From: "Alex Gimarc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Monday, Dec. 1, 2008 Interesting Items 12/01 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Economy 2. Rock Creek 3. FOCA 4. Franken 5. Mumbai 6. Obama 7. Cystic Fibrosis 8. Mormons 1. Economy. Last week, the serial bailouts of failing financial institutions ratcheted up yet another notch, with the total of loan guarantees now over $8 trillion. Folks, there isn't that much money available to the feds, and should they print it, we are set up for a period of hyperinflation not seen since the end of Jim my Carter's infestation of the WH in 1980. To date, there has been nothing done to work the underlying problems associated with the economic crash. The Community Investment Act still exists and is still being used by ACORN to give mortgages to people that cannot pay them back. Sarbanes-Oxley is still in place, complete with the ridiculous mark to market accounting rules that has triggered the serial failures of Wall Street, investment, bank and most recently insurance firms. Capitol gains and corporate income taxes remain high, and are expected to increase in the very near future, hardly the recipe for financial improvement. This problem is government caused. If the government simply got out of the way, it would right itself in short order, which is why the Obamaoids are not talking about any of the above. In the words of Rahm Emanuel, why waste a serious crisis, as it is a vehicle to shove through new policies that the public would otherwise never tolerate. 2. Rock Creek. The Rock Creek mine near Nome suspended its operations last week, putting 150 locals out of work. The mine had been fighting the greens for years, and had unsuccessfully been able to navigate the death of 1,000 cuts imposed by environmental regulators at the state and federal levels. They got precious little help from the local government at Nome . This is yet another example of the costs imposed by environmental rules and regulations and the job killing nature of both. It is getting so that small commercial resource based operations simply do not have the funds available to support the regulatory burden. The mine closing also represents an opportunity for the Palin administration to step up and get the state into the position where it supports environmentally responsible businesses. Editors note: Hope Alex doesn't mind. FYI Rock Creek is a gold mine. Rich Martin http://www.miningweekly.com/article.php?a_id=143534 3. FOCA. One of the crown jewels of the pro-aborts is the so-called Freedom of Choice Act (Orwell would have been proud of this name), which nationalizes every single anti-abortion rule, regulation and law nationwide. The legislation would eliminate the ability of physicians to opt out of performing abortions based on religious grounds. The Catholic Church operates a number of medical facilities nationwide and is threatening to shut them all down rather than having their doctors perform medical procedures that they are religiously inclined not to perform. Now, I think that this law can be opposed using the very foundation that the pro-aborts have used to construct their little house of cards – that of the right of privacy. For, if the government must respect our rights of privacy as the foundation of gay rights and abortion, that right of privacy must also kick in when we make the choice not to do something. If the courts find one way for the pro-death and gay rights crowd, and another way for the pro-life and traditional marriage people, they undermine all their unconstitutional social engineering. FOCA? Bring it on. 4. Franken. It appears that Al Franken and his democrat election thieves have been unsuccessful in stealing a US Senate seat in Minnesota . With the final vote tallies complete, Franken sits about 282 votes less than Norm Coleman. Franken is expected to start working his way through rejected absentee ballots, getting court permission to hunt down individuals, bring them before the court, and have them testify about mistakes made in the ballots. He and Harry Reid (D, NV) also have a nuclear option, where they can get Franken seated as the elected representative based on allegations of electoral misconduct by Minnesota election officials. Don't put it past the new democrat majority in the senate to pull this stunt, as it has been done before by democrats in the House. Of course, if Franken and Reid do this, Franken will not be welcome in Minnesota . 5. Mumbai. Members of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage (Islam) staged yet another one of their little outreach efforts last week in Mumbai , India . At least 10 terrorists, all well trained and armed with light automatic weapons and hand grenades shot up a train station, killed the top cops at the initial engagement, and took control of two luxury hotels that catered to westerners. They spent the next three days torturing and killing over 300 people, with the western and Israeli guests getting the worst of the action. As of this writing, there are thought to be at least five of the little vermin still on the loose. The terrorists posed as Malaysian students and were all nice, young, photogenic Muslim men. After the initial engagement at the station, local cops and military quit shooting back for an extended period. The hotels apparently did not have emergency plans in place nor did they have armed guards. The entire affair was exacerbated by India 's draconian gun control laws, which turns the local citizenry into sitting ducks when these vermin show up. They are thought to have been trained in Pakistan by the ISI, which is part of the Pakistani government that has been infiltrated and is very friendly to Islamists. As of this writing, passions for a military strike into Pakistan are building in India . We will hope they can keep the lid on. Remember this event over the next few years when the democrats in congress start proposing new taxes on ammunition, new controls on gun shows, new limits on gun ownership and transportability, or repeal of concealed carry laws between the many states. Expect much more information out as the enormity of this barbaric event becomes widely known. And never, ever forget that this is what we are fighting. If it can happen in Mumbai, it can also happen in any American city or state with strong gun control laws in place. 6. Obama. Now for all you black helicopter fans (note to all: military helicopters are mostly black / dark green, as that is the color of the anti-infrared paint), the latest and greatest on the Obama birth certificate caper. Last summer, several Hillary supporters filed lawsuits demanding Obama produce his birth certificate on the grounds that he was born in Kenya and not a US citizen. Obama fed into this a bit by having his records sealed in Hawaii in October. AJ Strata of the Strata Sphere investigated in September and is convinced that it is all hooey. The lead lawsuit by Phil Berg was dismissed out of hand in Philadelphia . However, last week SCOTUS Justice Souter issued a writ of certiorari ordering Obama to produce the actual birth certificate by December 1. The goal of the Hillary supporters is to get Obama designated as ineligible to be president and remove him before the Electors meet in the various state capitols on Dec 15. I don't know why Souter stepped in on all of this at this time. Whatever happens, it will be fun to watch, the perceived coverup will be moderately damaging to Obama himself, and it will give the tinfoil hat crowd something to do for the next four years. 7. Cystic Fibrosis. I originally thought this one was yet another California story. Fortunately, it comes out of Carelton University in Ottawa, where the local student association voted to drop a Cystic Fibrosis charity out of the list of recipients of an annual university fundraiser. The grounds for this decision was that in the opinion of the young skulls full of mush the disease primarily hits white men and is therefore not sufficiently inclusive for them to support a charity any more. No word yet on whether they have also dropped the sickle cell anemia or HIV / AIDS charities. Hot Air, Weds. 8. Mormons. The State of California declared religious war against the Mormon Church last week for having the temerity to support traditional marriage. The California Fair Political Practices Commission took up a single complaint by a gay rights group calling itself Californians Against Hate accusing the church of failing to report the value of work it did to support Proposition 8. California is quickly becoming a politically correct Star Chamber not unlike the Canadian Human Rights Tribunals which have become vehicles for hate groups like Muslims and gay rights fascists to shut up all opposition. We will see how far California travels down this slippery slope. We will also see how far the gay rights narcissists go in their attempt to bully, threaten, coerce, and beat up all that oppose their self-serving view of the perfect world. As I have said before, the laws of physics also apply to the political world, and for every action, there will be an equal and opposite reaction. If the gay rights crowd, backed by the full power of the bureaucracy of the State of California and their cheerleaders in the democrat p art y, decide to go after an entire church for a political position, there will be a significant and unpleasant reaction. And it will be most well deserved. The Mormons are not going to take this sitting down and are now ramping up to fight the assault. I ran across one blog site called Sue California for violating the civil rights of Californians that did not support gay marriages. The lawyers are going to make a gosh-awful lot of money off this one. Here's the URL: http://suecalifornia.blogspot.com/ AP, Mon. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations: MatSu Valley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com ; District 28 http://www.dist28.com/ , subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/ and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc Rod M art in's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column: http://www.thevanguard.org/ I'M MAD, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With ACORN, La Raza, and Ohio Dem officials sitting on 20,000 suspect voter registrations and other Dept heads releasing Joe the Plumber's confidential information, this has been an incredibly, uncreditable election. Hope you didn't waste your time and gas to stand in line at one of their polling places hoping the electoral system isn't a fraud. Rich Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
