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Call Man-Made Global Warming a Fraud, Go to Prison

NASA scientist who started all this nonsense wants people who speak against it to be thrown in jail, apparently.

WND: 'Green' website tells when you should die

The Australian Broadcasting Company has created a "green" website that tells you when you should die, based on your usage of Earth's resources.
'Green' website tells when you should die.

Six-year-olds sexually abused by UN peacekeepers - Telegraph

Six-year-olds sexually abused by UN peacekeepers - Telegraph.

Sexual abuse of children as young as six by aid workers and United Nations peacekeepers has continued unchecked despite repeated promises to stamp it out, according to a 12-month investigation.

WND: 31,000 scientists reject 'global warming' agenda

Link: 31,000 scientists reject 'global warming' agenda.

More than 31,000 scientists across the United States, including more than 9,000 Ph.D.s in fields including atmospheric science, climatology, Earth science, environment and dozens of other specialties, have signed a petition rejecting "global warming," the assumption that the human production of greenhouse gases is damaging Earth's climate.
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The petition is needed, supporters said, simply because Gore and others "have claimed that the 'science is settled' – that an overwhelming 'consensus' of scientists agrees with the hypothesis of human-caused global warming, with only a handful of skeptical scientists in disagreement."
The list of scientists includes 9,021 PhDs, 6,961 at the master's level, 2,240 medical doctors, and 12,850 carrying a bachelor of science or equivalent academic degree.
The Petition Project's website includes both a list of scientists by name as well as a list of scientists by state.

When Trash is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Trash

Link: War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for 'crime' of putting two jars in wrong bin | the Daily Mail.

A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin. Lenny Woodward, a former Desert Rat who has lived in the same house for 58 years, was confused by a new regime of fortnightly collections and rigid recycling rules. Residents have a blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass and a black bin for other waste.

Free Market Think Tank Receives Hateful Global Swarming Propaganda from Lake Elsinore Sixth Graders Apparently Possessed by Antichrist-UN

Just over the hill in Lake Elsinore, a red glow on the horizon:

Link: Propaganda-driven kids attack think tank.

Students at a California public school have written a series of letters to Chicago's Heartland Institute, which works to discover and develop free-market solutions to society's problems, attacking its members for "destroying our planet" by refusing to endorse the politics of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" film

Australia's Gun Laws: Little Effect - TIME

Link: Australia's Gun Laws: Little Effect - TIME.

Sharing the shock of his people, the newly elected Prime Minister, John Howard — just two months into his eleven-and-a-half years in power — seized the chance to overhaul Australia's gun laws, trampling all opposition to make them among the strictest in the developed world. "I hate guns," he said at the time. "One of the things I don't admire about America is their slavish love of guns ... We do not want the American disease imported into Australia." Howard argued the tougher laws would make Australia safer. But 12 years on, new research suggests the government response to Port Arthur was a waste of public money and has made no difference to the country's gun-related death rates.

LaPierre: Chinese Olympic Shooters Promised Millions of Dollars if Victorious

Link (NRANews.com): Paying for the Gold.

Chinese state-run media have reported that a company that makes an alcoholic drink called baijiu have promised the team more than ten million dollars if they capture at least five medals. In a country where the average income is just over $2000 a year, that's quite a payday. Our own shooters don't stand to make millions if they bring home some gold, but they'll be fierce competitors nonetheless. They're representing the home of liberty and freedom, and they don't need to be bribed with the promise of riches to do their best.

Revelations 7:3 and Environmentalist Brainwashing

I'm no Bible scholar but I'll respond as best as I can to a some unfortunate brainwashing my daughter was just subjected to yesterday (Earth Day), relating to environmental issues like global warming, recycling, etc.  Such false propaganda should not be tolerated in this debate, and certainly should have no place in our Catholic schools.

She came home with a pictorial representation she was instructed to draw, depicting Revelations 7:3 "Hurt not the earth nor the sea nor the trees".  It is clear to me after some brief research that this was taken WAY out of context and that the command is not to us but to the "four angels" sent or allowed to wreak havoc and destruction.  The command is for them to delay destruction until Christians are "sealed."

So by definition, the command is not directed to Christians.

Obviously, waste is not good and pollution's negative externalities should be incorporated into a polluter's costs, but with all of the brainwashing apparently even in our Catholic schools kids can't even get good science on what "pollution" is - certainly, most readers of this blog would agree there is no significant anthropogenic global warming.

Link: CATHOLIC BIBLE: Apocalypse 7.

1 After these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that they should not blow upon the earth nor upon the sea nor on any tree. 2 And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the sign of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 Saying: Hurt not the earth nor the sea nor the trees, till we sign the servants of our God in their foreheads.

UN Rankings as Cockeyed as Brady Rankings: Violent Gun-Banning Britain Ranked More Stable than Peaceably Armed USA

US falls to #22 in UN study ranking stability of nations. Reason: proliferation of "small arms."  Britain, descending into violence due partly to its banning of guns, gets spot #7.

Link: Britain is world's 7th most stable and prosperous nation - Times Online.

Mr Le Mière said that the US had fallen down the scale, although it still scored an average of 93 out of 100, partly because of the proliferation of small arms owned by Americans and the threat to the population posed by the flow of drugs from across the Mexican border.

John Lott's Website: Scientists puzzled that Ocean is getting colder

Link: John Lott's Website: Scientists puzzled that Ocean is getting colder.

This headline from NPR is so amusing, "The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat." Well, one unconsidered option is that there is no global warming.

IOC: Don't Boycott Olympics Over Tibet

Link: IOC: Don't Boycott Olympics Over Tibet.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) - International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge poured cold water Saturday on calls for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing over China's crackdown in Tibet, saying it would only hurt athletes.

USEPA: New light bulbs can poison you

What if every American household mailed its CFL's to the local Congressman (unbroken, of course)?

Link (WND): New light bulbs can poison you.

WASHINGTON – Despite a congressional mandate banning the sale of common incandescent light bulbs by 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is warning that their compact fluorescent replacements are not safe to use everywhere.

Citigroup, Merrill Seek More Foreign Capital - WSJ.com

Link: Citigroup, Merrill Seek More Foreign Capital - WSJ.com.

Merrill is expected to get $3 billion to $4 billion, much of it from a Middle Eastern government investment fund. Citi could get as much as $10 billion, likely all from foreign governments. Such large investments would be the latest sign big banks are undergoing a rapid recapitalization to stabilize their shaky financial foundations. Already, foreign governments have invested about $27 billion in Merrill, Citi, UBS AG and Morgan Stanley.

Lott: "CREDIT CARD PROCESSING COMPANY REJECTS FIREARMS INDUSTRY"

Dr. Lott posts this NSSF warning: Link: John Lott's Website: "CREDIT CARD PROCESSING COMPANY REJECTS FIREARMS INDUSTRY".

Citi Merchant Services and First Data Corp. are refusing to process any credit card transactions between federally licensed firearms retailers, distributors and manufacturers -- a move which will severely limit available inventory of firearms and ammunition to military, law enforcement and law-abiding Americans.

This isn't all that surprising given the larger culture war, the constant norm changing efforts of the UN (including international gun control), globalization of commerce (especially banks).  Note how the banking industry has recently caved in lockstep, with only a few exceptions, to the homosexual lobby, worrying Scouting supporters.

Spider-Man Spins Web of Deceit for Icky UN

Link: WorldNetDaily: U.N. to use Spider-Man to 'sensitize' youth.

Tens of thousands of children in public schools across America soon could be getting a free comic book, one that extols the virtues of the United Nations and its agenda through the words of a kids' hero, Spider-Man.

WorldNetDaily: Hundreds of scientists reject global warming

It's surprising how fast this global warming fascism has taken hold.  When I think of global warming fascists, I think of the family down the street with kids in guvschool begging at our door for money to fight global warming.  I think of the Smith Barney presentation I was invited to hawking "green" industries and carbon credits without any skepticism raised by the affluent audience.  You have your own list I'm sure.   

Link: WorldNetDaily: Hundreds of scientists reject global warming.

A new U.S. Senate report documents hundreds of prominent scientists – experts in dozens of fields of study worldwide – who say global warming and cooling is a cycle of nature and cannot legitimately be connected to man's activities.

What perpetuates this insanity?  Maybe stuff like this email allegedly sent to harass a dissenting scientist:

At an earlier hearing, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., had confronted Stephen Johnson, administrator of the EPA, about a threatening e-mail from a group that includes the EPA. That e-mail from the American Council on Renewable Energy was addressed to Marlo Lewis, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and said, "It is my intention to destroy your career as a liar. If you produce one more editorial against climate change, I will launch a campaign against your professional integrity. I will call you a liar and charlatan to the Harvard community of which you and I are members. I will call you out as a man who has been bought by Corporate America. Go ahead, guy. Take me on." 

U.N. Finds Fraud, Mismanagement in Peacekeeping - washingtonpost.com

Fraud, corruption, mismanagement...when applied to UN "peacekeeping" these are euphemisms for genocide.

Link: U.N. Finds Fraud, Mismanagement in Peacekeeping - washingtonpost.com.

A U.N. task force has uncovered a pervasive pattern of corruption and mismanagement involving hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for fuel, food, construction and other materials and services used by U.N. peacekeeping operations, which are in the midst of their largest expansion in 15 years.

Shooting Rampage in Japan

Shotguns used were apparently issued under government permit.  Even in this island nation which has traded so much freedom for "security" and which leads the international gun ban movement, multiple victim shootings still occur.

Link: 'Sasebo gunman' found dead / Apparently commits suicide; longtime friend among victims : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri).

A man suspected of being responsible for a shooting rampage Friday that left two people dead and five injured at a sports club in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, was found dead Saturday morning....
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According to the police, Magome owned three shotguns and an air gun, for which he had received permits from the prefectural public safety committee. 

The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom | the Daily Mail

Link: The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of doom | the Daily Mail.

Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.

Thompson Letter Takes UN to Task for Proclaiming Self-Defense Not a Human Right

Link (Dave Kopel): The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1194117113.

Sen. Thompson's letter prompted criticism from Kevin Drum of the Washington Monthly and Stephen Benen, both of whom relied on a refutation written by UN Dispatch, a weblog funded by the UN Foundation. Today, the Knoxville News reports that it was UN Dispatch that got the facts wrong. The Special Rapporteur's Report which Thompson criticized (and which was adopted and endorsed by a submcommission of the UN Human Rights Council) quite explicitly says that personal self-defense is not a human right.

Save the Planet! Don't Have Kids?

Actually, this is a moderate position as it does not advocate genocide openly.

Link: Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly | the Daily Mail.

"My only frustration is that other people are unable to accept my decision. "When I tell people why I don't want children, they look at me as if I was planning to commit murder. "A woman who does not have maternal-feelings is seen as some sort of anomaly. "And a woman like me, who is not having children in order to save the planet, is considered barking mad. [Arf! - Ed.]

Anti-Gun French Prez Sarkozy is No American-lover

Sarkozy is being sold to us as pro-American but keep in mind he has econut views on global warming, and most importantly, he is extremely anti-gun.  Saw a quote to this effect in Washington Times but the article disappeared before I could post it.  Found this quote elsewhere:

Link: Anti-gun French presidential canidate (hijacked from THR) [Archive] - Calguns.net.

"I would like to say one thing, in what is my conception of the Republic, security is the responsibility of the State, I am against militias, I am against the private ownership of firearms, and I’m trying to make you think about that. If you are assaulted by an armed burglar, he’ll use his weapon more effectively than you anyway so you’re risking your life. If the criminal is not armed and you are and you shoot, your life will be ruined, because killing someone over a theft is not in line with the republican values that are mine. The private ownership of firearms is dangerous. I understand your exasperation for having been burglarized two times, I understand the fear that your wife and daughter may have but the answer is in the efficiency of the police and the efficiency of the judiciary process, the answer is not in having guns at home."

Scouting Supporters Worried After Banking Industry Caves to Homosexual Lobby

The “Human Rights Campaign” has published its 2008 Corporate Equality Index, which rates companies on their GLBT workplace policies, and supporters of the Boy Scouts of America (an organization I consider essential to preserving gun culture and other values defining America) look nervously at the speed at which the banking and financial industry has apparently caved to pressure from the homosexual lobby.

Link: HRC | New Report Finds Unprecedented Growth in Employer Policies for Gay and Transgender Workers.

The banking and financial services industry has 32 companies with 100 percent, more than any other industry. While there are 30 law firms with the top rating, up from 12 last year.

Is your bank on the list?  View a .pdf snapshot of the ranking as it pertains to the banking and financial industry.

Rating criteria located here ("perfect" score 100).

WorldNetDaily: Will secret clubs pick next prez?

Link: WorldNetDaily: Will secret clubs pick next prez?.

According to a variety of sources, the following presidential candidates are either members of one of the groups or have strong ties: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Fred Thompson, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson. Mike Huckabee, though not a member, spoke to the CFR in September. Since then, his political star has risen to the point that he has become a top-tier candidate.

Provision to Prevent Infringement of Second Amendment in National Heritage Areas

Link: Representative Rob Bishop.

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed an amendment sponsored by Congressman Rob Bishop that will ensure there will be no federal infringement of Second Amendment rights on certain public lands. The provision, which came in the form of the Republican Motion to Recommit on H.R. 1483, a bill to expand and create certain National Heritage Areas, stipulates that all designated lands within these areas would be exclusively governed by state and local laws regarding hunting, fishing, and the possession or use of a weapon, trap, or net.

Latest on UN Attempt to Ban Our Guns

The campaign is aimed at passing an arms trade treaty as part of a process that began in the U.N. General Assembly last year when 153 countries voted in favor, 24 abstained and only the United States voted against starting work on one.
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"The (treaty) is not about civilian possession as some would have you believe," he said.

Link: News | Africa - Reuters.com.

Oh really?  One of the forces behind the treaty is Rebecca Peters.  See what she has to say in this video of her debate with Wayne LaPierre:

So THAT'S Why All Those People Are Dying...

The appropriately-named UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon (Korean for "lunatic gun ban") says that climate change is behind the killing in Darfur.

Given the conclusively demonstrable link between gun bans and genocide in the last century; the UN's sickening support of genocide in recent years; and its current efforts toward a global gun ban, isn't this statement of Ban's just a tad insulting to the victims?

(Maybe this is just another test, in a long series of tests, to see how much lunacy we are willing to put up with?)

I pray for climate change in New York.

Bush Decree Claims Extraordinary Emergency Powers; Contingency Contract for Detention Facilities

Link: Emergency Detention Plan: "This way to the camps!" (WND):

Halliburton's former engineering and construction subsidiary has a contingency contract with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.

As Corsi reported last week, President Bush recently signed a little-reported National Security and Homeland Security Directive granting extraordinary powers to the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight.
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The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy or government functions."

UN troops traded guns for gold with militias

Link: UN troops traded guns for gold with militias (Independent.co.uk):

Scandal is engulfing the United Nations once again after allegations that peacekeepers stationed in Congo traded guns for gold with militia groups that they were meant to be disarming. Meanwhile, a trial got under way in New York of a former UN official accused of taking bribes. 

Outbreak of Violent Crime Unnerves Japan

Link: Outbreak of Violent Crime Unnerves Japan.

An outbreak of violent crime this week has triggered soul-searching and outrage in Japan, a country that has long prided itself on its safe streets and tight communal bonds.

The interesting thing about this is that Japan is one of the few countries left that both tightly control guns and have a reputation for low incidence of violent crime.  (Britain and Australia's sharp rise in violent crime since recent gun control in those countries has been well-documented.)  Japan has even led the charge for international gun control through the UN, and has offered itself as exemplary that if you give up your civil liberties, as they do there, at least you can reduce violent crime.  Well, apparently NOT, but according to the article they don't seem to get it and are pushing for even more gun control although that's hard to conceive.

Czech prez: Environmentalism is new communism

Link: WorldNetDaily: Czech prez: Environmentalism is new communism.

"As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants," said Klaus, responding to questions posed by the two lawmakers. "Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."

Vatican Targets Pacifism

Link: Pope is warned of a green Antichrist-News-World-Europe-TimesOnline.

An arch-conservative cardinal chosen by the Pope to deliver this year’s Lenten meditations to the Vatican hierarchy has caused consternation by giving warning of an Antichrist who is “a pacifist, ecologist and ecumenist”.

For a detailed look at what some consider the Antichrist, read my book review of Nathan Tabor's "The Beast on the East River: The UN Threat to America's Sovereignty and Security" - or better yet, buy the book.

UN Gun Control Leads to More Genocide in Uganda

Link: Reason Magazine - Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People.

This time, the pretext for the "disarmament" of the Karamojong is United Nations gun control. The Ugandan military is trying to round up every last firearm in Karamoja, supposedly for the Karamojong's own good.

Czech Pres. Calls Global Warming a 'Myth' - Questions Gore's Sanity

Link to transcript: DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2007®:

Environmentalism as a metaphysical ideology and as a worldview has absolutely nothing to do with natural sciences or with the climate. Sadly, it has nothing to do with social sciences either. Still, it is becoming fashionable and this fact scares me.

Refreshing to see the media dealt with so effectively.  There is hope.

BOOK REVIEW: Nathan Tabor's "Beast on the East River" ... Should we tame it? cage it? kill it?

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I just finished reading a GREAT new book: The Beast on the East River: The UN Threat to America’s Sovereignty and Security, by Nathan Tabor (published by Nelson Current). 

This is a book that will change you.  For example, I now believe in black helicopters.

From NRAnews.com and Wayne LaPierre’s recent book, “The Global War on Your Guns” (same publisher), and in particular from watching the televised debate between Wayne LaPierre and Rebecca Peters of IANSA, I already appreciated the emerging threat the UN poses to gunowners.

But black helicopters?  No one wants to be accused of “black helicopter thinking!”  That implies a belief that globalists plot to impose one-world government, including the military apparatus necessary for such government.

Well, it turns out I am in very good company as a “black helicopter thinker.”  Walter Cronkite (“America’s anchorman,” the “most trusted man in America”) went on record advocating world government (including requisite police and standing army) while at the UN accepting an award from the World Federalist Association in 1999.  Cronkite does not merely believe such globalists exist; he appears to actually be one, which is news to a lot of us who grew up with him “objectively” covering our news.

But does a force of “black helicopters” (permanent UN military force) actually exist beyond the planning stage? 

Yes, that’s the way it is, according to Nathan Tabor’s seismically significant book.  The Multinational Stand-by High Readiness Brigade for United Nations Operations (SHIRBRIG), the first permanent UN military force in history, was mobilized secretly in 1997 and kept quiet until media learned of a secret $200,000 donation made as “backdoor support” by the US State Department.  Countries initially pledging to send troops included Canada, Denmark, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Sweden.  Operational headquarters were established in Copenhagen.  SHIRBRIG became fully operational in 2000 with about 5000 troops, and a potential pool of 147,500 troops pledged from 88 countries.  Both Clinton and the UN denied there was any standing army.  While the denial was perhaps technically correct, SHIRBRIG was at least the functional equivalent of a standing army since all command and control systems and logistical infrastructure were in place and the troops needed to be merely “plugged in.”

Moreover, new plans supported by Bush will create a permanent UN force of 75,000 in Africa.

The Beast on the East River: The UN Threat to America’s Sovereignty and Security is a well-researched primer on UN organizational structure and its most nefarious activities.  It makes a very complicated subject understandable.  The book is a good read and an essential resource for any patriot’s library.  No matter what your main issue is, the nonsense (norm changing) side of it is probably being pushed by the UN or affiliated “transnationalists.”  Things make a lot more sense after reading this book.

The only improvement I would make would be the cover graphics.  While the existing blue scheme with UN logo is attractive and goes nicely with the title of the book, for a future printing I’d suggest adding a relevant illustration such as one recently drawn by my daughter, World Examiner cartoonist Ayn C. Duringer.  Maybe we could work out something.

A few highlights of what is documented in The Beast:

• Rape and murder of women and children, prostitution rings, human trafficking, and other atrocities, almost everywhere UN peacekeepers operate.
• Shocking UN facilitation of genocide of 800,000 Tutsis (mostly by clubs and machetes) in Rwanda; sale of arms to Hutus by Egypt’s foreign minister under Boutros-Ghali; elevation of Boutros-Ghali to UN Secretary-General; urgent cable from UN Force Commander in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire, requesting permission to defend Tutsis who sought refuge in UN compounds; denial by then-head of UN peacekeeping operations Kofi Annan despite capability to defend easily with troops in place; Kofi Annan’s promotion to UN Secretary-General.

Law would make Minutemen guilty of 'domestic terrorism'

Link: WorldNetDaily: Law would make Minutemen guilty of 'domestic terrorism'.

A. An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon.

You mean, like this?  The groups I participated in were well armed (especially during the July '05 incident) but there was a third group (Friends of the Border Patrol) I did not participate with because that group's rules limited carry to LEO's only.  Predictably, that group ended up being assaulted by a mob, resulting in injuries and theft of membership lists, etc.  The border is a dangerous place.  (And as jimmyb of Conservative UAW Guy reminds us: free speech isn't free.)

UN Piecemakers Giving Feud Aid: Fresh Stench over French Complicity in Rwanda Genocide

Link: WorldNetDaily: French linked to Rwanda slaughter. Excerpt:

Fearing a loss of influence in the region, France – with the knowledge of the U.S. – helped rekindle the civil war in Rwanda that led to the massacre of more than 1 million people in 1994, according to a growing body of evidence.

I'll have more on the Dallaire cable in a couple of book reviews I hope to finish shortly.

Schwarzenegger compares California to Athens and Sparta; says CA should lead ze vurldt

Link: Schwarzenegger: Calif. is 'nation-state' leading world | Politics News | Reuters.com.

"We are the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta. California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta," Schwarzenegger, who played Hercules in his first film role, told legislators at the capitol. "Not only can we lead California into the future ... we can show the nation and the world how to get there."

Athens was a democracy; California has elections but seats in the legislature never change hands (seats super-safe due to bi-partisan redistricting).  Sparta?  About the only thing we have in common with Sparta is destruction of the family.

What are we?  Along with the rest of America, we are a highly visible experiment in freedom, a "City upon a hill."  Massachusetts Bay Colony Guv John Winthrop wrote in 1630:

For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world.

There's no spendthrift clause protecting this trust corpus.  It's ours to blow or pass on, if we can keep it.  All eyes are watching, and our descendants will curse us if we lose what is so costly to replace.

UN staff accused of raping children in Sudan

Link: Telegraph | News | UN staff accused of raping children in Sudan. Excerpt:

Members of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in southern Sudan are facing allegations of raping and abusing children as young as 12, The Daily Telegraph reported today.

Not that this is surprising.  Wherever the UN promises peace or food, a terrible price must be paid.

VOA Sounds Like Voice of the UN

Link: VOA News - Study: Illegal Small Arms Trade Fueling African Conflicts. Excerpt:

The United Nations estimates small arms cause more than 1,300 deaths every day. At least 500,000 people are killed by them every year. Since small arms are cheap and easy to move, the trade in these weapons is extremely difficult to trace or monitor.

The linked site claims to be the Voice of America, but sounds more like the Voice of UN Dictators trying to get away with genocide by blaming guns imported for defense.  I wonder if Bush has as little control over VOA as he apparently has over the FAA.  If he had control, he would surely do something about this, wouldn't he?

Universal Debate for a Universal Right

Link: Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter. Excerpt:

The debate continues. It doesn’t seem to matter if it is about allowing the residents of Washington, DC, to have loaded guns in their homes for defense against the predatory criminals who prey on everyone in the national capital, or about the people in some foreign country.

Bring it on, UN.  This is a debate you will lose, as long as the people have a say.  (Remember Brazil?)

Can small arms be a check on government?

Link: The Volokh Conspiracy - James Madison, Gun Nut:#171608.  Excerpt from an anonymous comment on Volokh Conspiracy, responding to a contention that small arms could not effectively check the power of a better-armed government:

Small arms such as a single-shot deringer, a semi-automatic pistol, .22 revolver, a bolt action rifle, a modern military type rifle, heck, couldn't even a simple knife be considered a potential check on government, or at least on those who govern? Looking at history it would appear to me that small arms are quite capable of being a “check” on those who govern.

Mass Permit Revocation and Firearm Confiscation in Indonesia

Link: The Jakarta Post - Police civilian gun crackdown praised. Excerpt:

"Civilians choose to own guns because they are concerned about deteriorating security conditions. The police should improve security while revoking licenses for firearm ownership," he told journalists in Jakarta.

Immigration Debate at Church

Here is a recap of the immigration debate our parish had last Thursday:

Scotsman.com News - International - Ukraine remembers 10 million killed by Stalin's famine

Link: Scotsman.com News - International - Ukraine remembers 10 million killed by Stalin's famine.

This is not something academics and journalists generally like to discuss, since they were complicit or at least remained silent as it happened.

Bush accepts Bolton's U.N. resignation - Yahoo! News

Link: Bush accepts Bolton's U.N. resignation - Yahoo! News.

This is no time to be giving the UN free reign.

ABC News: Kalashnikov -- The Bio of the Big Gun - AK-47 Inventor Adds Voice to U.N. Effort to Curb Small Arms Trade

Link: ABC News: Kalashnikov -- The Bio of the Big Gun.

"We worked for a socialist society, for the good of the people, which I never regret."

Doesn't seem like this guy is much of a freedom fighter.

"Gun Control: Does the United Nations Support Liberty?" by Howard Nemerov

Link: "Gun Control: Does the United Nations Support Liberty?" by Howard Nemerov.  Excerpt:

"By cross-indexing ''Freedom in the World'' with the list of U.N. member states, we find that only 46% of U.N. members are considered free countries."

Last summer we toured the UN building and when the guide started spouting off about the majority vote process in the General Assembly, I asked the poor girl how many of the UN members were dictatorships.  This column by Howard Nemerov tackles that issue from a number of angles.

Car-jackers put gun to head of 8-year-old boy | UK | Reuters.co.uk

Link: Car-jackers put gun to head of 8-year-old boy | UK | Reuters.co.uk. Excerpt:

A gang of car thieves who put a gun to the head of an 8-year-old boy as they stole his mother's BMW in Cheadle, Cheshire were being hunted by police on Tuesday.

Must be tough for parents in the UK, a socialist utopia where handguns have been banned since 1997.