Interesting facts

Not my info, but I received this in an email from a friend.

Remember the election in 2006?

Thought you might like to read the following:

A little over one year ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;

2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;

3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;

2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3..50 a gallon;

3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);

4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);

5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;

6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it! Remember it's Congress that makes law not the President. He has to work with what's handed to him.

On Taxes...

Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing. www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Both democratic candidates will return to the higher tax rates

It is amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If Obama or Hillary are elected, they both say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman; you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.

On the War in Iraq

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read this:

Boy am I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that its the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.
I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at:http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.Verify at:http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.Verify athttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &social services by the American taxpayers.
Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular,their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at:http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.Verify at:http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. 'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.'Verify at:http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Are we THAT stupid?

If this doesn't bother you then just click on by.

If, on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope you forward this URL to every legal resident in the country including every representative in Washington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restore some semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof.

Deputy Kills Knife-Wielding Man At Courthouse

Good job, Deputies...thanks for your service. You are truly heroes.

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CONFESSION TIME - Clinton ‘Misspoke’ About Bosnia Trip

The Clinton campaign says Senator Hillary Clinton may have "misspoke" recently when she said she had to evade sniper fire when she was visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady.

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Saddam admits he faked having WMDs

In a new book, former FBI agent George Piro was able to get a lot of information out of Saddam Hussein before he was executed.

Among tidbits gleaned from an online article (click here), Saddam had the entire west fooled about WMDs in an effort that was originally mounted to dissuade Iran from attacking Iraq. Well, it worked for Iran, but not the West.

Other tidbits; he confessed to slaughtering 180,000 Kurds, he admitted to plotting to build a doomsday nuke, he was a hypocritical Muslim in his non-religious behavior, and he believed UN sanctions would be lifted.

All in all, the world is a better place without him.

How does the United States ensure only US citizens cast votes in elections?

The simple answer is that we don't.

South Carolina is the only state that has stringent ID requirements which will ensure the person casting a vote is a US citizen. (Click here to see all state voting requirements)

Most states only require "voters" to present a utility bill showing the name and address on the bill is the same as what is on the voter list. I would submit that any illegal alien can get utilities in his/her name without proving they are US citizens.

Even if a voter cannot produce something as simple as a utility bill, most states only require that an "affidavit" is filled out by the voter that swears he is who he says he is. What a bunch of pure, unadulterated BS.

The bottom line -- people in this country illegally are voting on issues that have the ability to reshape our societal and economic landscape. They are voting for people who will have vast influence on our lives and the lives of our progeny. My fear is that those votes will unfairly and illegitimately move this country in a direction contrary to the intent of the Founders.

One of the reasons men and women of this country fought enemies and died for us was to make sure US citizens kept rights and freedoms, including the right to vote. It is shameful to think that those lives were given in vain if we can't ensure only citizens cast votes.

The Founders would be spinning in their graves if they knew non-citizens wielded such power.

We must take positive and proactive steps to ensure only US citizens cast votes in all elections...whether they are local, state, or federal.

Lying in Islam

For those of you who believe the likes of Iranian President Mahmoud Amadinijhad when he says that his country loves all peoples and doesn't want to destroy Israel, please read this item about how Muslims believe it is perfectly fine to lie if it furthers the goals of Islam.

http://www.islamreview.com/articles/lyingprint.htm

boxofficemojo.com reviewer Scott Holleran's review of "Lions for Lambs"

“…the Bush administration's undeclared, unsuccessful so-called war on terror…”

Unsuccessful? We have not been attacked since 9/11. I'd call that a pretty good success.

“…President Bush's Iraq military presence…has cost thousands of American lives—with no gain for the nation.”

No gain for the nation?? Again, we have not been attacked since 9/11. Only a flaming liberal idiot would claim there has been no gain for the nation.

“The brash student is [a] spoon-fed automaton…”

Another typical liberal view -- that anyone who wants to defend their country, way of life, and for the future protection of our society is nothing but a spoon-fed automaton. They simply can't believe that someone could be so dumb."

“…strand of hope for a future influenced by new intellectuals…”

Yessss...only the "new intellectuals" have enough brains to protect our country, way of life, and society. We need more intellectuals like Rosie O'Donnell, Dennis Kucinich, Matt Damon, Barbara Streisand, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robert Redford. Surely, with all that brainpower, these fine folks will be able to intellectualize our way out of the fact that uneducated, wide-eyed, fanatical, 12th Century thinking, religous war zealots want nothing but to convert us (and all non-Muslims) to Islam or separate our heads from our bodies. I'm not feeling too confident about that.

“…She [Streep] is the embodiment of today's media stars: a willing exponent of a wrong war. “

Today's media is a willing exponent of a wrong war??? Which media have you been reading/viewing/listening to, Mr. Hollaren?

“…Lions for Lambs, which does not offer an alternative, shows that we are all either lions or lambs.”

If Redford is supposed to represent the "intellectual" who gives the "strand of hope" for the future of our country, why doesn't he "offer an alternative"? This is another typical liberal position -- moan, complain, stomp feet about the current state of affairs...but, not offer suggested and better paths.

They don't, because they know in their hearts that being a Lion is the only way to go when confronting evil personified. I guess they forget that Lambs are at the bottom of the food chain, eaten by predators and their bones picked clean. I don't know about you...but, I don't plan on being eaten.