Give Me a Break!

Mexico is planning to legalize hard core drugs like cocaine and heroin. Vicenti Fox is expected sign the legislation into law.

But don't worry, it will still be illegal to sell drugs. This bizarre move is so the Mexican police can concentrate their efforts on major drug crimes.

Come again, the Mexican Police--they are part of the problem. Elements of the Mexican Army and National Police have been observed assisting the illegal transport of hard drugs across the border.

This is just another development in a long line of unfriendly acts. Consider the following:

1. The Mexican Government actively encourages the illegal violation of our common border by Mexican citizens.
2. I still remember Mexicans cheering when the World Trade Center came down on 9/11.
3. Mexican Army and National Police Units have violated the border and fired on American law enforcement personnel.

Now they want to legalize drugs, making it easier to traffic in hard drugs. I wonder how much the illegal drug lobby is paying to make it happen.

Fiddlers

Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

Gas prices are going through the roof again, just like they have the past several summers. This is not a new story, and I never look to Washington for answers or solutions.

But it would be nice if they got of the way.

Have you asked yourself why no new refineries have been built?

Do you know why there are 35 gasoline blends?

Suddenly we are faced with an ethanol shortage and price rise.

The fiddling Congress bans off shore oil drilling and prohibits the exploitation of the Alaska reserves. This country has not built a new nuclear power plant in almost thrity years. We probably have the equivalent of 500 years of coal reserves. Oil wells remain capped through out the country, and vast land tracts are kept off limits.

Experts believe that 50 miles off shore (in the Cuban basin) there might be 9 billion barrels. Alaska probably has an additional 10 billion. Instead, we are held hostage to rising prices in places run by madmen like Iran and Venezuela.

American refineries have been running at 98% capacity for several years now. This is not a new fact. Yet nothing has been done to ease regulations.

What do these numbskulls offer as solutions?

• $100 rebate to ease the pain. If this is like the child credit of a couple of years ago, they'll count it as income and tax you.
• Pummel the evil oil companies for obscene profits. Well if the oil companies are making obscene profits on 8 to 10 cents per gallon, what about the 46 cent average gas tax imposed at the state and federal levels?
• Blame George Bush. This is quite popular. The President deserves some blame for not pushing his energy plan. But Congress and the special interests strangling this government own the lion's share.
  

Quit grandstanding, get out of the way and let this country do what it does best.

Check the Mirror

Somehow I have landed on one of the Democratic fund raising lists. So yesterday I received a letter from Al (Earth in the Lurch) Gore. You know Slick Willy's Veep - the man who refused to concede the election - the inspiration for the great Florida chad count.

Anyway Al's missive (I mean it was an email so I feel we're on a first name basis now) first 2 paragraphs went as follows:

In all my years of public service I have never witnessed national political leaders as corrupt, incompetent and subservient to powerful special interests as George Bush and the Republican Rubber Stamp Congress.

The level of cynicism and crass political calculation that characterizes the Bush White House and the Republican-controlled Congress is truly breathtaking.

Corruption? Cynicism? Crass political calculation?

Hey Al do you remember the attempt to nationalize health care? How about bombing Bosnia from 3 miles up to avoid casualties? Then there was Monica, Paula. Juanita and who could forget Gennifer? How about the "Pretty in Pink Press Conference" and the Rose Billing Records? Or the fellow who admitted that he lied to his diary? What did you buffoons do the first time the World Trade Center was attacked? And that little detail about taking Osama off Sudan's hands, or the USS Cole bombing? And lest our wallets forget - the largest tax increase in history. How about Pardon Gate, or trashing Air Force One?

Al, check the mirror dude! When it comes down to crass, corrupt, cynical political calculation you guys lead the way.

Nut Cutting Time

A war is coming, and we (the United States) need to decide which side we are going to join. The Prophet Ezekiel talked about the kingdoms of Gog and Magog that are going to attack Israel. Now we don't know exactly who these fools are, but there are seveal theories stretching from an Islamic coalition to Europe to Russia.

It doesn't matter who they are. We need to be on the other side, because the other thing Ezekiel tells us is that Gog and Magog are going to lose.

I don't know if the current Iranian leadership is the tip of the spear or another bunch of two bit Austrian paper hanger wannabes. It wasn't that long ago when another mad man preached hate for the Jews and plunged the world into war. He sent six million people to the ovens at places called Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald. His contemporaries in Soviet Russian probably killed another 100,000,000 people and who know how many vanished inside Mao's China.

It comes down to this question. Do we take the pronouncements coming out of Tehran at their word? If so, do we move preemptively and kill them before they kill Israel?

Just in case you missed it, Iran is promising to use nuclear weapons to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. They won't succeed, but they may kill millions in the process. The United States possesses the means to prevent this carnage.

No one wants another war, but sometimes you don't have a choice.