Attention Illegals and Supporters: English is our Societal and Cultural Glue.

The vast majority of the American people- including legal Latinos of many nationalities- are alarmed and angry at the current status of foot dragging in resolving the torrent of illegals streaming across our southern border with Mexico on a daily basis. Hidden in the torrent are jihadists determined to cause mass slaughter of Americans.

This vast majority can also be viewed as the melting pot majority. Their heritage recognizes that we are all descended from immigrants at some point in time between Columbus and today and also recognizes their ethnic culture and customs contributed to the unique American culture
cherished today by the melting pot majority. The unspoken or little spoken premise is that each of the myriad of ethnic cultures and languages is a small part of the total melting pot. None can become dominant as part of the blend except by immigration of any single culture/language with overwhelming numbers.

The English language is dynamic and everchanging, reflecting the dynamism of the underlying culture. It is the common bond and the only effective way for the people of the many various cultural backgrounds to communicate with each other. English then becomes the most crucial component of our unique American culture and American identity. The melting pot majority does not intend to stand idly by while multiculturism, multilingualism and encroachment by any
single culture/language brings on the disunity of warring factions focused on gaining suremacy vs. each other as the American society and our prosperous American nation crumbles into oblivion.

The encroaching culture/language is from Mexico . Unfortunately, the absence of countervailing
actions in the past and feeble efforts today when Manhattan project scope is mandatory must now be countered with extreme measures. The ladders and tunnels arguments are ludicrous, a double wall must be built and patrolled with overwhelming manpower and the latest suitable technology.

The rising prices argument or even economic disaster arguments because cheap illegal labor is not utilized are weak. If higher pay scales are necessary to replace illegals the melting pot majority will absorb them gladly as part of halting illegal immigration in its tracks.

Unknowing employers must be provided with the instant ability to screen out illegals. A court has stayed the first federal government effort to establish an adequate system.

Employers knowingly hiring illegals must be punished with sufficient financial pain to stop this practice . Homeland security must assign adequate manpower to do the job. The melting pot majority will not accept a token effort.

An often repeated argument by supporters is the physical impossibility of finding and deporting 12 million or more illegals. Of course not, why even countenance such a cost prohibitive project.

Controlling employers and a policy of permanently and relentlessly ferreting out illegals could work. Illegals are said to live in the shadows now. The shadows will grow even darker when an illegal knows he can be found and deported with expedited procedures along with all family at any time, anywhere. I am certain other measures can be taken in addition to the few but critical
ones outlined above.

The melting pot majority believes the debate has gone on ad nauseum. The time has come for a full court press until the illegal immigration problem without amnesty or any other concession is brought under control.

Distractions of the Global Warming Myth

Initially, the climatologist/meteorologist community ignored the sheer absurdity of man-made global warming advocates - believing that such a mentality would fade away as certainly as the predictions of end times from the next religious group to do so.

Understandably but also unfortunately this allowed the man-made global warming alarmists to gain a foothold of one sided influence in the common man's thinking.

In recent years the climatologist/ meteorologist community- realizing the seriousness of the developing situation- began to counter the fiction of man-made global warming alarmists with solid, indisputable scientific facts . While not too late, it certainly extends the time, effort and resources necessary for the common man- preoccupied with the everyday problems of making ends meet- to understand and accept that man-made global warming is the largest myth ever in the history of mankind.

My purpose is not to dwell on the pro or cons of the now intense debate. One need not be a "rocket scientist " -as we like to say in the vernacular- to see that attempts to equate the Carbon Dioxide concentration in the atmosphere vs. the Sun's variable radiation intensity, cloud cover and ocean currents as they effect temperature, can only be viewed as absurd.

I hear and see nothing taking into account the distractions- becoming very high future costs- now impacting individuals, groups, local and state government jurisdictions and the federal level as well ( Kyoto, anyone? ). Just a smattering of recent news stories will suffice to project where we are going as a nation.

Individuals: Singly or in like minded groups trying to reduce carbon emissions by reading with candlelight to name one. Touching, yes. Necessary? a resounding no!

Local and state governments: Ill advised outright bans or restrictions on carbon emissions without any consideration on costs and lost jobs. A distraction from running their jurisdictions effectively, efficiently and wisely.

Churches: Countrywide church organizations such as the National Council of Churches calling for assistance to the poor to compensate for highger costs ( taxes ) to reduce carbon emissions.
A distraction from focusing on novel ways to raise funds to assist the poor.

Corporations: Portraying themselves as providing green products , made with green processes when their true interest is improving the bottom line. A distraction from providing products and services that meet people's needs at the lowest possible costs. In particular, oil companies creating the naive impression that alternate fuels are just around the corner in their advertising.
The need to develop alternate forms of energy stands on its own without the justifications of unnecessary carbon reductions, thank you. Fossil fuels are not an inexhaustible source of energy. Again a distraction with a very short sighted view.

Federal: The ethanol program using corn as the prime source is beneficial to farmers and Archer, Daniels Midland and no one else. Food costs are rising sharply, all in the name of reducing carbon emissions. A distraction from the need to permit domestic oil/gas drilling until such time-and long time- as alternate fuel technology can be established, production ramped up to sufficient levels and distribution is adequate.

Future historians may record the folly of today's distractions becoming the destructions that made a once great nation a second rate nation

The declining value of American citizenship.

My father legally immigrated to the United States in 1906 from his native Sicily at age16. Originally, he planned to return after remitting sufficient cash for his parents and siblings to purchase more land and homes. After a few years here, he realized there was no going back for him. He married, settled down, raised a family and began the long, arduous task of becoming a U.S. citizen.

On his march to citizenship, I vaguely recall something called a half paper, then more vividly his first paper a few years later, then his exam on basic American history and civics for which he laborioously studied and I quizzed him on over the years. Then , one fine day his triumphant return from Boston after being sworn in as a U.S. citizen.

My dad's pursuit of citizenship was certainly not unique. Nearly all other immigrants in those post depression, pre ww2 days in Lawrence, Mass., circa 1939, shared the same general experience because the value of U.S. citizenship was priceless. The standard response, regardless of ethnicity, to any critic of America was " No one is forcing you to stay here".

Sadly. in recent decades after an awakening to the illegal immigration problem across the southern American border with Mexico we began to hear more and more of the changes that cumulatively have eroded the value of what was held to be priceless not that many years ago.
Illegals on welfare, healthcare via the emergency room, bilingual elementary education ( rescinded in California ), store signs, public signs, operating instructions,etc. in both english and spanish. Can you imagine the morass created by every ethnic group back in Lawrence if they had demanded everything be bilingual in their own native tongues? Some politicians and some business men in pursuit of extra votes or bucks have caved in to this notion seemingly without a thought given to the erosion of their own citizenship value as well as all legal americans.

Today, after years of neglect, congress is finally doing something about the problem. What do we get? A senate bill that not only repeats the mistakes of Simpson/Mazzoli in 1986 but grants illegals social security benefits, a guest worker proposal that allows mostly unskilled illegals to compete with our lowest income Americans and per Robert Rector's calculations could give us anywhere from 60 to 100 million immigrant-residents, all from a single culture , that will with certainty overwhelm our unique American culture. Exactly the opposite of the melting pot concept. The melting pot took immigrants- Irish, Italian, Polish, German, French, Chinese, Japanese,latino - and like the classic concept of the economic invisible hand, molded this plethora of cultures into the freedom and liberty loving, prosperous, fair minded American society as each ethnic culture contributed their share to the overall. Lets not let that unique achievement get trampled into just another chapter in the world history books.

Its time to pull out all the stops, get the illegal immigration stopped cold while we change our legal immigration structure to give us the skilled or non-skilled workers as our country needs on a timely basis in order for all to contribute to the " shining city on a hill ".

What is Black and White and Yellow all Over ?

Does the title remind you of the childhood riddle, " what is black and white and read ( red ) all over". As children we triumphantly said " newspapers" to a playmate not knowing the answer. In recent years an apt question, among others, might be what is "black and yellow and bled all over " What is bled is the precious reputation or hard earned career of anyone victimized by the innuendo and sensationalism of today's version of yellow journalism.

The term dates back to the last decade of the 19th century referring to the no holds barred if not vicious war between William Randolph Hearst ( New York Journal ) and Joseph Pulitzer ( New York World). After yellowing the San Francisco Examiner,Hearst moved to New York, purchased the Journal and raided the World staff including Richard Outcault the cartoonist for the comic strip "the yellow kid". Pulitzer countered with a comic strip of the same name and competed witrh Hearst for the most outrageous coverage of sensational stories. Indeed, both newspapers practiced jingoism to such an extreme that historians credit them with inciting the Spanish-American war of 1898 and branded their journalistic practices as yellow journalism.

This is not to say that the 1890's was preceded by an era of highly professional journalism. On the contrary, it was the practice since the beginning of the republic, spreading like an infectious disease from the big city papers to all others in varying degrees. Notable exceptions are the Wall St. Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. For a century the old gray lady, the New York Times, lived up to its motto " only the news thats fit to print" . In recent years the Times has been jolted by false and contrived reporting, a consistent bias against conservatism in general and George W. Bush in particular. The Times coverage of the Abu Graib prison story is illustrative of their succumbing to the tide of yellow journalism now imbedded in both the print and electronic media.

Sadly, since the Viet Nam war the print and electronic media have added a new dimension to yellow journalism. They have chosen sides in the political debate of our country, openly and defiantly, slanting news reports against anything and anyone conservative; in the meanwhile maintaining
total silence on the miscues of all non-conservatives. They themselves are the single biggest contributor to the rise of the alternative media to an extent that threatens their very survival.
Significantly, traditional media practitioners seem puzzled as to why they are losing their previously unchallenged influence on public opinion. So far there is little if any indication that traditional media can reform itself. Perhaps they are similar to the least productive, least effective persons in a partcular work force who are shocked when they are fired.

The founding fathers included freedom of the press as a first amendment prohibition against government control of information and inquiry. The implicit assumption was an equivalent level of obligation to properly discharge their resposibility to serve the public trust. Unfortunately, that has been a problem from day one, only getting worse as the years, decades and centuries have marched on. A particular public poll seems tlo be the upper limit on their ability to dig up and provide truthful, accurate information to the public on a specific subject. They demand all kinds of special treatment under the guise of the public's right to know. Their behavior is now impeding justice because some people are unwilling to testify in court given the mudraking they must endure. Recently a florida schoolteacher went scott free after admitedly seducing a 14 year old boy because the parents and the boy feared the fallout from the media coverage. It is seriously sad that one of the guarantors of liberty the founding fathers envisioned has evolved in to a guarantor of the erosion of liberty and freedom.

smoking ban hyper hypocrisy

Smoking Ban Hyper Hypocrisy
Colorado becomes the 12th state to enact a state wide smoking ban, a dubious distinction at best, an uncostitutional violation of property rights at worst, legislative hyper hypocracy in either case. Worst still a Republican governor reportedly eager to sign the smoking ban into law. The large tax revenue from casinos was obviously protected but the prospect of zero income revenue for small neighborhood bars and the loss of associated jobs was acceptable.
The stated justifications such as employee health fall totally flat since all were matters of personal choice to begin with, particularly when weighed against property rights. The arrogance of statements like " a smokers rights end at the nose of a non-smoker" are offensive. The only act even more offensive was that of the American Cancer Society ,proud ot their participation - along with their Democrat and Republican compatriots in the legislature- in this mega intrusion in the lives of so many.
Any glee on the part of non-smokers will be a fond memory when their turn in the barrel comes up : fatty foods, junk foods, high cholesterol foods, suv's, guns. You name it.
Bar owners and patrons should combine their money and efforts in massive resistance, by virtue of court challenges and raising their voices until they are heard ending in a crescendo of bipartisan votes against all office seekers who supported ths ban or will not pledge support for rwpeal of the ban.