THIS STORY EXEMPLIFIES GUN CONTROL AS IT SHOULD BE.
Shooting in Butte, Montana
Shotgun preteen vs. illegal alien Home Invaders Butte , Montana November 5, 2006

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home.
It seems the two crooks never learned two things : they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine.

Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.
When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.

Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news....

Now that is Gun Control

Thought for the day: Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist"

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THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER:

TWO VERSIONS OF THE SAME FABLE

TRADITIONAL VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself.

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer! The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008.
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An atheist science and philosophy professor begins each school year with
a lecture to the students on 'the problem science has with religion.'
 He scan his class, requests a new student to stand, then asks:
'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'
.
'Yes sir,' the student replies.
.
'So you believe in God?'
.
'Absolutely.'
.
'Is God good?'
.
'Sure! God's good.'
.
'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'
.
'Yes.'
.
'Are you good or evil?'
.
'The Bible says I'm evil.'
.
The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible!'  Then he says:
 'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and
you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'
.
'Yes sir, I would.'
.
'So you're good...!'
.
'I wouldn't say that.'
.
'But why not say that? You'd help a sick or maimed person if you could.
Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't.'
.
The student doesn't answer.  The professor continues. 'He doesn't,
does He? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he
prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good?  Can you answer
that one?'
.
The student remains silent.
.
'No, you can't, can you?' the professor says. He then takes a sip of
water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.
.
'Let's start again, young fella. Is God good?'
.
'Er...yes,' the student says.
.
'Is Satan good?'
.
The student doesn't hesitate on this one.
.
'No.'
.
'Where does Satan come from?'
.
The student falters. 'From God'
.
'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, is there evil in this
world?'
.
'Yes, sir.'
.
'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'
.
'Yes.'
.
'So who created evil?' The professor continues, 'If God created
everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to
the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil.'
.
The student does not answer, so the professor continues, 'Is there
sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness?  Do they exist in this world?'
.
The student squirms on his feet. 'Yes.'
.
'So who created them?'
.
No answer, so the professor repeats his question. 'Who created them?'
 The class is mesmerized.  Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace
in front of the classroom.  'Tell me,' he asks another student. 'Do
you believe in Jesus Christ, son?'
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The student's voice cracks in reply. 'Yes, professor, I do.'
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The old man observes. 'Science says you have five senses you use to
identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'
.
'No sir. I've never seen Him.'
.
'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'
.
'No, sir, I have not.'
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'Have you ever felt your Jesus, or tasted or smelt your Jesus?  Have
you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that
matter?'
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'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'
.
'Yet you still believe in him?'
.
'Yes.'
.
'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol,
science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?'
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'Nothing, I only have my faith.' The student replies.
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'Ah Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem science
has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.'
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The student stands quietly for a moment, then asks a question of His
own.
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'Professor, is there such thing as heat?'
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'Yes,' the professor replies. 'There's heat.'
.
'And is there such a thing as cold?'
.
'Yes, son, there's cold too.'
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'No sir, there isn't.'
.
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room
becomes very quiet. The student explains. 'We can have lots of heat,
even  super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, or little
heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'. We have 458
degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after
that. If there was such thing as cold we would be able to go colder than
the lowest -458 degrees.'
.
'Every object or body is susceptible to being studied when it transmits
energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.
Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold
is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat.  We cannot
measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is
energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.'
.
There is silence across the room. A pen drops and sounds like a hammer.
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'What about darkness, professor', the student continues.  'Is there
such a thing as darkness?'
.
'Yes,' the professor replies. 'What is night if it isn't darkness?'
.
'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence
of something. We can have low light, normal light, bright light,
flashing light, but if there is no light, it's called darkness, isn't
it? That's the meaning we use to define the word.'
'In reality, darkness is not a thing. If it were, you would be able to
make darkness darker, wouldn't you?'
.
The professor smiles at the student in front of him, and thinks this
will be a good semester. Then he says. 'So what point are you making,
young man?'
.
'Professor, my point is that science says that if the philosophical
premise is flawed to start with, then the conclusion will also be
flawed.'
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The professor's face shows surprise.
.
'Flawed? Can you explain how?'
.
'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains. 'You
argue that there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad
God. You present the concept of God as something finite, something we
can measure.  Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses
electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully
understood either one.'
.
'To view death as the opposite of life is to say it has essence, or
substance. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.'
.
The student continues.  'Do you teach your students that they evolved
from a monkey?'
.
'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man,
yes, of course I do.' The professor says.
.
'Have you observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'  The student
asks.
.
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes
where the argument is going.  A very good semester, indeed, he thinks.
.
The student continues. 'Since no one has ever observed the process of
evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going
endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not now being
less a scientist and more a preacher?'
.
The class is in an uproar. The student waits until the commotion
subsides.
.
'In reference to the point you were making earlier to the other student,
let me give you an example of what I mean.'
.
The student looks around the room. 'Is there anyone in the class who has
ever seen the professor's brain?'  The class breaks out into laughter.
.
'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the
professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain? No one
appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of
empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no
brain, with all due respect, sir.'
.
'So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures,
sir?'
.
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his
face unreadable.
Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. 'I guess
you'll have to take them on faith.'
.
'So you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with
life,' the student states, and then asks.  'Sir, is there such a thing
as evil?'
.
With less certainty, the professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We
see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man.
It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.
These manifestations are nothing else but evil.'
.
To this the student replies, 'Evil does not exist unto itself.  Evil
is simply the absence of God.  It is just like darkness and cold, a
word that man has created to describe the absence of God.  God did not
create evil.  Evil is the result of what happens when man does not
have God's love present in his heart.  It's like the cold that comes
when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no
light.'
.
The professor sat down.
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The Pope and Hillary Rodham Clinton are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd.

'Her Majesty' and His Holiness, however, have seen it all before, so to make it a little more interesting, the senator says to the Pope, "Did you know that with just one little wave of my hand I can make every Democrat in the crowd go wild?"

He doubts it, so she shows him. Sure enough, the wave elicits rapture and cheering from
every Democrat in the crowd. Gradually, the cheering subsides.

The Pope, not wanting to be out done by such a level of arrogance, considers what he could do. "That was impressive. But did you know that with just one little wave of MY hand I can make EVERY person in the crowd go crazy with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display like that of your subjects, but will go deep into their hearts, and they will forever speak of this day and rejoice."

The senator seriously doubts this, and says so. "One little wave of your hand and all people will rejoice forever? Show me."
.
.
.
So the Pope slapped her.
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This is a very good letter to the editor. This woman made some good points. For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple.


NOT printed in the Orange County Paper...................

Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below) or which doe s not agree with the philosophy they're pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but, with your help it will get published via cyberspace!

New Immigrants
From: "David LaBonte"

My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to "print" it myself by sending it out on the Internet.
Pass it along if you feel so inclined.
Dave LaBonte (signed)

Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:

Dear Editor:

So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture.

Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity. Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan . None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people. When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are in 2006 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.
(signed) Rosemary LaBonte

P. S. Pass this on to everyone you know!!!
KEEP THIS LETTER MOVING!!

I hope this letter gets read by millions of people all across the nation!!

Ever onward!!

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA
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