists teach that God created everything in six days about 6,000 years ago.
Intelligent Design does not say "who" created everything. It could have been Zeus or Vishnu or any combination of many gods. Therefore one could be a Christian, a Hindu, pagan or an agnostic and still subscribe to Intelligent Design.
Creationists believe that the Judeo/Christian God created everything.
The fact of the matter is for the most part the proponents of both Intelligent Design and Creationism do not want evolution banned in schools. So the argument that our kids won't learn "real science" is a red herring. The plain truth is those who want to teach the science behind ID or Creationism just want to be able to apply the same critical analysis to evolution that is applied to them (If the goal is truth how can that be bad?). They are not the ones interested in indoctrination or blindly accepting what's presented to them, that distinction belongs to the evolutionists
By refusing to allow any discussions of Intelligent Design and/or Creationism, in addition to evolution, you are the one who wants to suppress what is taught in school thereby touting the religion of evolution. I don't mind learning about evolution just as I don't mind learning about the science behind Intelligent Design even though I don't subscribe to either one.
It is interesting that evolutionists claim there is no scientific evidence to support Intelligent Design or Creation theories, then when we try to make the case using science to prove our position they start screeching that it is "religion" and dismiss it out of hand. Apparently they're not interested in the truth because they're afraid the truth could point to a conclusion they'd rather not have to deal with.
You unquestionably accept this fossil story as fact and assume it is correct. The only fact is it's just someone's unprovable assumption. You blindly accept it because you want to justify your position at any cost. You think that to admit in school that specific assumptions of evolution could possibly be in error is the same thing as teaching religion in school.
Frankly I find you rational akin to Sarah Brady claiming if one person is allowed to own a hand gun that we'll have the shootout at the OK Coral in every town. This fossil story is about as valid as the "experts" that claimed that a person is more likely to die with a gun in their home than without one. Turned out that study was faked.
Or how about the experts in the 70's that claimed that it was "unarguable" that the ice age was on the way and that within ten years there would be mass starvation in the US and Europe because of shorter growing cycles?
Now the same people are now telling us it is "unarguable" that man-made global warming is upon us.
Yet you are upset that the correct science debunking what is taught about global warming and other ecco-scares is prohibited and not allowed the light of day. I assume you think the evidence for both sides should be presented. Your position seems very inconsistent to me.
David
From: Neal
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:35 PMTo: davidbennett Subject: RE: MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND
Give it a rest.
I'm not interest in your religious dogma.
From: davidbennett
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:54 PM
To: Neal
Subject: RE: MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND
What religious dogma? I was merely pointing out that you keep claiming Intelligent Design and Creationism are the same thing when they are not.
I didn’t criticize you for not believing either one. It would appear to me that I’m not the one with the religious dogma.
Give it a rest? You’re the one that went on the rant, I was just commenting on it. I guess you can’t even politely agree to disagree…
David
------end of e-mail----
I admit Neal probably didn’t bother to read what I wrote either time as evidence by what he put on his website this morning about the religious whackos coming out of the woodwork to attack him.
From Neal Boortz’s web page 4/7/06: FEAR AND LOATHING OF A FOSSIL
Yesterday on the program I mentioned that scientists have discovered a fossil that seems to bridge the gap between creatures who lived in the sea and those who walked on land. The fossil is something like 400 million years old (Neal, what do you mean “seems to bridge the gap” and “something like”, you mean they don’t know for sure?). I told my listeners that this fossil was going to cause no small amount of emotional distress among the creationism, intelligent design crowd.
…What we're seeing here, of course, is the insecurity of the people writing these emails. Something has happened that causes them to question what they have long believed. Rather than try to reconcile the existence of this fossil, and what it shows, with their beliefs, they attack those who bring news of the fossil, and the fossil itself.
What a sad way to live one's life ... cringing in fear of the truth.
Neal Boortz
----------------------
Once again Neal’s dogma has obscured the issue. My point to him (I can’t speak for the others that e-mailed him) was a) he was mischaracterizing both Intelligent Design and Creationism as well mischaracterizing the issue of teaching scientific facts and b) he was automatically assuming that the premise in the article was fact and unarguable. I guess he’s afraid of questioning what he believes in.
I never approached any of this by arguing the merits of ID or Creationism or criticizing his nonbelief. I merely pointed out that he was accepting what the article said without question.
It looks to me like its Neal that’s cringing in fear of the truth, what a sad way to live one's life…
By the way here is a great Creation Science website: http://answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp and here is a link to their commentary on the same story Boortz was talking about http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0406fishin.asp
How does Mexico treat its illegals?
April 6, 2006- "We can't infringe upon the right of people to move freely within our territory," said Mexican President Vicente Fox during President George W. Bush's recent visit. Earlier, Fox said he stood by the statement he previously made to the BBC: "I dare say that in 10 years, the U.S. will be begging, will be pleading with Mexico to send it workers."
…Mexico put its military and police forces on its porous, zigzagged, mountainous, crime-ridden southern border with Guatemala. Chiapas – the South Carolina-sized southern Mexican state that shares the longest border with Guatemala – is Mexico's poorest, most illiterate state. About Chiapas, one United Nations human rights commissioner said, "Mexico is one of the countries where illegal immigrants are highly vulnerable to human rights violations and become victims of degrading sexual exploitation and slavery-like practices, and are denied access to education and health care."
Typically, when Mexican authorities catch illegal aliens, they place them overnight in a detention center, then bus or fly them back to their country of origin. Despite the fact that Mexico militarized its border and deported 203,128 illegal immigrants in 2004, many illegals get through by bribing corrupt military and police…
…Do Mexicans appreciate the way America has allowed so many poor, Mexican illegals to enter the United States? No. According to a recent Zogby poll, 73 percent of Mexicans call Americans "racist"…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49620
San Diego Fence Provides Successful Lessons in Border Control
April 6, 2006 · As Congress looks to revamp immigration policy, some lawmakers are pushing to extend fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico. Proposals range from beefing up existing fences in Arizona to constructing new fences that would span 700 miles. Those advocating expanded fencing already have a model they can look to: a fence the federal government built more than a decade ago along a 14-mile-stretch in San Diego, Calif., that borders Tijuana, Mexico.
Before the fence was built, all that separated that stretch of Mexico from California was a single strand of cable that demarcated the international border.
Back then, Border Patrol agent Jim Henry says he was overwhelmed by the stream of immigrants who crossed into the United States illegally just in that sector...
...Today, Henry is assistant chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector. He says apprehensions here are down 95 percent, from 100,000 a year to 5,000 a year, largely because the single strand of cable marking the border was replaced by double -- and in some places, triple -- fencing....
...Here in San Diego, we have proven that the border infrastructure system does indeed work," Henry says. "It is highly effective."
Rancher Carol Kimsey, who lives in a valley near the Pacific Ocean on the U.S.-side of the fence, says the border barrier has improved the quality of life in the area...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5323928
Guests or gate crashers? Part I
Mar 28, 2006 by Thomas Sowell
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/28/191503.html
Guests or gate crashers? Part II
Mar 29, 2006 by Thomas Sowell
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/29/191639.html
Sen. Reid, Senate Floor speech on IMMIGRATION (Senate - September 20, 1993) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609629/posts?page=5#5
Harry Reid has undergone an extreme makeover on immigration reform.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/TimChapman/2006/04/05/192633.html
Reid flips on illegals: 'Change of heart' after his tough bill in '93 emphasized failure of amnesty
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49609
Harry Reid: now and then
http://www.townhall.com/blogs/capitolreport/TimChapman/story/2006/04/04/192542.html
FLASHBACK: Dem Senate Leader Harry Reid: 'Our Federal Wallet Stretched To Limit By Illegal Aliens Getting Welfare'
http://drudgereport.com/flash1hr.htm
ACLU 'falsely' boots out abstinence program
April 6, 2006- A group that had its abstinence education program barred by the state of Rhode Island after a complaint from the local ACLU, says the civil liberties group is spreading half-truths and distortions.
Heritage of Rhode Island, which produces a curriculum called "Right Time, Right Place," says the ACLU has falsely claimed a video in its program makes specific references to "a relationship with Jesus" and other faith-based issues, reports Agape Press.
...Plante contends the ACLU is confusing his group's video with a "Christian school version."
"We use a video called 'No Apologies,' which is published by Focus on the Family," he said, according to Agape. "When they originally did the video, they did two versions – one for public schools and one for Christian schools. We use the public school version."
...He notes that since last September, the ACLU has been engaged in a national anti-abstinence campaign in which it has accused federally funded abstinence programs of being "based on ideology and religion."
"It is becoming clear that the ACLU is more interested in promoting their agenda than ensuring that teenagers receive a balanced message that includes abstinence," he said. "When the ACLU couldn't find any religious teaching in our programming, they bent the truth to fit their national platform."
..."We strive to work with integrity," Plante said, according to Agape. "By law our programming and materials must not include sectarian instruction, prayer, worship or proselytizing. Any institution we work with must understand that neither party can address abstinence from a faith perspective during our presentation."
Heritage is calling on the ACLU to "retract its false claims in the same manner they were initially proliferated."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49613
Iraq Car Bombings Plummet
April 5, 2006- There's good news out of Iraq that the big media doesn't seem to think is newsworthy. Suicide car bombings have plummeted in the last year by a stunning 84 percent.
…In fact, the plunge in car bombings has been so dramatic that rumors are flying that Abu Musab al Zarqawi - al Qaeda's Iraq operations chief who specialized in suicide car attacks - may have been fired.
…A source with close ties to Iraqi insurgent groups tells the AP that Zarqawi was removed as al Qaeda's Iraq commander after his deadly attack on hotels in Jordan backfired by driving up Sunni support for US-backed elections.
The wire service says that the drop in car bombings is "a possible sign of Zarqawi's waning influence."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/5/230928.shtml?s=ic
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http://www.freewill-predestination.com
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove
Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
Question: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees?
Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done.
Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire?
Answer: Underwear and tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire?
Answer: NUTS!
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch?
Answer: Normal.
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement?
Answers: The never ending Coffee Break.
Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree?
Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses the people he used to work with?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
Newspaper Headline
Two boys in Boston were playing baseball when one of them was attacked by a rabid Rottweiler. Thinking quickly, the other boy ripped a board off of a nearby fence, wedged it into the dog's collar and twisted it, breaking the dog's neck.
A newspaper reporter from the Boston Herald witnessed the incident and rushed over to interview the boy. The reporter began entering data into his laptop, beginning with the headline:
"Brave Young Red Sox Fan Saves Friend From Jaws Of Vicious Animal"
"But I'm not a Red Sox fan," the little hero interjected.
"Sorry" replied the reporter. "But since we're in Boston , I just assumed you were." Hitting the delete key, the reporter began:
"John Kerry Fan Rescues Friend From Horrific Dog Attack"
"But I'm not a John Kerry fan either," the boy responded.
The reporter said, "I assumed everybody in this state was either for the Red Sox or John Kerry or Ted Kennedy. What team or person do you like?
"I'm a Texas Ranger fan and I really like George W. Bush" the boy says.
Hitting the delete key, the reporter begins again:
"Vicious Conservative Brat Kills Beloved Family Pet
Intelligent Design is not Creationism
The following is a good example of the above joke on how those in the media can purposely mischaracterize an issue. For those who may not know Neal Boortz is a Libertarian and a nationally syndicated radio show host. Neal has this rabid fear that if someone sneezes and someone else says “God bless you” in a public building that that is a government endorsement of religion. For some time I have heard Boortz repeatedly state that “Intelligent Design” is another way of saying “Creationism” which is incorrect. So I sent him an e-mail resulting in the following short exchange:
This is Neal’s original web posting:
MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND
Scientists have discovered a fossil that shows the stage of evolutionary development at which creatures first started to emerge from the Earth's oceans and walk on land. The lack of just such a fossil has been one of the mainstays in the arguments of those who have been touting the cause of "intelligent design." Intelligent design, of course, is just a fancier way of saying "creationism." So, now we sit back to wait for the latest round from those who want to teach Biblical evolution in our government schools. What will they have to say about this new fossil? Or will they just demand that nothing about this fossil be taught in school science classes.
-----Original Message-----
From: davidbennett
Sent: Thu 4/6/2006 3:09 PM
To: Nuze, Nealz (CXR-Atlanta)
Subject: MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND (from boortz.com/boortz)
Neal
Once again you demonstrate that you don't have any grasp of the subject when you say "Intelligent design, of course, is just a fancier way of saying "creationism." and "will they just demand that nothing about this fossil be taught in school science classes." You seem to have some ulterior motive for continually linking the two as one and the same.
Intelligent Design and Creationism are in fact two distinctly different ideas.
The only real difference between Intelligent Design and evolution as is taught is evolution says that things got started by chance or by accident billions of years ago. Intelligent Design says that an intelligent being started the evolutionary process [billions of years ago] and guided it and that life is not an accident but has a purpose.
Creationists teach that God created everything in six days about 6,000 years ago.
Intelligent Design does not say "who" created everything. It could have been Zeus or Vishnu or any combination of many gods. Therefore one could be a Christian, a Hindu, pagan or an agnostic and still subscribe to Intelligent Design.
Creationists believe that the Judeo/Christian God created everything.
The fact of the matter is for the most part the proponents of both Intelligent Design and Creationism do not want evolution banned in schools. So the argument that our kids won't learn "real science" is a red herring. The plain truth is those who want to teach the science behind ID or Creationism just want to be able to apply the same critical analysis to evolution that is applied to them (If the goal is truth how can that be bad?). They are not the ones interested in indoctrination or blindly accepting what's presented to them, that distinction belongs to the evolutionists
By refusing to allow any discussions of Intelligent Design and/or Creationism, in addition to evolution, you are the one who wants to suppress what is taught in school thereby touting the religion of evolution. I don't mind learning about evolution just as I don't mind learning about the science behind Intelligent Design even though I don't subscribe to either one.
It is interesting that evolutionists claim there is no scientific evidence to support Intelligent Design or Creation theories, then when we try to make the case using science to prove our position they start screeching that it is "religion" and dismiss it out of hand. Apparently they're not interested in the truth because they're afraid the truth could point to a conclusion they'd rather not have to deal with.
You unquestionably accept this fossil story as fact and assume it is correct. The only fact is it's just someone's unprovable assumption. You blindly accept it because you want to justify your position at any cost. You think that to admit in school that specific assumptions of evolution could possibly be in error is the same thing as teaching religion in school.
Frankly I find you rational akin to Sarah Brady claiming if one person is allowed to own a hand gun that we'll have the shootout at the OK Coral in every town. This fossil story is about as valid as the "experts" that claimed that a person is more likely to die with a gun in their home than without one. Turned out that study was faked.
Or how about the experts in the 70's that claimed that it was "unarguable" that the ice age was on the way and that within ten years there would be mass starvation in the US and Europe because of shorter growing cycles?
Now the same people are now telling us it is "unarguable" that man-made global warming is upon us.
Yet you are upset that the correct science debunking what is taught about global warming and other ecco-scares is prohibited and not allowed the light of day. I assume you think the evidence for both sides should be presented. Your position seems very inconsistent to me.
David
From: Neal
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:35 PMTo: davidbennett Subject: RE: MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND
Give it a rest.
I'm not interest in your religious dogma.
From: davidbennett
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 4:54 PM
To: Neal
Subject: RE: MISSING LINK FOSSIL FOUND
What religious dogma? I was merely pointing out that you keep claiming Intelligent Design and Creationism are the same thing when they are not.
I didn’t criticize you for not believing either one. It would appear to me that I’m not the one with the religious dogma.
Give it a rest? You’re the one that went on the rant, I was just commenting on it. I guess you can’t even politely agree to disagree…
David
------end of e-mail----
I admit Neal probably didn’t bother to read what I wrote either time as evidence by what he put on his website this morning about the religious whackos coming out of the woodwork to attack him.
From Neal Boortz’s web page 4/7/06: FEAR AND LOATHING OF A FOSSIL
Yesterday on the program I mentioned that scientists have discovered a fossil that seems to bridge the gap between creatures who lived in the sea and those who walked on land. The fossil is something like 400 million years old (Neal, what do you mean “seems to bridge the gap” and “something like”, you mean they don’t know for sure?). I told my listeners that this fossil was going to cause no small amount of emotional distress among the creationism, intelligent design crowd.
…What we're seeing here, of course, is the insecurity of the people writing these emails. Something has happened that causes them to question what they have long believed. Rather than try to reconcile the existence of this fossil, and what it shows, with their beliefs, they attack those who bring news of the fossil, and the fossil itself.
What a sad way to live one's life ... cringing in fear of the truth.
Neal Boortz
----------------------
Once again Neal’s dogma has obscured the issue. My point to him (I can’t speak for the others that e-mailed him) was a) he was mischaracterizing both Intelligent Design and Creationism as well mischaracterizing the issue of teaching scientific facts and b) he was automatically assuming that the premise in the article was fact and unarguable. I guess he’s afraid of questioning what he believes in.
I never approached any of this by arguing the merits of ID or Creationism or criticizing his nonbelief. I merely pointed out that he was accepting what the article said without question.
It looks to me like its Neal that’s cringing in fear of the truth, what a sad way to live one's life…
By the way here is a great Creation Science website: http://answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp and here is a link to their commentary on the same story Boortz was talking about http://www.answersingenesis.org/docs2006/0406fishin.asp
How does Mexico treat its illegals?
April 6, 2006- "We can't infringe upon the right of people to move freely within our territory," said Mexican President Vicente Fox during President George W. Bush's recent visit. Earlier, Fox said he stood by the statement he previously made to the BBC: "I dare say that in 10 years, the U.S. will be begging, will be pleading with Mexico to send it workers."
…Mexico put its military and police forces on its porous, zigzagged, mountainous, crime-ridden southern border with Guatemala. Chiapas – the South Carolina-sized southern Mexican state that shares the longest border with Guatemala – is Mexico's poorest, most illiterate state. About Chiapas, one United Nations human rights commissioner said, "Mexico is one of the countries where illegal immigrants are highly vulnerable to human rights violations and become victims of degrading sexual exploitation and slavery-like practices, and are denied access to education and health care."
Typically, when Mexican authorities catch illegal aliens, they place them overnight in a detention center, then bus or fly them back to their country of origin. Despite the fact that Mexico militarized its border and deported 203,128 illegal immigrants in 2004, many illegals get through by bribing corrupt military and police…
…Do Mexicans appreciate the way America has allowed so many poor, Mexican illegals to enter the United States? No. According to a recent Zogby poll, 73 percent of Mexicans call Americans "racist"…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49620
San Diego Fence Provides Successful Lessons in Border Control
April 6, 2006 · As Congress looks to revamp immigration policy, some lawmakers are pushing to extend fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico. Proposals range from beefing up existing fences in Arizona to constructing new fences that would span 700 miles. Those advocating expanded fencing already have a model they can look to: a fence the federal government built more than a decade ago along a 14-mile-stretch in San Diego, Calif., that borders Tijuana, Mexico.
Before the fence was built, all that separated that stretch of Mexico from California was a single strand of cable that demarcated the international border.
Back then, Border Patrol agent Jim Henry says he was overwhelmed by the stream of immigrants who crossed into the United States illegally just in that sector...
...Today, Henry is assistant chief of the Border Patrol's San Diego sector. He says apprehensions here are down 95 percent, from 100,000 a year to 5,000 a year, largely because the single strand of cable marking the border was replaced by double -- and in some places, triple -- fencing....
...Here in San Diego, we have proven that the border infrastructure system does indeed work," Henry says. "It is highly effective."
Rancher Carol Kimsey, who lives in a valley near the Pacific Ocean on the U.S.-side of the fence, says the border barrier has improved the quality of life in the area...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5323928
Guests or gate crashers? Part I
Mar 28, 2006 by Thomas Sowell
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/28/191503.html
Guests or gate crashers? Part II
Mar 29, 2006 by Thomas Sowell
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/thomassowell/2006/03/29/191639.html
Sen. Reid, Senate Floor speech on IMMIGRATION (Senate - September 20, 1993) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1609629/posts?page=5#5
Harry Reid has undergone an extreme makeover on immigration reform.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/TimChapman/2006/04/05/192633.html
Reid flips on illegals: 'Change of heart' after his tough bill in '93 emphasized failure of amnesty
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49609
Harry Reid: now and then
http://www.townhall.com/blogs/capitolreport/TimChapman/story/2006/04/04/192542.html
FLASHBACK: Dem Senate Leader Harry Reid: 'Our Federal Wallet Stretched To Limit By Illegal Aliens Getting Welfare'
http://drudgereport.com/flash1hr.htm
ACLU 'falsely' boots out abstinence program
April 6, 2006- A group that had its abstinence education program barred by the state of Rhode Island after a complaint from the local ACLU, says the civil liberties group is spreading half-truths and distortions.
Heritage of Rhode Island, which produces a curriculum called "Right Time, Right Place," says the ACLU has falsely claimed a video in its program makes specific references to "a relationship with Jesus" and other faith-based issues, reports Agape Press.
...Plante contends the ACLU is confusing his group's video with a "Christian school version."
"We use a video called 'No Apologies,' which is published by Focus on the Family," he said, according to Agape. "When they originally did the video, they did two versions – one for public schools and one for Christian schools. We use the public school version."
...He notes that since last September, the ACLU has been engaged in a national anti-abstinence campaign in which it has accused federally funded abstinence programs of being "based on ideology and religion."
"It is becoming clear that the ACLU is more interested in promoting their agenda than ensuring that teenagers receive a balanced message that includes abstinence," he said. "When the ACLU couldn't find any religious teaching in our programming, they bent the truth to fit their national platform."
..."We strive to work with integrity," Plante said, according to Agape. "By law our programming and materials must not include sectarian instruction, prayer, worship or proselytizing. Any institution we work with must understand that neither party can address abstinence from a faith perspective during our presentation."
Heritage is calling on the ACLU to "retract its false claims in the same manner they were initially proliferated."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49613
Iraq Car Bombings Plummet
April 5, 2006- There's good news out of Iraq that the big media doesn't seem to think is newsworthy. Suicide car bombings have plummeted in the last year by a stunning 84 percent.
…In fact, the plunge in car bombings has been so dramatic that rumors are flying that Abu Musab al Zarqawi - al Qaeda's Iraq operations chief who specialized in suicide car attacks - may have been fired.
…A source with close ties to Iraqi insurgent groups tells the AP that Zarqawi was removed as al Qaeda's Iraq commander after his deadly attack on hotels in Jordan backfired by driving up Sunni support for US-backed elections.
The wire service says that the drop in car bombings is "a possible sign of Zarqawi's waning influence."
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/4/5/230928.shtml?s=ic
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