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The U.S. “should place a moratorium on capital sentences, bearing in mind the desirability of abolishing death penalty,” the U.N. Human Rights Committee said in a 12-page release of findings on U.S. compliance with a 40-year-old treaty guaranteeing everyone civil and political rights.

FOXNews.com – U.N.: U.S. Uses Death Penalty More on Minorities

The UN is more worried about the minorities in the US than taking care of it’s own business in places such as Darfur. Do something about that – then we’ll talk about civil rights.

(from Chicago Tribune) Personal injury lawyers today filed the first lawsuits stemming from the CTA Blue Line subway fire and said their clients’ damages may be greater than normal due to initial fears that the accident was a terrorist attack.

Frigging lawyers. Trying to increase their contingency fees by introducing something that the defendants had nothing to do with. If they pull this off (the additional damages), our legal system sinks a few additional feet into the septic tank.

I was surprized to see this headline on Fox News along with many other news sites:

Okay, here’s the quote: See the irony is what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over. How is that cursing Hezbollah? If he called them shit (more appropriate), I could understand the headline.

The European Union on Thursday criticized Israel for using “disproportionate” force in its attacks on Lebanon following the cross-border raid by Hezbollah guerillas who captured two Israeli soldiers.

News Flash for the EU: The goal of any war is to disproportionately overwhelm the opposing force. What do you expect them to do – play checkers?

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Hurricane Katrina turned FEMA into a “symbol of a bumbling bureaucracy” so far beyond repair that it should be scrapped, senators said Thursday.

Actually, I could’ve saved them a lot of time and money wasted on congressional committees by making this one recommendation: Don’t reside on land that is beneath sea level!

Gas prices. For the past few days, those two words have been enough spike anyone’s blood pressure. And now, everyone is calling for somebody’s head, usually the oil companies. For a while, I was right there on O’Reilly’s “They’re gouging us” bandwagon, but now I’m not so sure. Sure, Exxon/Mobil’s 400 million retirement package to their CEO is about as obscene as it gets, but let’s stretch those numbers out: It is estimated that the United States consumes approximately 400 million gallons per day. So, let’s give that retirement package back to the consumers. That equals one dollar off per gallon for one day. ONE day! How many people would actually notice that?

So, for what else can we hang the oil companies for?

We can’t blame them for the lack of refineries. Environmentalists (spelled: bureaucracy ) have prevented new oil refinery construction in the United States for about 30 years now. Limited refinery production means higher prices when the refineries can’t meet growing demands. Also, thanks to environmentalists, special gasoline blends have been mandated, further slowing down production capability.

We can’t blame them for the lack of exploration and drilling, which would increase our supply. Go hang the bureaucrats.

We can’t blame them for the obscene taxes. The average tax placed on one gallon of gas is 50 cents, with some states over 60 cents. It’s not in your government’s best interest to lower gas prices, is it? 400 million gallons of gas per day multiplied by 50 cents per gallon equals $200,000,000 per day.

We can blame the oil companies, the Republicans, the Democrats, the increased demand here as well as in other countries, but the bottom line is we must blame ourselves as long as we still have a lead foot when we climb behind the wheel and as long as we don’t push for increased capacity for oil and for the development of alternate fuels.

In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man’s becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile…We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

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Dear President Bush,

I’m about to plan a little trip with my family and extended family, and I would like to ask you to assist me. I’m going to walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico, and I need to make a few arrangements. I know you can help with this.

I plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here.

So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Vicente Fox, that I’m on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. All government forms need to be printed in English.
4. I want my kids to be taught by English-speaking teachers.
5. Schools need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag flying on the top of the flag pole at their school with the Mexican flag flying lower down.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do not plan to have any car insurance, and I won’t make any effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from Pres. Fox to leave me alone, please be sure that all police officers speak English.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th.
12. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
13. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, and don’t enforce any labor laws or tax laws.
14. Please tell all the people in the country to be extremely nice and never say a critical word about me, or about the strain I might place on the economy.

I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all the people who come to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that Pres. Fox won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. However, if he gives you any trouble, just invite him to go quail hunting with your V.P.

Thank you so much for your kind help.

Sincerely,
XXXX

The students in this geography class may graduate not knowing the capitol of (insert state of choice) because the teacher is too busy teaching them to hate America.

A stern warning to parents: If you do not become immediately involved in what is occurring with the education of you children, there will soon be another generation of adults who have both no concept as to what America is really about and will practice anarchy against the US. These kids are also being raised to fight everything America stands for and to offer up no resistance, whatsoever, to the enemies of our country. In fact, these “teachers” are programming their students to believe that the enemies of the US are their “friends” and that the US, itself, is the enemy. Is this what you want? If not, GET INVOLVED! Tell those who allow these contemptible behaviors to continue that they are not only unacceptable but, that you will refuse to send your children to school unless the indoctrinators either stop their brainwashing or are removed from classrooms.

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