Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily
While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research. Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the Department of Defense.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While no one – in or out of government – tracks traffic all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens

Where are More Americans dying everday- Wash DC or Iraq?
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the U.S. involvement in Iraq, here's a sobering statistic:
There has been a monthly average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2,112 deaths. That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.The firearm death rate in Washington D.C. is 80.6 per 100,000 persons for the same period.That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. Capital than you are in Iraq.Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington

Does anyone find this hypocritical?

Yoko Ono, widow of slain Beatle John Lennon, issued a plea for forgiveness to the world's suffering people in a full-page notice in yesterday's New York Times titled "Forgive us."
Noting that the Dec. 8 anniversary of her husband's murder was approaching, Ono said she wanted to send a message this year.
Directing her words to "people who have lost loved ones without cause," to "the soldiers of all countries and of all centuries," to civilians who were injured or killed and to "people who have been abused or tortured," Ono wrote, "Know that your loss is our loss . . . Know that the burden is ours," and pleaded, "Forgive us."

Yoko Ono has previously stated that she HAS NOT FORGIVEN Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman.

This news item deserves a special note:

Corzine administration kills plan for bear hunt
Policy urges use of 'nonlethal tools' including educating residents, controlling garbage
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Star-Ledger Staff
The Corzine administration yesterday issued its final ruling rejecting this year's bear hunt, making it impossible to hold one unless courts intervene and reverse the decision.
In a seven-page letter to the state Fish and Game Council, Environmental Protection Commis sioner Lisa Jackson withdrew the approval for a hunt given by her predecessor, Bradley Campbell, be cause "nonlethal tools" have not been used to control the bear population in northwestern New Jersey.

Is there any hope or expectation that some court in New Jersey wouldn't want to interfere in this clearly political process with its own dictate from the bench? Gov Corzine, even if you don't agree with the decision as I don't, is entirely within his constitutional and executive right to order no bear hunting. The courts should have no role here at all...as hard as that is for lawyers to understand.

Rosie O'Donnell's "Gun Control"

There are many remote areas of the country that do not have adequate law enforcement personnel, and citizens are required to defend themselves. Yet a former congressman, Major Owens, tried to pass a resolution dissolving the Second Amendment. Gun control advocates like Rosie O'Donnell, who by the way hypocritically makes sure her bodyguards are armed, said on a recent "View" telecast that the right to bear arms "is not really a right."
Well, let's just clarify that, Rosie.

The Second Amendment reads:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

What many control advocates forget is that comma after the word state. They would like us to think that it refers only to a militia. The comma makes it very clear that it is the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

It certainly was the right of Margaret Johnson to bear arms in September, when a mugger tried to rob the wheelchair-bound Harlem resident. She drew the pistol she was carrying and shot him in his elbow. Ms. Johnson, who has a gun carry permit, was on her way to a shooting range when she was attacked. Statistics from the National Safety Council show that firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.

Armed vs. Unarmed Cities
D.C. is among the major U.S. cities with the highest percentage of people being killed by firearms, despite having one of the strictest gun-control laws in the country. A recent Metropolitan Police Department report on homicides from 2001 to 2005 states that 901 of 1,126 homicide victims, or about 80 percent, were fatally shot. "It's a problem," Chief Charles H. Ramsey said. "It may be something that's with us for a while." Firearms last year alone were used to commit 157 of the District's 196 homicides, or about 80 percent. That percentage has remained relatively consistent since 2001, when a five-year low of 78.4 percent of homicides were committed using guns. FBI crime statistics for 2005 show 10,100 of the country's 14,860 homicide victims, or 68 percent, were killed by guns. The District's percentage of gun homicides is comparable to those in other big cities, according to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. In 2004, the last year for which comprehensive statistics were available, the 79.3 percent of homicides involving guns in the District was higher than the 61.1 percent in New York. Chicago reported 75.2 percent, and Baltimore had 77.5 percent. Atlanta had a significantly lower percentage of gun homicides than the District, 73.2 percent, despite less-restrictive gun laws. In Georgia, gun owners are not required to obtain a license or a permit, there is no waiting period to buy a handgun and no background check for second-party sales

The Pelosi Affair

Pelosi is now saying that she is willing to work with the Republicans in a "bipartisan manner". Given that she announced on "60 Minutes" two Sundays ago that "...the Republican Party is a criminal enterprise", doesn't that make her a coconspirator?

Whatever Happened to the USA Being a Republic?

The Founders of the US Constitution were very clear: the American citizenry should not directly decide how to handle the questions facing the country; the American citizenry should choose who decides by electing representatives.

This election posed no less than 205 questions on 37 state ballots. The country is becoming a land of “mob rule” and this is a tragedy. The United States is not a pure democracy but rather a representative republic. A republican form of government is where citizens elect representatives who will then pass the laws by which we are to be governed. In forming our republic the framers of the Constitution cited nearly 15,000 references.

California led the list with 37 questions followed by Colorado (28), Washington (28) and in 4th place was Arizona with 25 questions. I suppose voters in those states reviewed all the arguments, researched the subject matter thoroughly? If the country keeps this up, soon voting is going to feel like one is taking a SAT test.

Our country needs responsible representatives and not ones deflecting the tough and complicated questions of the day onto the public via these ballot initiatives.

States that “Tested” Their Voters



“We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth …For my part, whatever anguish of the spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to prepare for it.”- Patrick Henry cautioned

What’s in a Grade?

We remember a rather not-so-important moment in the run up to the 2000 election. The New Yorker, not the friendliest venue for the future president, made Bush's grades public in 1999. He had a cumulative grade of 77 at Yale, very much a "gentleman's C."

Bush made a joke out of it. Speaking to Yale's graduating class of 2001, the newly inaugurated president said, "To those of you who've received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done, and to the C students, I say you can be president of the United States." Senator John Kerry's grades did not become public in the campaign of 2004. Kerry OK'd the release of his full file to lThe Boston Globe not until ast year. While the file contained nothing new about his Navy service, it did contain his Yale transcript.

Kerry, it turns out, had a cumulative grade of 76

This story falls in the realm of the unbelievable....

New York Plans to Make Gender Personal Choice
Separating anatomy from what it means to be a man or a woman, New York City is moving forward with a plan to let people alter the sex on their birth certificate even if they have not had sex-change surgery.
Under the rule being considered by the city’s Board of Health, which is likely to be adopted soon, people born in the city would be able to change the documented sex on their birth certificates by providing affidavits from a doctor and a mental health professional laying out why their patients should be considered members of the opposite sex, and asserting that their proposed change would be permanent.
Applicants would have to have changed their name and shown that they had lived in their adopted gender for at least two years, but there would be no explicit medical requirements.
“Surgery versus nonsurgery can be arbitrary,” said Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner. “Somebody with a beard may have had breast-implant surgery. It’s the permanence of the transition that matters most.”
If approved, the new rule would put New York at the forefront of efforts to redefine gender. A handful of states do not require surgery for such birth certificate changes, but in some of those cases patients are still not allowed to make the change without showing a physiological shift to the opposite gender.

Tomorrow’s Election…………. US voters will be electing 33 senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives
Since 1860 there have been five congressional elections, like this one, held and in every one the president’s party loss a considerable number of seats (35 in the House on average) – a “drubbing” or a “wave” as they say in Wash DC.

Comments From the Future House Leaders…
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says “we win, we get subpoena power” (implying that the Dems will start hearings into the Bush admin)
Nancy Pelosi says the Republican Party is a “criminal enterprise”

Did You Know?
Pelosi will arguably be a very strong House Leader…since becoming Dem Leader she has raised more than $100mln for her colleagues. She has unified a fractious party previously, with House Democrats voting for the majority of their party 88% of the time in 2005- the highest total since records were kept starting in 1956.

Rep John Conyers (D-MI), future head of the House Judiciary Committee, accuses the Bush admin of “committing no less than 26 crimes;
Rep Charles Rangel (D-NY) (would be the Chairman of the all-powerful House Ways & Means) says “..you must pay for the war, don’t you?” (Implying that the new Democratic controlled congress or House will do what it can to pull funding for the Iraq war. There are 24 Democrats currently publicly calling for cutting off funding for the Iraq war right now.

Democrats vow to flex their subpoena and investigative muscles if elected to lead Congress next month and will take on President Bush's use of wiretaps.
"We have not had significant issues addressed from an oversight standpoint -- we've not issued one subpoena," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who as ranking member of the House Homeland Security Department is in line to lead the panel.

Assume major Democratic gains between 20 to 25 House seats, and four to six Senate seats. The House goes Democratic for the first time in 12 years. The Senate likely stays Republican, but by such an small margin that there is no governing majority.
Given the comments from the new leaders-to-be, it would appear that they are obliged to hold hearings and investigations.
We would see Boeing (BA) given our intell on BA’s participation in the “Rendition” program – they are called “Pentagon’s travel agent” inside the CIA. Other co’s at risk include, but not limited to, EASI, HAL (selling KBR at an opportune time), the rest of the defense establishment.
Two stocks that we would have prior to 2006 considered to be at risk : Orbital (ORB) and GenCorp (GY). However, given the summer missile firings from North Korea, Iran, a missile defense system – albeit first generation with all the problems associated with being “First G” is better than nothing. SO missile defense is most likely safe.

Other less-than-popularly known co’s that would be at risk: US’ Blackwater Security Consulting who’s primary asset pre-Iraq war was a shooting range in North Carolina now has annual revs of $750mln. UK’s Aegis Defense Services was founded in 2002, two years later won a $500mln contract in Iraq.

What About Taxes?
A USA Today/Gallup Poll reported last week that 63 percent of Americans surveyed think Democrats are likely to "increase federal income taxes" if they win control of Congress -- though 74 percent said they disapprove of it

Did You Know?
The average loss for a second-term presidency’s party in its sixth year has been 29 House seats and six Senate seats. If you go back to Franklin Roosevelt’s second term, the House loss average jumps to 35. Thus a 25/6 House/Senate loss would be about (and slightly below) the historical average.

In his sixth year, the now-sainted Ronald Reagan lost eight Senate seats that gave the chamber back to Democratic control. That election was swayed by no wars, no weekly casualty figures, no major scandals. The first inkling of the Iran-Contra scandal broke on the morning after the election.

“Military” Papers Editors Call For Rumsfeld to Resign
It makes for powerful imagery – an editorial appearing in the Army Times, the Navy Times, the Marine Times and the Air Force Times calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Many assume these publications are official or semi-official periodicals of the military branches, while they are actually under the same ownership as USA Today and under the management of an editor who has had his share of run-ins with the U.S. military in the past.
Shortly after Gannett bought the papers in 1997, the media giant installed as editor Robert Hodierne. He is best known for teaming up in 1969 with then-Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett in Vietnam to bring attention to a small group of American soldiers who refused to fight.

Kerry Wasn’t Joking
The media seems to have taken John Kerry’s explanation that he “botched a joke” when he insulted the men and women of the US military. Kerry even went on to say that he would “never insult the military”. Well, his record shows he wasn’t joking when he made similar comments in 1972. He said the military “created a monster” in the form of violence-prone American soldiers and recounted that soldiers had “raped, cut of ears, cut of heads” of Vietnamese citizens and rampaging across Vietnamese villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan”.

Here is the important point: he also qualified these inflammatory comments by saying the acts “were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis”. He thus accused the general military of crimes of the few.

Or more recently When an elderly Democratic voter in the audience accused Vice President Dick Cheney of murdering women and children in Iraq in 2004, for the sake of oil profits, Kerry responded by saying, "I know exactly where you're coming from."

I’ll go out on a limb here and say that a military person would take those comments as an insult.
So obviously Kerry has, can and will insult our military.

As for the intelligence of the US military, during a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes." "I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown," Kerry wrote. Kerry made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group which are very similar to his comments he made on Monday which he called a “botched joke”. There can be no doubt that John Kerry still believes the US military of 2006 is the same one of 1972.

At least John Kerry didn't insult every American's intelligence by trying to claim that he was joking (or "botched a joke" as it were) in 1972.

The 1972 questionnaire is available for all to read here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/wdc/documents/kerry_war.pdfJohn Kerry also wrote a book in 1971 titled “The New Soldier” which makes similar claims.

Kerry's '72 Army Comments Mirror Latest
During a Vietnam-era run for Congress three decades ago, John Kerry said he opposed a volunteer Army (what we currently have) because it would be dominated by the underprivileged, be less accountable and be more prone to "the perpetuation of war crimes."
Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran who turned against the war, made the observations in answers to a 1972 candidate questionnaire from a Massachusetts peace group.
At least, John Kerry never tried to claim that he was joking (or "botched a joke"as it were) in 1972