Once upon a time there was a country called America. In this country, there was pride in self and pride in country. Everyone was expected to follow the laws and be willing to value and protect their country. Unfortunately, that is not this time. Now we are in a time of hate and political correctness, and God forbid we should have a need for everyone to rally to their country’s defense at this time.

Now we are in a period of self-gratification and condemnation of anything that displeases us. For instance, now we have politicians that are so much smarter than President Bush, his cabinet, and his complete group of advisers, or at least that’s what they think. A majority of the House and Senate, prior to the Iraq war, were espousing the act of war against Sadaam’s regime. When it didn’t turn out well, now it’s Bush’s fault. Had the insurgency not been there and their search for democracy had been successful, they would’ve been patting each other on the backs, and Bush wouldn’t have been given any credit.

Other instances… the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma and the first attempt to bring down the World Trade Center, both during the Clinton Administration and were just acts of sabotage. Since the planes flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, they say it was done by our own government - Bush’s fault. Has anyone ever wondered if Pockets Berger took documents showing that the Clinton Administration had ADVANCE WARNING of this attack coming? Does anyone have any faith or confidence in the 9/11 commission report? Ain’t that a shame.

Now we have a flurry of action being taken about immigration. There are laws on the books that if they were enforced, would take care of this problem. No administration has ever seriously given any effort to correct the illegal immigration problems. President Reagan gave up, capitulated, and gave amnesty. Since then, no President has bothered to do anything about immigration. All that needs to be done is enforce the laws. It seems that anyone who makes a real effort to solve these problems has a U.S. Attorney named Johnny Sutton put them in jail. The head of the Immigration Department should be replaced by someone who will carry out the laws, have an investigator weed out the bribe takers, and make unannounced raids on chicken and other meat processing plants, as well as big building contractors - heavily fine the people who are hiring the illegals, and give them some jail time. Take the illegals on buses to the Mexican border as soon as they are picked up. Let’s face it, giving jail time to the people who hire illegals and flaunting this in the news media constantly will soon take care of the problem. One other way would be to deport the complete family of any immigrant with fake papers to show they are legal for hire.

In my opinion, President Bush’s pushing of new immigration laws is much ado about nothing. In fact, if the sixty percent of law enforcement who fail to do their jobs or take steps to undermine same would start doing their jobs correctly, we would have a much better country - this includes cops, judges, district attorneys, and all manner of enforcement people from other government departments.

Now it’s not only Jack Murtha who wants to run the Military, it’s also Nancy Pelosi, who is taking over as Secretary of State. Congress seems to think that the President is a post (like royalty) that has no powers. The last President that thought he was royalty was Clinton, and there were plenty of idiots willing to carry out this charade. One of the Presidents the Democrats look back on with pride, Thomas Jefferson, sent troops to war without conferring with Congress. This man they confer such wisdom, peace, and harmony on, was the man who sent the Marines into Tripoli in 1804 and gave this nation it’s Military power status. Now the Democrats want Presidents only to project peace, harmony, and willing to get along with any radical out there - somewhat as Clinton did.

This current hubbub about global warming reminds me of an incident when I was very young. My father was a share cropper with eventually eight children. At the time this happened, there were only seven, and two of them were babies, and this didn’t apply to them. The other five of us were to go on an egg hunt on Easter morning, where there was to be all kinds of candy and sweets. How we looked forward to it, as we never had candy and very little of anything sweet. Easter morning, we awoke to six inches of snow on the ground, and the Easter egg hunt had been cancelled. This was in the 30s during the Depression, and anyone who has ever gone hungry and did without knows how we all felt. Anyhow, here’s the kicker… at that time, the scientists were talking about the coming ice age. That Sunday, we really believed it!