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Once again an educated person attempts to cloud an issue: This time with the 9th Amendment which reads.......

Amendment IX - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

After which Article VI of the Constitution is misquoted to give the appearance that a treaty trumps your rights.

Article VI. - Debts, Supremacy, Oaths
(paragraph 1 skipped)
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.
(paragraph 3 skipped)

This only says that the US Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and treaties made by the US trump state law.
The key is"Constitution or Laws of any State".

This is why it is imperative that we insist that public schools teach American children the Declaration of Independence, the full US Constitution and emphasize the Bill of Rights. We can all see that the 9th amendment was used only in an attempt to embarrass people into silence.

Truth!!

While I would rather see the two former Border Patrol agents pardoned, Congress would have to amend the constitution.

Article II. - The Executive Branch
Section 2 - Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
(paragraph 1)
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

Can we the people require our representatives to read the Constitution of the United States?
If we can, we should. This way they would not make themselves, and us, laughing stocks.

...."recent study shows methane produced from animals (cattle, sheep, etc..) to be more of a problem with "greenhouse emissions" than burning of fossils fuels in what is so called the "greenhouse effect"."

Saw the same piece, but keep in mind, creating CO2 by burning fossils fuels is only bad if industrialized nations do it. We don't want to stop underdeveloped nations from messing up the environment 'cause thats "not fair". I guess they should be allowed to create problems until they get industrialized.

A few things to think about....
The evil of CO2
Each human contributes 724 lbs/year to the atmosphere
(caused by breathing)
The US contributes 109 million (US) tons/year
The world contributes 2.21 billion (US) tons/year
The population of the developed nations has remained relatively stable for the last half century.
(this CO2 caused by breathing only)
In the last half century the world population has gone from approximately 2 billion to about 6.1 billion.
Most of that increase is in underdeveloped countries
(per the UN, the only growth [4 billion people] was in undeveloped countries) Undeveloped countries still burn old fields to get them ready for planting.
(Several years ago there was a major fire in Mexico from just such a fire that was causing respiratory distress north of Oklahoma.)
Kyoto protocols only look at industrial pollution.
Then there are minor factors like the temperature of the surface of the sun (which warms the Earth.)
The Earth's locations in it's eccentric orbit
The molecular density of the area of space between the Sun and the Earth
The additional heat generated by the body mass of the additional 4 billion humans in the world... (I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but I bet someone is)
The hot air generated by politicians (left, right, and center)
And probably 100's more factors that I have never heard of.

And now that the Global Warming has eased off here in Texas, I guess I'll get in my Jeep and drive into town and get some groceries.

I'm running out of groceries! Can't get into town!
Global Warming has kept I10 and US83 in Texas closed for the last two days. (About 90 miles from the Mexican border)
Pretty soon we will need portable heaters to stop the undocumented immigrants from suffering and dieing from the Global Warming!.

How a Hanging is Supposed to Work
It prevents a repeat offense and protects the public.

Walter Watson needs more range time.
Aim center.... Squeeze!

First let the tribal chiefs of each African tribe that sold them into slavery apologize.
Then let each descendant of a slave ship captain that brought them here apologize.
Then let each descendant of a former slave owner apologize.
Then ask them if they are Americans or African-Americans.
If they respond "I am an American", shake their hand and say "I am too."
If they say "I am an African-American", see how they respond to an offer to be repatriated to their native land.
I've never owned a slave and therefore owe apologies to no one!

Once again, the AP (Anti-American Press) through their fellow travelers at the decaying NYT proves that most of its reporters are the failed products of liberal education.

"opposition from traditional U.S. allies in the European Union as well as from developing nations....."

The author mentions only five countries by name. Russia, China, Germany, France, and Australia. Now I'm not real bright, but the last time I looked at a map, only Germany and France are in the EU.

Every time the author mentions people disagreeing he throws in something like "and many other EU nations" while in the one area where he/she/it says someone agrees with us the term is "and other countries." Obviously not objective reporting, not that we expect it from these anti American sources.

A final note:
If you look back at American history, the record of Europe being our friend is very sketchy.
France has not helped us in a war since the American Revolution, and they deposed the monarchy that helped us.(Although we have bailed them out several times.)
Germany fought on the side of the British during the American Revolution (Referred to in history books as Hessian soldiers.) And was part of the opposition in every other major war.

So would someone explain where this "Traditional" stuff comes from!

The American Communist Litigators Union says and does a lot of things because "We The People" are lazy stupid and ignorant. The immigration issue has been confused with the Naturalization issue.

The pertinent sections of the US Constitution are:
Article 1, Section 8 which among other things stipulates:
"To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization......

I don't see anything about immigration which takes place before a person can be naturalized.
Amendment X to the US Constitution which says:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Sure sounds like that authority belongs to the people since it is not reserved by United States, and the States haven't stepped up to the plate.

Of course I'm not a lawyer and probably don't understand the nuances involved in something that appears to be this clear and unambiguous!

A couple of interesting points....

Every time he related something to a black woman, or to Hispanic women. Should we assume that where not mentioned he was referring to white women? I really don't know.

He seemed to imply that this was strictly the woman's choice. Do you suppose it ever occurred to him that with the number of self seeking, self serving women out there, many men will go to the animal shelter and get a female dog if they want loyalty and companionship rather than one of the carrier ones in his interview?

"There should be tort imunity against anyone who is committing a crime."

One of the best suggestions I have ever heard.
Make sure it immunizes against their family also!

"Why, in the case of someone committing a crime, who was killed while being apprehended, a reporter would find the biased mother's comments worthy of an article unto itself, I can't quite understand. Unless, maybe, it is a case of biased reporting... ?

The first thing to look at is that the article has an Associated Press tag on it. Or as thinking people say, The Anti-American Press.

Second, they (AP) went looking for this peasant woman.
I can say peasant because if he had to come to the United States illegally to find work to help his family they were way below the Mexican middle-class.
She must have absolute moral authority because her son is dead (MSM101).

Third, the AP thought this was news worthy because it is anti-american and other than the weather, it's a slow news week.

Last point... The AP is synonymous with biased reporting!

"We need to look at what options we have available to constrain the president," said Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois......

Obama, reading the words in the US Constitution would be a good start.

"You don't like to micromanage the Defense Department, but we have to, in this case, because they're not paying attention to the public," said Rep. John Murtha.....

Same advice to Murtha! It's not your job.

"British Prime Minister Tony Blair's official spokesman said that the way in which Saddam Hussein's half-brother was executed was "wrong"......"

I won't be too critical of the British, but it seems to me that the US Constitution's Amendment 8 prohibition against "cruel and unusual punishment" had something to do with the British actions before they were expelled from the United States.

In a polite effort to reeducate Mr. Jonathan Clark, I have made a minor edit to his copy. This should also help clear up some of President Felipe Calderon's questions.

BISBEE — Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday voiced his “most energetic protest” against the shooting death of a young illegal Mexican immigrant an illegal alien by a Naco-based Border Patrol agent on Friday and expressed frustration with a lack of information in the case.

According to information from the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector headquarters, an agent from the Naco Border Patrol station encountered a group of six men and one woman crossing the desert near the Paul Spur limestone plant at approximately 3 p.m. Friday.

That sounds very clear. We have a federal law enforcement agent and an illegal alien in close proximity.


"As the agent attempted to detain the group, he was reportedly hit or pushed by Dominguez-Rivera before taking out his gun and shooting."

“The officer was in fear of his life and took the actions he deemed appropriate,” Dannels said.

The illegal alien tried to resist arrest!

Brief recap:
An illegal alien was shot by a Border Patrol officer while resisting arrest!

Cuts right to the chase, doesn't it Mr. Clark?

See how easy that was President Calderon !
You have just had an English lesson.

President Calderon:

Please advise your nationals that in the USA it is not considered a good idea to resist arrest. We don't consider a law enforcement officer protecting his own life by the use of deadly force to be “disproportionate violence.”

Thank you,
An American Citizen

cc: Members of the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat

assault weapons

The ultimate oxymoron!

"Lizzie Borden took and Axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one."

So she assaulted her parents with an ax.
Doesn't that qualify an ax as an assault weapon?

"Anyone who frames his comments with "hunting" has a long way to go to become convincing."

Many liberals and those who never learned to diagram sentences, and never read the Constitution and Bill of Rights think that the 2nd Amendment has something to do with hunting or the military.
This also explains why Johnny can't read and the liberals like it that way.

"charges of rape, sexual assault, and kidnapping"

I understood (more or less) the false "rape" charge, but can't for the life of me understand the imaginary basis for the other two charges.