A good friend of mine who differs strongly with me politically told me
that the opposition to Obama's programs is racist and I hear the Van Jones
resignation with references to racism.  I started to look for evidence of
racism and that Glenn Beck is viscious and inciteful to see if I had
missed what a commenter on the liberal Tom Degan Rant responded to me.  I
am almost hesitant to send this out because I think that the left has not
recognized what has happened.  The conservatives have modified Saul
Alinsky's Rules by substituting truth for deception and illusion.  Michael
Moore put out Farenheit 911 which was originally promoted as a documentary
and it made it obvious that there was a lack of depth in the presentation
which insulted a serious thinker's intelligence.  The Truthers came out
with documentaries (?) like Loose Change which were well done and
plausible from my not-very-knowledgeable standpoint on the subject.  I saw
both and I was impressed that the later packaging for the message being
promoted was substantially less open to ridicule and analysis.

I did a blog post on my perspective of why we conservatives are anti Obama
agenda and why I am incredulous that the left would deride Rush Limbaugh
for saying he wants, "Obama to fail."  If you had somebody who was driving
an armored car with the nation's total wealth in it toward a cliff, would
you cheer him on and run interference or would you try to bring the
driver's attention to the fact that he was making good time in the wrong
direction.

I AM CONCERNED ABOUT HOW GULLIBLE SOME PEOPLE ARE - HOW DO WE SELL
EACH OTHER ON PROGRAMS?

How could you possibly classify these people as racist? They are
conservatives with expertise ranging from law, economics, politics to
entertainment and they happen to be black. Thomas, Sowell and Williams are
brilliant and expert in their fields.

In looking at Glenn Beck's presentations, he has a not so unique style.
His antics and facial expressions have been done for quite some time on
some other shows.  He presents videos and quotes of the people and tells
the viewer to "Question boldly." and be peaceful because the Left wants an
incident which is proven out by the source of violence at different
events.  The left has a history of violence from the communists at LA
immigration riots, the masked instigators throwing bottles of frozen
liquid to incite riots which cost LA millions, college presentations by
conservatives where the speech was cancelled due to physical assaults on
the speaker.  I do not get my news off of TV, but I don't believe that the
media shows much of this real world situation.  We are non seeing it and
hearing about it and the people are realizing that we are responsible for
the government which we have.

The SEIU ran a full page ad about Governor Schwarzenegger's Broken Promise
because they have to be furloughed because the state of California is in a
budget crisis.  This is an OBVIOUS EXAMPLE of the level of understanding
of liberals.

Aesop's Fables deal with the issue of killing the golden goose as well as
preparing.  Rather than having a mutually beneficial relationship which
thrives and everyone enjoys something, a parasitic relationship will
eventually kill the host.  A basic in negotiations is to not kill the
benefactor.

A B Ross Howell
"Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack
of knowledge." -- Kristen Stendahl
	

Have we evolved into a nation of La la landers who perceive things as 
we want them to be, not as they really are?  Why would we, with the Senate
immigrant bill:

1. Prohibit government employees, under penalty of criminal 
prosecution from investigating documents used by immigrants to prove that they 
qualify for bypassing the immigrants choosing to take the legal path to
citizenship.  What message to the legal immigrants, approximately 
200,000 Mexican immigrants per year, do we send.

2. Ignore felonious behavior using forged documents.  Do we really 
care about law and order or is that a passé thing which our forefathers 
valued and is no longer appropriate in our world

3. Encourage people who are not educated in civics to illegally enter
another country for a better life.  Mexico is a country rich in 
resources and tourist attractions, which has chosen not to improve its citizens
quality of life to the point where their home is more bearable and appealing. 

4. Ignore the effect of the approximately $9,000.00 cost per student 
for public schooling with poor results, the approximately 25% of California
criminals being illegal aliens, the unfair advantage that the illegal
immigrant gangsters have over our homegrown gangsters, the ER health 
care program which has contributed to the closing of 7 emergency rooms in 
the sanctuary city of Los Angeles where the elected leader states that 
illegals are not criminals, but that CongressmanJames Sensenbrenner (R - WI). 
trying to deal with the problem is a criminal.  What am I missing when I feel 
like Californians have their head so far up their rear ends that they should 
be able to look out through their mouth and see reality?  Roger Dawson, an
Englishman who taught negotiating, stated that the most effective 
weapon which can be used in negotiating with an American is, “What do you 
think is fair?”   The people who choose to devalue law and order and quality of
citizenship so that they can feel good, will create a different country
which we will all live in.  A choice to do nothing is a choice.  The
ability to make a choice to preserve the value of American citizenship
diminishes as we choose to not do enough to preserve it.

I went into technical trades because I liked doing things which were
measurable and objective.  I learned vocabularies specific to my 
endeavors because communication must be accurate to accomplish the trade level 
tasks.
I found that there are analogies between the different disciplines of
thermodynamics, fluid mechanics and circuits.  It seems that we would 
do well to play less with our language and take responsibility to change 
the results of our actions rather than deny the results by blurring our
vocabulary to make us feel good when we make illogical choices based on
feelings rather than facts.  If we do not like calling something 
illegal, let us change it so that we recognize reality rather than pretending 
that life is wonderful by ignoring the real meaning of words and what they
describe.  

Each generation of Americans, in general, has had a better life with 
less sacrifice than the previous generation.  I believe that that has caused 
us to lose site of the reference points upon which our country was built. 
We have lost some of our self sufficiency and become vulnerable to 
retirement, healthcare, education issues which a lot of us feel that the government
should solve for us.  It seems to me that the government’s interference 
in these matters has contributed to the problems as much as it has dealt 
with them.

THE MISSION OF THIS WEBSITE IS THE FIRST STEP IN PROBLEM SOLVING-----
ESTABLISHING THE FACTS

PARTICIPANTS ARE ON THEIR OWN FOR CONCLUSIONS

There are several very important areas where we hear different, 
conflicting “facts” depending on the source.  This website is here to help identify 
the DECEIVERS and establish the truth so that we may more accurately define 
the issues.

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.”  
-- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It is often said that defining the problem is half of the battle. 
Establishing the truth and collecting accurate information is the basic
step needed in order to define the problem.  I hear a lot of emotional
arguments and think of a quote,

"The opinion of 10000 men is of no value if none of them know anything
about the subject." Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 121-180 AD

The information on this site will be a compilation of information from
others.  The validity of an entry may be challenged by the submission 
of a fact challenging or disproving the validity of an entry and that fact,
after verification, will replace the invalid entry.  This is intended 
to be a dynamic, evolving site.

If you get too emotional over the substantiable facts presented on this
site to participate, it may indicate that the UK's Mirror printed 
Michael Moore's observation of Americans: "They are the dumbest people on the 
face of the earth...in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks...We 
Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's
happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing." (1)  has
some truth to it.  It may even apply to us relative to what is 
happening within our country.

I have chosen the immigration issue as my first category because it is 
a transition for our country.  American citizens have a busy life and pay
attention to what is grabbing us at the moment.  We do not get involved 
in something that is not directly affecting us.  There are prohibitions to
collecting data so that we can analyze the immigration situation, draw 
a logical conclusion and formulate a plan.  We would have a better 
ability to decide on a choice in the range of ceding California to Mexico, 
building a fence and manning it with our military or helping Mexico develop its
country and raising its people’s standard of living.   This is a very
complex issue where drug traffickers and coyotes, better armed than our 
law enforcement agencies, go relatively unchallenged and a citizen group 
doing the job that our elected officials will not do is called vigilantes and
followed by the ACLU desperately searching for something negative.  
This very complex issue affects our future financial well being and our 
national security.  Why do both parties not care enough to solve the problem 
which the polls show is a major concern to a large number of US citizens.  
One of the possibilities is that our terror fighting politicians are terrified 
of the drug cartels because they see what happens to Mexicans who want to
clean up their country.  It could also be that the organizations 
fighting drugs and dealing with social programs used by low income people 
provide a large number of well paid positions to make the economy do better.  It
could be that politicians pander for voters and payoffs by doing 
something to the detriment of the country that they are sworn to serve.  I have 
no idea.

In the trades, we learn a vocabulary so that there is clear, concise
communication.  The liberal arts people might not live in a world which
requires that clear of a communication and words like illegal alien can 
be substituted with better feeling words like  undocumented immigrant or
surreptitious immigrant.  I understand that people want to feel good, 
but an important decision like our border is not unlike passionate 
intercourse.
It feels incredibly good during the moment and you are not down to 
earth, but if you conceive, you live with the reality of your decision to do 
it for a long, long time.  I believe that we need to worry less about how 
an accurate description feels than the results created by the reality
described by those accurate words.  We can choose to change our laws, 
but our citizens are the ones with the right to do what they want with our
country, not someone who has not been screened and educated to qualify 
to legally immigrate to the US.  To do otherwise is our choice and we can 
give control of portions of our country to a minority group who leaves a
resource rich country which cannot support its population because of 
its government and let them make our country like they want it to be.  Is 
our country a magnet for these people in spite of what we have created or
because of what we have created?  The majority of these people are good
people seeking a better life like our forefathers.  The American Indian
could not enforce their sovereignty and look where they ended up after
failing to do it.  Most countries, including Mexico, screen immigrants 
in light of what they can contribute to the country.   Why would Americans
complain about our gas prices and cost of living and ignore the 
acquisition of a financial burden to support millions of poor people?  If we do not
take care of our country, how will our country take care of others.  Is
there a more generous, dollar wise, country in the world?

One basic component of the illegal alien issue is education.  If it 
costs over $9,000.00 per student for students in California schools and a 
family has two children in school, is there a net gain for the state or do the
citizens of the state need to contribute enough in taxes to support
education, medical and social assistance in addition to the taxes paid 
by that family?  What is the average income tax paid by that family?  Take 
the overall effect of millions of illegal aliens and think about absorbing 
a mass of people with limited English and knowledge of the effect of 
using the subsidies available to low income people.  A large voting 
population taking advantage of social assistance could conceivably burden the 
state budget to the point where income tax rates need to be raised or 
Proposition 13 is attacked so that property taxes can be raised to pay for the
programs.  Of the approximately 7000 aliens naturalized in Los Angeles 
in the spring of 2006, the majority were Mexican per a news release 
showing that we do have a process for immigration.   Our state demographics 
include a wide variety of national backgrounds who are homeowners, business 
owners and public employees.  The effect of a decision to feel good while we
ignore the cost could put us on the road to not being able to take care 
of our citizens who need assistance.   Congressman J. D. Hayworth states 
that we allow 210,000 legal immigrants per year.

This is not an ethnic issue.  We will make decisions (a decision to do
nothing or not pay attention to this matter is a decision) regarding 
this matter and it will affect our country.  An accurate depiction of the
effects of immigration might even lead to a solution not yet proposed. 
Doing more of what doesn't work, doesn't work.  Let us find a positive
place to go and take the first step to get there.  We can do more great
things for others if we preserve the good things which we have 
inherited from our forefathers.
	

HOW DO WE HANDLE ATTACKS AGAINST OUR COUNTRY AND IT’S ASSETS –
WHAT MESSAGE DO WE SEND TO THE WORLD?

1977 TO 1981 JIMMY CARTER

Nov 1979 - Attack on US Embassy in Tehran. Military Islamic students 
take 44 US hostages.
 
1980-82 - Various incidents of kidnapping and murder of Americans 
through Middle Eastern nations; particularly Bharain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.  
 
1981 TO 1989  RONALD REAGAN

1980-82 - Various incidents of kidnapping and murder of Americans 
through Middle Eastern nations; particularly Bharain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.  

April 1983 - Vehicle loaded with high explosive driven into US Embassy
compound in Beirut, Lebanon.  Detonation kills 63.
 
October 1983 - Truck loaded with 2,500 pounds of TNT (gas enhanced) 
smashes into Marine Barracks in Beirut.  241 killed; three times that many 
wounded.
 
September 1984 - Another truck bomb at the new American embassy in 
Beirut. 11 more killed.
 
April 1985 - Bomb detonated in bar frequented by US soldiers and 
sailors in Madrid, Spain.  4 killed, many wounded.
 
August 1985 - VW loaded with explosives driven into main gate of 
Rhein-Main Air Force Base in Germany.  22 killed.
 
October 1985 - Cruise ship Achille Lauro hijacked at sea.  American Jew
Leon Klinghoffer is selected from the hostages because of his religion 
and executed while in his wheelchair.
 
April 1986 - TWA Flight 840 bombed.  4 killed.
 
May 1988 - PanAm Flight 103 destroyed by a bomb in mid-air over 
Lockerbie, Scotland.  259 killed.
 
1989 TO 1993  GEORGE H. W. BUSH

January 1993 - Two CIA Agents shot and killed by Islamic militant 
sniper outside CIA headquarters at Langley, VA.
 
1993 TO 2001 WILLIAM J. CLINTON

February 1993 - Truck bomb detonated in parking garage of World Trade
Center in NYC.  Six killed; more than 1,000 wounded.

RANGERS/DELTA FORCE OPERATION IN Mogadishu, Somalia on 10/3/93 after 
which, per the 911 Report, Osama Bin Laden said that al Queda was dug in for 
the long haul and the US ran

November 1995 - Car bomb detonates at US MIlitary Complex in Riyadh, 
Saudi Arabia.  Seven killed.
 
June 1996 - Barracks Complex at Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arbia
bombed and destroyed.  19 killed; 500 wounded.
 
1999-2000 - Coordinated attacks on embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.  
224 killed.
 
October 2000 - USS Cole attacked and damaged by suicide boat-bomb 
attack while on port visit in Aden, Yemen.  17 American sailors killed.
 
GEORGE W. BUSH

September 2001 - Attacks by hijacked commercial airliners on twin 
towers of World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  More than 3,000 Americans killed.