From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #462 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Sunday, August 19 2001 Volume 02 : Number 462 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:33:52 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: Stem Cell Breakthrough (fwd) From: "House, David Alan" Subject: {SD-2} Stem Cell Breakthrough Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 15:54:30 -0500 Apparently via Newsmax: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday August 14, 2001; 2:20 p.m. EDT Adult Stem Cell Miracle Breakthrough Reported in Canada In a development that could halt the political momentum behind embryonic stem cell research, a scientist working at Montreal's McGill University has made the first-ever discovery of human stem cells in the skin of adults. The findings of Montreal Neurological Institute researcher Freda Miller, first published Monday in the scientific journal "Nature Cell Biology" are generating "huge" interest in the scientific community, according to the Montreal Gazette -- though the American media has by and large ignored the miraculous breakthrough. "The dream scenario would be to take someone with spinal cord injuries, say an 18-year-old, take a biopsy from their skin and use that to treat the injury in the same patient," Miller told the Gazette, which noted that her discovery may even facilitate the regrowth of human organs. Before Miller's find, scientists believed that adult stem cell research would never be as productive as the embryonic variety, since adult stem cells are found only in the brain and bone marrow. "(Skin-derived stem cells were) just not on the radar screen in terms of the way any of us were thinking," Miller told the Gazette. "The idea of lots of stem cells in different tissue is a very, very new one. Can it be true that you could get a stem cell from one place and it would make another kind of cell? We didn't believe it ourselves." The medical implications of Miller's discovery are "enormous," the paper said, especially as they relate to the embryonic stem cell debate in the U.S. "Opinions vary but the prevailing view in North America seems to be that obtaining stem cells from human embryos, even to cure diseases, is considered immoral. The embryo is destroyed in the process." But Miller's research opens the door to a world of new, far less controversial possibilities. "We gave it two months," the Montreal scientist said of the research into skin-derived stem cells. "But it worked right from the beginning. Every step of the way it's been an 'I can't believe that it's true' experience." The McGill University research team found that its isolated cells began growing in grape clusters and duplicating "at an amazing speed" -- once every two or three days. What's more, the skin-based adult stem cells were able to produce different types of cells. "It was almost a hybrid or a more promiscuous version of those adult stem cells," Miller told the Gazette, adding, "It's very exciting." Still, despite the enormous scientific and medical potential of the McGill University discovery, more than a day after the Gazette report, the U.S. media continues to ignore the story. In its Tuesday edition, the New York Times, for instance, was still touting the wonders of embryonic stem cell research, with a front page story on the progress made in Britain. In the U.S., only the Washington Times and the Christian Broadcasting Network have covered Miller's findings. Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: Media Bias Stem Cell Research All Rights Reserved =A9 NewsMax.com - --=20 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - --- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RK= BA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+------------------= - --- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath n= o weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand =3D Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy= a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Chr= ist - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+------------------= - --- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - --- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 14:19:14 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: Mexico reconquering U.S. territory? (fwd) From: Carl William Spitzer Subject: {SD-2} WS>>Mexico reconquering U.S. territory? Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:39:14 PDT Writer says emigration imposing Hispanic culture on North America 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A prize-winning Mexican novelist says her country is reconquering territories in the United States with a massive army of uncontrolled emigration. "The common people - the poor, the dirty, the lice- ridden, the cockroaches - are advancing on the United States, a country that needs to speak Spanish because it has 33.5 million Hispanics who are imposing their culture," said Elena Poniatowska, author of "La Piel del Cielo," a new novel release last month in Caracas, Venezuela. She was quoted by the Venezuelan Spanish-language newspaper El Imparcial in a story translated by WorldNetDaily. The writer said the pessimistic vision held by the late Mexican author Octavio Paz that the Mexican is a "loser" is a relic of the past. "Mexico is recovering the territories yielded to the United States by means of migratory tactics," she said. "Perhaps Octavio Paz could not foresee this phenomenon. But it fills me full of joy, because Hispanics can have an ever- greater influence all the way from Patagonia to Alaska." She also talked about the boom in Indian rights as a result of the fight maintained for many years by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. She said she doubted the formerly powerful ruling party - Partido Revolucionario Institucional, or PRI - would have allowed the recent Zapatista march from Chiapas to the capital. Last spring, new president, Vicente Fox, authorized the demonstration. Poniatowska was born in Paris in 1933 of Polish origin. She has lived in Mexico since she was 9 years old. Her novel won the prestigious Alfaguara de Novela 2001 Prize and has been released in 16 Latin American countries. The novelist added that she valued her experience as a journalist with the daily Excelsior in the 1950s. She has contributed articles to dozens of other Spanish-language newspapers and magazines and lectures widely in Mexico and elsewhere - including Oxford, Cambridge and Paris. She has taught at universities in Texas and Florida as well as at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell and the University of California. She is now affiliated with the political science department at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:21:42 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: Fiedor Report on the News (fwd) From: Doug Fiedor Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:28:24 -0400 Subject: Fiedor Report on the News Fiedor Report on the News A Weekly View from the Foothills of Appalachia August 19, 2001 #241 by: Doug Fiedor dfiedor@home.com - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Previous Editions at: http://209.15.142.23/reports/headsup/list-hu.htm - --------------------------------------------------------------------- FEDERAL LAW HARMS CHILDREN While out and about I noticed that a new Chinese restaurant was right next to the vitamin store where I was stopping. My stomach was carrying on because breakfast had been many hours earlier. So, I chose Chinese for lunch. While waiting for my take-out, I happened to notice a young woman attempting to deposit what appeared to be twin rug-rats into the back of a Plymouth van. The temperature was in the middle 90s, the sun was bright, the little kids were obviously cranky, and the mother didn't seem to be in any better spirits. Who knows how hot it was inside that van when she opened that door -- like an oven, probably. Not having to haul little kids around for the last couple decades, I must admit that I didn't know the procedure involved. And it did seem, to me anyway, to be a long drawn out procedure. It certainly was while standing on the hot asphalt at one in the afternoon when both the temperature and humidity were in the middle nineties. Back when I did it, I would sit (or lay, depending) the kids on the front passenger seat, toss the stroller in back and away we would go. The preferred procedure would probably be to start the car and get the air conditioner running full blast before inserting little kids and/or, open a couple doors to let some of the heat out. Anyway, the young mother went through over 15 minutes of strapping those two little kids into little seats that looked like the tilting full-body holders that supported the astronauts of the 1970s during take off. The children were, of course, protesting. Never mind. They were strapped in anyway. Then, the woman had a problem collapsing the stroller. That done, she closed the side door of the van and walked around to the driver's side. I was inside the Chinese restaurant and so could not hear what was going on out there. But it was my impression that it was very loud in that van by that time. If that procedure had taken any longer, those kids would have started cooking. So, I got to thinking -- always dangerous -- why did something that would have taken me 15 to 20 seconds now take a parent a good 15 minutes? The answer, of course, is easy: The federal government became involved. The overreaching buttinskies in the federal regulatory bureaucracy learned that they made a grievous error in mandating air bags in all vehicles. Those air bags can easily kill small people and kids. But, of course, bureaucrats will never admit when they make stupid laws. So, the bureaucrats required children be protected by a wrap- around holder somewhat similar to those once used by astronauts. There is no Constitutional authority for the federal government to even comment on our automobiles, but whatever. They did it and we didn't tell them to shut up. Therefore, the whole situation is now extremely stupid. Because, the real true fact of this case is that these unconstitutional demands of government caused harm to that young mother and her two little children. Multiply this by a few thousand instances every day around the country -- and a situation nearly as bad on a cold winter day -- and the government's mandate of lashing children into half-cages for transport becomes more dangerous than anything that happened to previous generations of kids in the family cars. Being the oldest of nine kids who were never lashed down when we went for a ride in the old '46 Ford, and later the '49 DeSoto, I remember the fidgeting and horseplay along the way. But, as I also remember, we were all within reach for a quick correction, when necessary. There was a time, way back then, when kids liked to go for a ride with their parents. All that required was to get in the car, sit somewhat still and do nothing to alarm the driver. Government changed that into some sort of major procedure. There is nothing wrong with using whatever protection that might be available for the kids. However, there are times when common sense dictates that the law must take a back seat so the rug-rats do not get char- broiled before they get home. And that is exactly why any such mandatory procedures by the federal government should be repealed. Parents, not interfering Washington bureaucrats, are responsible for how their children are transported. PROTECTING A FLESH EATING BUG Most people don't realize it, but insects are the most successful life form on the planet. Some scientists estimate that there might be as many as 10 million different types of insects worldwide. Insects are divided up into 32 orders (depending on whose taxonomic system is used) of which the largest is the beetles. There are at least 125 different families of beetles, separated into around 500,000 different species. In fact, one in every four animals on this planet is a beetle. On land, there isn't anywhere you can go where you can't find some insects living -- even in the frozen extremes of the Arctic and Antarctica during summer. Insects also sometimes exist in surprisingly large and diverse populations. One scientist inventoried an acre of British pastureland near Cambridge and found it to be quite the buggy place. He estimated there were over 1,000,000,000 Arthropods, of which nearly 400,000,000 were insects and 666,000,000 were mites. The remaining 38,000,000 were myriapods (centipedes and millipedes). Scientists do not know how many different types of insects there are in the world, or even in the United States, for two very important reasons: First, there are two many varieties to catch one of each all at the same time. And second, in the time it would take to catch one of each and catalog them all, some would have died out as part of natural selection and others would have mutated into something slightly different. That has been going on for millions of years and man cannot retard it. Besides, the number of different types of insects -- 500,000 types of beetles alone -- vastly outnumbers the number of scientists willing to study them. Nevertheless, that does not mean that some ecowhacko groups won't try to "protect" one when they can only find a few in an area. In fact, that is exactly what is happening today. And now comes the saga of one such little bug whose days on this earth are understandably numbered: The American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus), is a member of the carrion beetle family Silphidae.(1) It is the largest carrion-frequenting insect in North America and may reach a length of l l/2 inches. Carrion beetles, as their name implies, are scavengers. They eat dead flesh. There are 570 species of silphids found worldwide, and 31 of them live in North America. Eighteen different species live in Nebraska alone. Today, the American burying beetle seems to be largely restricted to areas most undisturbed by human interference -- areas where the carcasses of small dead animals can be easily located. It is not proven that there are any other limiting factors for sustaining these beetles. Their specific habitat requirements are unknown and vegetation and soil type do not seem to matter. They want dead flesh to eat and lay eggs on and that is not usually plentiful in areas where humans live. However, because ecologists are not able to find very many of them, they have to blame it on something. So, the prevailing theory is that "the disappearance of the American burying beetle involves habitat fragmentation." Which means, the beetles need more open spaces where humans do not remove dead carcasses. Other human factors affecting the beetle "might" include: (1) artificial lighting that decreases populations of nocturnally active insects, (2) changing sources of carrion because of habitat alteration, (3) isolation of preferred habitat because of land use changes, and (4) increased edge effect harboring more vertebrate competitors for dead flesh. Can't have that. So, "the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with the scientific community, has formulated a recovery plan that is now being implemented. Surveys at several places in the eastern United States are being conducted to find remnant populations so they can be protected from land development authorized or funded by state and federal agencies. The search for remnant populations is now the primary activity in Nebraska. The populations in Rhode Island and Oklahoma are being monitored, and the habitats there are being managed to prevent any disruption that might be harmful." The beetles are being reintroduced in Massachusetts from a laboratory colony at Boston University, and other introductions are planned. These beetles will, of course, remain on the endangered list. So, wherever ecologists implant the colonies will understandably become protected areas. That's how it works with today's bureaucrats and ecowhackos. They resurrect a useless bug that should be extinct. Then, they move out the people. It's a control thing. Designed to control us humans. - ----------------------------- 1. http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/beetle.html MORE UNITED NATIONS NONSENSE The third world Neanderthals and associated socialists making up the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination have criticized the American people again. This time, they said the United States' record on racism is bad and demanded a halt to the death penalty and immediate moves to stamp out police brutality. The three page preliminary report was released last Monday. According to Reuters: "The body of 18 independent experts, who monitor how signatory countries comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, noted 'a disturbing correlation between race, both of the victim and the defendant, and the imposition of the death penalty' in America. It called on the United States to ensure that no death penalty was imposed as a result of racial bias, 'perhaps by pronouncing a moratorium'."(1) According to the UN, about 54 percent of people currently on death row in the United States come from a minority background, but minorities make up just 20 percent of the population, so that's proof there must be some racial bias. These people, of course, have zero idea what they are talking about; yet they talk anyway. So, just for kicks, let's wander over to the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics(2) and take a cold, hard look at exactly who is being protected by "prosecution" of these minority perpetrators: Right up front we see that blacks were 6 times more likely than whites to be murdered in 1999 and 7 times more likely than whites to commit homicide. And, "black offenders are involved in a relatively large percentage of felony-murders (nearly six out of ten)." Would it be a good or a bad thing to protect the honest, law abiding residents of the black community against black perpetrators? Apparently, the UN takes the position that we should slap the wrists of black predators and let them back out to kill more black people. In 1999, there were 4,646 white on white homicides but only 820 black on white homicides. Yet, there were another 4,235 black on black homicides that year. In 1999, there were only 285 white on black homicides. Put yet another way, in 1999 the homicide rates per 100,000 population was 3.5 for whites, 25.6 for blacks and 3.9 for "others." Or, there were 7,938 white homicide offenders, 8,911 black and 538 "others." In all felony murder cases reported, 55.3% of the victims were white and 42.0% black. But, 39.3% of the felony murder perpetrators were white and 59.1% were black. So, what did we get out of all those numbers? One very important fact: There are nearly 5,000 black people killed annually in the United States by other black people. The black population in the United States is but a fraction of the white population, yet the number of black people killed annually is higher. This was never the case before the federal government interfered with their "Great Society" and welfare programs that decimated the black family structure in our cities. But, this is most definitely a major problem today. In Detroit, little children were shot dead from stray bullets while watching television in their own living rooms. Young punks killed just to get a car for joy riding. Two high school students shot two other students "just for something to do." The drug gangs had active contract killer squads. Often, stick-up artists would shoot the victim "just because." Some of these perpetrators were guilty of many shootings. Most of this violence was black on black. Should that make a difference? Shall we prosecute all malicious and premeditated violence to the fullest extent of the law or have different standards for different races? The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is way out of line to even mention anything that happens in the United States with all the killing, slavery and oppression currently happening in other parts of the world. If they want to support human rights, they might look into all those Christians used as slave labor in communist China's prison camps. After they get results on that, they should start on the African women captured for sex slaves. - ----------------------------- 1. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010814/ts/un_usa_racism_dc_2.html 2. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm ~ End ~ - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:23:32 -0700 From: Bill Vance Subject: Talkabout a NO-SPIN zone! (fwd) From: Howard Rothenburg Subject: Talkabout a NO-SPIN zone! Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:21:58 -0400 (EDT) From: John Shepard Passed on by a friend ~~~ Hi there John Grabbed this off the web ~ the author is unknown but he sure covers it [Name elided to protect an innocent!] The Bill of Lefts (ideals sought by liberals) includes, but is not limited, to these certain inalienable principles: Education: Politicians have the right to send their children to private schools. Commoners do not. Since big government knows best how to teach our children, "school vouchers" should not be used to allow parents to use their own taxes to fund an education at non-government schools. It is reasonable for public school teachers to oppose "school vouchers" even while 40% of them send their own children to private schools. Prayer in school or the mention of God in school is bad. Having a homosexual teach your children about sex is good. The best school teacher, especially at the college level, is a person who has never held a job in a market economy. A teacher who sets the tone for his class by wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and sandals is entitled to expect his students to behave themselves perfectly. We honestly believe that the same sandal-and-t-shirt-clad public school teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is qualified to teach those same kids about sex. Self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it. Certain minorities are entitled, even expected, to have poor language skills because it is a part of their ethnicity -- even when their families have been US citizens for many generations. These persons with poor language skills are entitled to special treatment in the educational system because the schools teach in English, not the individual's "native" language. It is desirable to have faith in unsubstantiated scientific theories and use religious principles in its practice while demanding the scientific methodology of religion. The fact that scientific theories change so fast that college text books of fifty years ago have no value in today's curricula only strengthens our faith in unsubstantiated scientific theories. Family: It is okay, even expected, to have sex before one is ready to have children or otherwise accept the responsibility consequent to having sex. Parents have no right to make decisions or even be informed regarding the sexual behavior of their minor children. Employees of government schools, being more enlightened than parents, may substitute their judgment for that of parents. Women have as much right to work as do men. If a mother chooses to work, it is reasonable for her to leave the rearing of her children to babysitters, even when her income is insufficient to pay the sitter. In this case, her neighbors are obligated to pay the sitter. Rights, Entitlements & Responsibility: Rights (which are God-given) are to be confused with privileges (which are earned). Therefore, we can say that everybody has a right to the same benefits and wealth gained by those who excel. All HIV carriers are innocent victims and must be given special "rights". Carriers of all other deadly contagious diseases are not "politically correct" and will be subject to quarantine. AIDS is spread by a lack of funding. Racism is not just for losers. Employers and college admissions committees must remember that bigotry is enlightened and honorable if discrimination is targeted at the "right" groups. Ability and initiative must never supercede ethnicity. Standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't. Quotas and set-asides are needed because we assume that certain groups of people just don't have the ability to make it on their own. Traditional gender roles are artificial but being gay is natural. Everyone who has been born has every right to live, including all convicted murderers. Persons who have not yet been born do not have a right to live. Trees can feel pain but babies can't. Therefore, saving the forests is critical and abortion is harmless. We have a right to expect all products to be safe. Therefore, if you stupidly misuse a product (ie a gun or even a cup of hot coffee) and thereby harm yourself or another person, you are a victim and are entitled to a multi-million dollar settlement. The rights of bugs, rats and weeds supercede the rights of humans. The successful must be burdened with heavy taxes for earning more money than those of us who have no initiative or talent. This makes us feel like things are fair. Deficits are a part of life, but that is only a problem for those with money. If the government gives you a credit card for health care or any other social program, use it as much as you want. Let somebody else pay the bill. Society & Welfare: We welcome all races, creeds, religions, ideologies, etc. as long as they are compatible with liberal thought. We must not tolerate any ideas which are not PC (politically correct = politically cleansed). We reject all thought which is based on traditional religion or which is based in classical morality. These outdated philosophies only hinder our "progressive" agenda. Everything is free as long as you don't work for it. Expect the government to take care of you. Therefore, you are best off not working at all. The best way to care for the unemployed and the poor is to simply give them more money rather than expect them to work for the money. This is an excellent way to buy votes for liberal political causes and candidates. Government should never take away anything it gives you. But it may take away anything you earn on your own. We can feel safe knowing that the government knows better how to spend our money than we do. Since members of the Hollywood elite demonstrate superior morality, wisdom, and judgment by their actions, solid family values, and worthwhile productions, we should respect and follow their endorsements of causes and of political candidates. The few actors and musicians who do take a stand for morality and in defense of Constitutional freedoms are kooks. Actors and musicians are inherently experts on morality, government, justice, the climate, and business. Their opinions carry greater weight than those of the real experts. The best journalist, especially on national TV news, is a person who has never held a job outside journalism. Journalists who are not US citizens have a right, even responsibility to pontificate on how US citizens choose to vote. Journalists are inherently experts on morality, government, justice, technology, business, military strategy, the climate, weather, and sports. Their opinions carry greater weight than those of the real experts. We believe that trial lawyers are selfless heroes and that doctors are overpaid. After all, trial lawyers contribute heavily to liberal causes, so they must be good guys. The death penalty is unfair to criminals. It does not deter crime. However, gun control laws do deter crime. After all, no criminal would even think of using a gun to commit a violent crime -- he might get in trouble! Only high-ranking politicians, TV talk show hosts, and criminals are entitled to the protection of a firearm. All law-abiding citizens must give or sell (at a large discount) all firearms to the government. The government, after all, is the only rightful owner of firearms and must maintain absolute control of all firearms (except those used for the protection of high-ranking politicians, TV talk show hosts, and criminals). We are not satisfied with the countless substantial and oppressive gun control laws imposed on law-abiding citizens since 1934. We want to add additional "reasonable" gun control laws, knowing full well that they will have no effect on crime, but they'll make us feel good. The NRA is bad, because its members stand up for certain parts of the Constitution. The ACLU is good, because it stands up for certain parts of the Constitution. There was no art before federal funding. Talentless people who call themselves artists must be supported by the government because nobody will buy his garbage. Government officials who refuse to use taxpayer money to support talentless artists and writers are guilty of censorship. The free market that gives us 500+ channels, can't deliver the quality that PBS does. Therefore, PBS should receive heavy government subsidies. Harriet Tubman, Caesar Chavez and Gloria Steinhem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison. Environment: US industry has made incredible progress in cleaning up the environment. But, this is not enough. Al Gore has called for a "wrenching transformation" to impose even greater regulatory burdens on US industry so they will be forced to move even more of our jobs to third-world nations with no anti-pollution regulations. Worldwide pollution will thus increase sharply, but we'll feel good having done our part in the US to control pollution. Over its vast geological history, Earth has gone through countless climatological cycles. As an example, over the past 10,000 or so years since the last ice age Earth has been in one of its many global warming phases. We believe all of this change is the fault of modern man -- especially the successful American economy. Americans must be punished for their success by imposing crippling regulation on American businesses and industries. We are very concerned about the environment. Therefore, we support presidential "executive orders" which close off public land from public use. The rights of grasshoppers and all other non-human organisms always come before the rights and needs of humans. Property owners are not entitled to the reasonable use of their property if the rights of a grasshopper or any other organism could remotely be harmed. Hunters don't care about nature but pasty, euphorians who've never been outside big cities do. Government, Politics & Regulation: The only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in charge. If we raise taxes high enough, the entire economy will be controlled by a few politicians and bureaucrats, not those greedy job-creating businessmen. Only then can everybody enjoy the prosperity we deserve. There must be plenty of mandates on the other guy. You are safe as long as you choose to do as little as possible -- then government will not impose mandates on you. Only a big all-powerful government can solve everybody's problems. To ensure big government can solve everybody's problems, it must control as much money as possible. Therefore, it is best for the federal government to extract heavy taxes from its citizens, then dole out tax money to compliant state and local governments and specify exactly how, when, why, and to whom funds will be expended rather than allow the taxation and decision making to occur at the lowest practical government level. In the event the federal government wants to solve perceived problems with out expending federal tax dollars, it need only require other entities such as businesses, state or local governments, schools, etc. expend its own money to satisfy federal goals. Whenever the federal government gets involved in a social problem, the costs of that problem go up (ie the cost of college increased sharply with the introduction of student loans, the cost of public schools K-12 soared with federal intervention while quality of education declined, the cost of retirement increased sharply with the introduction of Social Security, the cost of medicines and health care increased sharply due to excessive federal regulation, the cost of child daycare increased sharply with federal sponsorship, the cost of caring for the poor increased sharply with federal welfare programs, etc.) Although federal intervention has, in some cases, improved safety and quality of life, this increase in costs makes citizens even more dependent on big government. This is a good thing. The best politician is an individual who has never had a real job (ie a job outside politics) and who has never had to run, or work, in a business which has to function under heavy-handed government regulation. To ensure that anyone can be president of the United States, we have set the precedent to allow drug-abusing, draft-dodging, womanizing liars who are not above suspicion in financial scams and murder plots. We accept the notion that our chief law-enforcement officer can set the tone for the rule of law by obstructing justice and that the nation's commander-in-chief can keep foreign statesmen waiting while being "serviced" by subordinate government employees. Womanizing is assumed to be a typical characteristic of powerful men. Therefore, we accept this characteristic in men who have the correct ideology. Laws are best written by federal courts and regulatory agencies, so it is best for Congress to make any legislative law as vague and contradictory as possible. The military, not corrupt politicians, start wars. Therefore, the nation's military infrastructure must be under-funded and systematically dismantled. Servicemen, generally being somewhat conservative, are not to be trusted or respected. It is acceptable for politicians to sell or even give away military secrets or military-critical technology to potential enemies in exchange for substantial donations to political campaigns. Using secrecy to protect national security is bad. Secrecy to protect powerful politicians from criminal prosecution is good. It is acceptable for the president of the United States to use federal property (ie renting bedrooms in the Whitehouse) as a means for obtaining substantial donations to political campaigns. Bipartisanship means conservatives and moderates must agree with liberals. All rights reserved by the US Constitution to the States and individuals are subject to the control of the federal government. Business & Economy Whatever you do, don't ever think about employing someone. If you do hire a maid, it is best not to report it to anyone -- especially the tax collector. Businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. When highly successful businesses (ie Microsoft) fail to contribute heavily to political campaigns, their success must be punished by breaking up the business. Due to heavy regulation and taxation, millions of US manufacturing jobs have been exported to third-world nations. During the same period, millions of unskilled "service-sector" jobs have been created and countless skilled US workers have displaced into those low-pay jobs. Liberals proudly call this progress. Since our nation's economy is far more successful than most, we need to impose ever greater regulatory burdens on our industries so they can no longer afford to operate here. Then we can export our jobs to those nations which do not have such regulatory burdens. The heavy pollution, low pay, unsafe working conditions, and child labor found in those nations as a result of our exported jobs are a small price to pay if we can slash prosperity in our own nation. It's only fair. We all want to pay the lowest possible price for manufactured goods, yet we express self-righteous indignation when the workers who make those products work in slavery conditions at minimal pay. Women should be paid the same as men for "comparable" jobs, even though men of the same age typically have more time in the workforce and consequently greater skill and responsibility. Women in an office job should also be paid the same as a men whose jobs include exposure to danger and harsh weather. If a worker who happens to be a "minority" is fairly and disciplined or discharged for incompetence, poor performance, insubordination, or misconduct, he or she is entitled to charge the employer with discrimination and sue for compensation. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RKBA! ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** RKBA! - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- Constitutional Government is dead, LONG LIVE THE CONSTITUTION!!!!! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - ------------------------------ End of roc-digest V2 #462 *************************