RFK Jr. Turns Canadian, Divulges Supersecret Plan

Defending the Empire

Rattlesnakes Are Smarter Than 16% Of U.S. High-School Biology Teachers

It turns out that rattlesnakes in Arizona are starting to lose their rattles, apparently in reaction to human encroachment of their habitats. As people build houses in the desert, trample the earth to build golf courses, and roll their RVs into previously virgin territory, banging smack into wildlife, they – we - have a tendency to react badly to nature, which results in a lot of dead rattlesnakes. A handful of the rattlesnakes that haven’t ended up deceased are those that manage to keep quiet and slide on by – in other words, the rattlers that can’t rattle.

Spanish Spoken Here

The U.S. Census Bureau recently coughed up a bunch of fascinating statistics, and not only fascinating, but also depending on how your mind words, frightening, depressing, and/or mind-boggling.

And we’ll start with one little fact: Nearly three quarters of the 727,070 residents of El Paso, Texas speak Spanish at home, even if they are fluent in English. The numbers also show that 1 of every 5 living in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and California, use Spanish, not English, at home.

Think about that.

How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sarah

John McCain will lose come November, and he will lose by a lot. That’s the way it has been for a long time now, and nothing’s going to change it. And when John McCain loses, he will fade from the national scene, and not long after, disappear from the Arizona political landscape as well. And that will be that.

And then we will be left with Sarah.

Dear God, Not Sarah Palin

Let us bow our heads, my friends, and make short work of Sarah Palin: I won’t bother to repeat the details of her “unusual” family history, which promises to dip into the truly bizarre and probably unpleasant before long. Nor will I raise her dubious political story, from her duplicitous tale about the Bridge to Nowhere, and her attempted banning of books, on and on; rest assured all that will be thoroughly vacuumed in short order.

No, my issue is simple enough, and it is this: The United States of America cannot have a vice president who believes in creationism, intelligent design, or anything other than basic science.

Hilary Clinton gave her speech at the convention and she said everybody should vote for Barack Obama. Okay, she said a little more than that, she said, I did this, I stand for that, I’m really terrific…and the other guy is okay, too – but that just about summed it up.

The reaction from the media was predictable. CNN loved it, MSNBC practically swooned, and Fox thought otherwise. (Actually, if Abraham Lincoln himself had been reanimated to say something nice, a Fox host would have dismissed him, claiming the Great Emancipator maybe wasn’t a real Republican, as he hadn’t been around to vote for Reagan.)

Syndicate

RFK Jr. Turns Canadian, Divulges Supersecret Plan

Written by Len Sherman
Friday, 30 May 2008
Every decent American, every reasonable adult, every God-fearing soul, knows it’s one thing to have an argument within the family, it’s quite another to argue in front of outsiders. And so it’s one thing for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to take on the political and corporate bastards who can’t wait to despoil the environment, it’s another story when he gives aid and comfort to Canadians. We’ve been trying to keep this discussion on the quiet side, just between us. Some Canadians seem to sense this, and chatter nonstop about how the U.S. is conspiring to steal their water, how wicked politicos and rapacious corporate vultures from south of the border are conspiring day and night, how their own government has been co-opted, bought off, conned, duped, and is part of the plot. Their ultimate proof is how you never hear anything about it in the U.S., not from the media, the government, business, confirming exactly how diabolically pervasive, how insidiously organized, the conspiracy really is. And then Kennedy has to go and blow it by making a speech, in Ottawa, no less, (Canada’s capital, as in Washington, London, Paris…Ottawa?) giving up the whole scheme, soup to nuts. As reported in the Chronicle Herald: Canadians should be seriously concerned about wasteful lifestyles south of the border that could leave the U.S. dry and looking north for water, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday. "Canada is blessed with an abundance of fresh water, so I think people don’t view the issue with the kind of urgency (that’s needed)," he told The Canadian Press. He added many Canadians don’t support sending large amounts of water to the U.S., but so far, Ottawa hasn’t acted accordingly. "There’s a broad consensus in Canada that’s against bulk water transfers, but the government has been very slow to act on that consensus." Wasteful U.S.? Blessed Canada? Does the First Amendment cover such turncoat talk? Kennedy couldn’t leave bad enough alone. Oh no. He had to go into details. Kennedy said out-of-control suburban sprawl in the southwestern United States, coupled with wasteful agricultural water usage in the U.S., is spawning a water crisis that will only worsen in the future. "We are in the midst of a water crisis that has no end in sight, and the place people are looking to solve it is Canada," Kennedy said. "If you talk to the engineers and the planning and policy makers in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Phoenix and Las Vegas . . . they’ll say, ‘Well we don’t have to worry about this because we’ll just get the water from Canada.’ " As a proud resident of aforementioned Scottsdale, I have two things to say: First, I’ve never seen RFK Jr. in town, which makes me doubt the whole story, and second, I have spoken with many leading members of the community – real estate developers, public officials, people with big houses – and no one has ever said we have a water problem. Just the opposite, in fact: Nothing to worry about. One step further: Nothing to even think about. To verify this, I visited Scottsdale City Hall and uncovered pictures and documents that showed how the city fathers had planned a quarter-century years ago to create a spacious venue with plenty of elbow room for broad avenues and big cars, free of the annoying bother of subways and trains and buses and other evidence of mass transit, a spread-out community, where nobody had to walk. More specifically, a place where there was no reason to walk because there were no obvious destinations, such as neighborhoods, with neighborhood shops and restaurants and sidewalks and parks, a community free of community. “Out-of-control suburban sprawl?” Hardly. This was the plan, and it worked beautifully. Heraclitus said more than two thousand years ago that “Character is a man’s fate,” and it is the character of those who built and are still building Scottsdale and the southwest to keep their eyes on the prize, to build for today and let tomorrow take care of itself, to push and profit, demand and expand, and leave it to God or technology or their grandkids to figure out what to do next, long after they’re done raising money to run for office, long after they’ve filled up every corner of the desert with ever-bigger homes. But Kennedy apparently doesn’t want the next generation to fix it. He wants to throw a monkey wrench into the works. Kennedy added it’s important for the Canadian public to make it clear funnelling water southward is not the solution. "It’s really important for us to be able to say, ‘Canada’s not going to give us the water.’" He encouraged Canadians to pressure local governments and opposition party representatives to take action on water management. Great. So Kennedy’s spilling the beans for our own good. Uh, it doesn’t work that way. Not in the real world. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. Garry Keller, a spokesman for Environment Minister John Baird, said the government has made it clear that Canada’s water isn’t for sale. "Canada has tough laws in place to prevent the bulk export of water, and we will continue to protect Canada’s waters from bulk export." We’ll see.
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Border/Immigration

Mexico Finally Seals Border, Stops Americans From Buying Cheap Gas, Keeps Lanes Open For Drugs

Whoever said Mexicans couldn’t or wouldn’t control their border has just been proved wrong. Yes, our friends and allies to the south have finally stepped up and shut down traffic…traffic, that is, bearing U.S. plates and carrying containers fuel, looking to save a few bucks with cheap Mexican gas.
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Mexico Invades America – Again

Mexican soldiers on Arizona soil held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint Sunday night. The Mexicans retreated after backup agents responded.

This is far from the first time the Mexican military, and/or those wearing Mexican uniforms, most likely members of Los Zetas, have crossed over the border, in support of drug and illegal immigration operations. Though both governments have sought to downplay such incidents, the increasing number of these sometimes violent incursions – over 200 confirmed incursions since 1996 - makes the situation difficult to sweep under the rug.

Mexico is finding that dealing with the devil is not a deal without consequences. And those consequences are coming home to roost in a most horrific way.

Not long ago, the Mexican government maintained an “understanding” with the drug traffickers: Don’t cause problems in Mexico, and roll your drugs into the United States without too many hassles. Oh, and don’t forget the payoffs.

Whichever side you’re on in the immigration debate, the landmark raid at the Iowa meatpacking plant back in May, which rounded up 389 illegals, proves that this is an issue that demands action and resolution. The political void has resulted in a situation that is simply intolerable in a nation of laws and liberty.

To begin the abuses: More than 20 of those arrested were underage workers, some as young as 13, forced to work shifts of 12 hours or more in dangerous conditions, sometimes through the night, six nights a week, using razor-edged knives and saws to divide up freshly slaughtered beef.

The Fence Cuts Both Ways

The fence, any fence, hasa certain basic appeal: separate Us from Them, the latter consisting of the bogeymen of your choice. With the immigration crisis in full bloom, the idea ofa fence sounded as simple and as direct as a solution could be. Stop them from coming by stopping them from coming.

Ah, if reality was so black and white. Or, in the case, so American and Mexican.