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Created on: February 15, 2008
Baseball, Steroids, Senators, and inanity
I know that steroids are illegal and that the law prohibits their use unless under the care of a license physician.
That much I know, no one in baseball has died of steroid abuse, dozens however have died of steroid abuse related causes in the wrestling industry and their deaths are documented.
I 25 in Colorado is part of the big drug corridor that brings, oddly enough, drugs from Mexico, Central, and South America and distributes them all over the United States. The sad part is that almost everybody that lives near I 25 knows this. It is a secret in the open.
Do a web search on kidnappings in the border with Mexico and you should come up with more than fifty hits. There are more Americans kidnapped in or around the border with Mexico than there are American kidnappings in Baghdad. I should know since I have visited Baghdad many times.
A Congressman is found to have thousands of dollars in his freezer. Gives a new meaning to the phrase "cold hard cash". As far as I know, that guy is not in jail. And the Democrat Party either thinks that we are morons, by ignoring this case, or they are incredibly naive. "Google" Congressman Jefferson and you will find references to this interesting case.
Lets see, Lets see, if you open your mind, learn a bit about economics, and study the effects of tax reduction on our economy, you will see that it revitalizes it. Tax increases do the opposite. This is just an economic paradox that many politicians prefer to ignore.
Now, increased government spending increases our economic deficit.
Immigration is a weird animal because we want to be good people and good hosts to our undocumented friends. Let's apply some common sense to this one, shall we? You walk into your house and find a bunch of strange people in your living room, what do you do? Personally, I arm myself and call the police and find out who is in my house without my permission. We have millions of people coming into our backyard; do we know who they are? Or what they bring? I know, over 90% of them are nice honest people. But lets say that 5% are criminals. If we have 500,000 illegals breaking into our Nation's borders a year, then we have 25,000 criminals coming through our borders every year. Does not that worry you at least a bit? Those are the scumbags that bring the drugs that kill your kids and destroy our communities.
Madam Speaker of the House, with all do respect, what in the world are you doing? Just because you do not belief
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