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by Alex Gimarc Mon., Apr. 25, 2005 Interesting Items 4/25- Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Fat 1. Fat. Well, well, well. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced early last week that they had slightly over estimated the number of people killed by obesity every years. The new number is slightly under 26,000 yearly as opposed to their previous estimate of over 400,000 dead yearly. The paper also went on to state that being slightly overweight was in fact more healthful for a long life than being underweight. This revelation amounts to nothing less than an admission that the CDC has been actively lying to the general public for at least a decade. The only surprise is that they admitted the fraud publicly. You might ask how this all began? We need to look no farther than the trial lawyer assault on tobacco which got its big push during Bill Clinton’s first term. Remember that the Clinton administration committed scientific fraud within the EPA by cooking statistical analysis on the effects of second-hand smoke. This analysis provided the scientific underpinning necessary for the trial lawyers to go after the tobacco companies – and go after them, they did. They also started the same little game against fast food companies and other businesses by intentionally revising downward the weight and body-mass index numbers that defines obesity. The game reached its crescendo early in Bush’s first term when Tommy Thompson and the head of the CDC announced the obesity epidemic, complete with the estimate of 400,000 dead yearly. They diddled with the FDA’s old food pyramid to the point that it is all but incomprehensible. This was intended to give the trial lawyers and the food-Nazi activists the scientific foundation necessary to win yet another round of lawsuits. Unfortunately for the lawyers, both Kerry and algore lost their elections. It is always unfortunate when politics trumps science, for the truth ends up getting buried beneath political positioning. We have seen it for decades regarding environmental subjects. We have seen it for over a decade with tobacco and second-hand smoke. Apparently, we have been seeing it for at least a decade with obesity, fat, and fast foods. 2. Bolton. The nomination of John Bolton for UN Ambassador took a nasty turn early last week when George Voinovich (R, OH) decided that screaming democrats during a committee meeting were sufficient to get him to change his mind about supporting Bolton’s nomination. Voinovich missed the previous two meetings, was totally unprepared, and did not have the decency to even give the Chairman Dick Lugar (R, IN) a heads-up that he had changed his mind about supporting Bolton. Of course, the democrats were ecstatic, for the additional time gave them the opportunity to start digging out State Department people who hate Bush’s foreign policy and in turn hate Bolton for carrying out that policy. The first leak came from the old leaker himself, Colin Powell, who was gleefully reported by both the Washington Post and the NYT making unsupportive comments about his former subordinate during phone calls to democrat committee members. Powell has not publicly come out against Bolton’s nomination as of this writing. We also had several letters from democrat activists to democrat committee members alleging all manner of beastly, simply beastly treatment by Bolton over the years. The most famous obnoxious letter was written by a democrat activist and founder of the Dallas-based Mothers Opposing Bush. She alleged that Bolton chased her through the halls of a Moscow hotel, screaming and throwing things at her. Of course, the media and democrat members of the committee believed this, reported it as fact, and instantly and went right after Bolton. It turns out that Bolton and the lady were both contractors at the time working in separate locations in the former Soviet Union. According to a letter from the company president, the woman was a complainer, and complained loudly and long about literally everything. She was eventually fired for trying to take over the company’s contracts for herself. But she never, ever complained about Bolton. Other complaints out of the State Department have centered around disagreements between State Department civil service types and presidential appointees like Bolton over the Bush foreign policy. As we have known for years, the striped pants crowd really, really dislikes what Bush is doing with foreign policy and they are doing everything in their power to undermine it. Few things better describe the internal disaster that the State Department has become over the years. It is heartening to see someone appointed by the president stand up for himself and the president’s direction. If this discussion is to be about Bush’s foreign policy, let’s have it. If this discussion is about putting someone in the UN who will actively fight for the interests of the United States, let’s have that discussion also. The next vote is scheduled for May 12. Call your congress-critters. 3. Informant. Teddy Kennedy’s brother in law turns out to be an FBI informant inside democrat fundraising over the last three or four years. He was a young man that ingratiated himself doing campaign and fundraising activities during Clinton’s second presidential campaign and his second term. He was arrested and charged in an illegal campaign contribution / bank fraud / check kiting scheme in Louisiana 3-4 years ago. He decided to take a plea bargain and wore a wire for the FBI for over three years. He recorded conversations during democrat fundraising strategy sessions, fundraising, and related wheeling and dealing. He was the inside informant who taped David Rosen, who put together Hillary’s 2000 Hollywood Gala fundraising event, and gathered sufficient information that led to his arrest. He also participated in efforts to funnel foreign campaign contributions into democrat campaigns. The FBI is not saying anything about how much other information they have on other democrat campaign finance fraud. There should be a number of democrats getting nervous – one of them would be Hillary. Limbaugh, Fri. 4. Spotted Owl. News last week out of the US Forest Service described the failure of the Clintonoid forestry plan in the Northwest to protect the Northern Spotted Owl. The greens in charge of the National Forests seized some bogus counts of spotted owls as an excuse to all but shut down logging in the west. According to the greens, the owls needed old, decaying old growth forests to live in. The logging shutdown led to the loss of over 11,000 high-paying jobs, an increase in forest fires throughout the region, and a significant increase in the cost of lumber nationwide. You would expect that such a cost would lead to a healthy and increasing population of the birds. Not hardly. According to the report released last week, the population of spotted owls has decreased another 8% since 1994. The green solution is once again to shut down all remaining use of national forests. The real solution would be to quit doing what we are doing and bring back the chainsaws, for it appears that the owls do not like dying, decaying forests. They like living, growing things – new forests, new trees, new vibrant growth – precisely those sorts of things that you would see following a clear cut. Will we see this? Probably not. But we might see the return of forest management back to the states where the locals at least have a shot at changing the rules. Junkscience.com, Weds. 5. Illegals. Limbaugh spent the weekend out in California a week ago. He brought back a few stories. One of the most interesting was that the population of Los Angeles is growing quickly while the overall population of the state is decreasing. Does this mean that people from the rural areas are moving to LA? Probably – as long as you mean the people from rural Mexico are moving to LA. The locals believe that that the entire population growth in LA is due to illegals coming into the US from Mexico. It has gotten so bad that 11 emergency rooms have closed in LA over the last couple years because the only people showing up for treatment are illegals. Sooner or later we are going to have to step up and start controlling the borders. Legal immigration is fine, for it is subject to the political process. Illegal immigration is not fine, for it is a result of both political parties refusing to have the discussion in public. President Bush is trying to start that discussion. The democrats are busily pandering to what they believe are new democrat voters. A few Republicans like Tom Tancredo (R, CO) and JD Hayworth (R, AZ) are starting to push for a solution. James Sensenbrenner (R, WI) pushed legislation prohibiting the issuance of drivers’ licenses to illegals. Tancredo late last week said that legislation was about to be reported out of conference. This is a start to solve a growing problem that will only get worse. More later – - AG Interesting Items Interesting Items 4/18- Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Pebble 1. Pebble. A Canadian company has proposed a huge open pit gold mine in an area North of Lake Iliamna a couple hundred miles SW of Anchorage. The find of gold and other minerals is expected to be several billions of dollars, which would be an excellent economic boost for the Bristol Bay region of SW Alaska. The prime economic driver in the area is currently commercial salmon fishing, which is steadily getting crushed by the proliferation of farmed salmon worldwide. The secondary economic driver in the region is guided sportfishing on the many rivers and streams. There are no small number of native villages that are also in subsistence mode. Given all this, you would expect that the new mine would be embraced with open arms, if for no other reason that it would inject billions of dollars into the region. You would be wrong. A “grassroots” organization that calls itself the Bristol Bay Alliance formed up and sprang into action with lurid tales about the destruction of salmon and trout streams, habitat, tailing pits, leaching, and general destruction – the standard greenie fare against every single economic development here in Alaska. You can find the Alliance’s home page here: http://bristolbayalliance.org/ They had a booth at our annual Sportsman’s Show, handing out expensive literature, talking with everyone who would listen, and drumming up support. I chatted with the guy at the booth for a bit and asked him where they got their money from. He grinned and said that they would take donations from anyone and everyone. So I did a little bit of research with a Google search using the keywords “Bristol bay Alliance.” Found a little organization that runs a web page entitled Earthworks: http://actionnetwork.org/mpc/home.html This web site is the face of the environmental anti-mining movement. It is connected to a Washington DC-based outfit that calls itself the Mineral Policy Center, co-founded by a former Sierra Club Executive Director, Mike McCloskey and former LBJ Interior Secretary Stuart Udall, who also opposed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline while Secretary. These guys are no friends of either fishing opportunities or development of anything here in Alaska. Local papers have carried very positive articles about the machinations of these people and have regularly blasted the proposed mine. Attacks on mining are pretty easy, as they are generally big, and the old ones leave a mess. However, a lot of things have changed over the course of the last century, and miners, owners, Fish & Game management people have come to understand how to do both activities in the same general parcel of land. If there is anyone that can figure out how to make a large open-pit mine, trout and salmon streams co-exist and thrive, it is people up here who have a vested interest in making it work. If we can figure out how to inject some manner of property rights / ownership into the discussion, we then motivate the owners and operators of the mine to do their level best to keep things clean and friendly to fishing. For example, there is some pretty decent grayling and char fishing among the oilfields of Prudhoe Bay, Deadhorse, Kuparuk, Alpine and Badami on the Alaska North Slope when things are not frozen solid. Additionally, there is no better way to make any region environmentally friendly than to inject billions of dollars into the local economy – which this mine will do. We will hope the mine succeeds and as it succeeds, makes the Bristol Bay region more accessible to those of us from other parts of the state for fishing, hunting and recreation. 2. Bolton. The Senate Committee hearing on the nomination of John Bolton as UN Ambassador degenerated into democrat-led whining, moaning and groaning last week. Democrats oppose Bolton because he is committed to reforming the corrupt disaster that the UN has become over the last decade. They believe he may actually do what he is told to do. Rather than debate Bolton on the substance of his views, democrats instead trotted out a number of girly-men who were all having the vapors, swooning at the thought that Bolton would chew out a subordinate. One guy named Ford was supposed to be the silver bullet against Bolton. Ford, who claimed to be a life-long Republican (as if that matters), related a hair-raising story about Bolton ripping into a subordinate for cooking an intel estimate. Bolton was beastly, simply beastly with this subordinate. Upon further questioning, it turns out that Ford was not at the meeting and that people who were said the confrontation didn’t happen as described. It also turns out that Ford has been writing checks to democrat candidates since 1992. Politically, it appears that the committee will report out the nomination. Democrats on the committee got themselves another week to hold the vote, as they attempted to pressure Lincoln Chaffee ( RINO, RI) into opposing the nomination. Chaffee is up for reelection in 2006, and if he publicly comes out in opposition to Bolton, may not even get out of the Republican primary in RI next year. He will hopefully do the right thing. 3. House Ethics. We got a better description of the way House democrats have gamed the House Ethics Committee over the last several years in their ongoing attempt to destroy the Republican leadership. The game appears to be to file a blizzard of ethics complaints, refuse to investigate them, and let them hang out in the wind for years destroying the reputation of the target. They first did the deed against Newt Gingrich in the mid-1990s. Tom Delay is now the target. FNC also reported an unprecedented meeting between democrat minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) and democrat members of the House Ethics Committee. The meeting was probably held to ensure they kept things bottled up. The Republican leadership has responded by trying to force investigations on charges so the charges can either be made or dismissed. Democrats in the House don’t want this at all, for it will undermine their game. House Republicans have proposed a rules change that will require investigations within a specific time period or the charges will be dismissed out of hand. Democrats have refused to even attend House Ethics meetings on the new rules, denying a quorum. Limbaugh last week noted that the other reason they have refused to attend meetings appears to be an effort to protect “ Baghdad” Jim McDermott (D, WA) from punishment over his participation in illegal recording and transmission of cell phone calls during the mid-1990s. The House Ethics Committee is broken. Time to disband or reform it – with or without the democrats. 4. Glass Houses. Limbaugh spent most of last week demonstrating the absolute hypocrisy of democrat and media charges against House Majority leader Tom Delay (R, TX). The two public charges are that he went on trips funded by lobbyists and that he hired family members in his campaign. Both practices are legal under existing federal law and House rules. In essence, the democrats and their leftist lackeys in the (formerly) mainstream media are charging Republican corruption for doing legal things that everyone in congress regularly does. Here’s what Limbaugh reported last week: More later – - AG Interesting Items Interesting Items 4/11- Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Canada 1. Canada. Captainsquartersblog got itself into a bit of trouble with the Canadian government by publishing secret testimony of a money-man involved in a series of bribes for campaign cash, money laundering, all in return for government contracts over the last several years. There is speculation that cash injected into the Liberal Party coffers during the last couple of campaigns was repaid by with over $100 million in specially steered government contracts. The Canadian government is furious at the testimony leak, preferring to keep everything as quiet as possible. They are threatening every single web site that is carrying the story with immediate prosecution. They have tried to shut down the blogs and internet reporting in Canada, and have a pretty good job with that effort. They are having a more difficult time with sites here in the US that are simply being linked by Canadian sites. The campaign cash scheme apparently started during the time of Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who was no friend of the US. It threatens to take down Chretien’s replacement, Prime Minister Paul Martin, who was Finance Minister under Chretien. Canadian liberals are hiding behind closed court proceedings and secret testimony, hoping that if they bottle everything up, they will survive. Here’s hoping that the truth will out. If you are researching the story, do a search under the keywords: Brault, adscam, Groupaction. 2. Memo. We finally found the source of the Senate Schiavo memo. It came from the office of freshman Senator Mel Martinez (R, FL). Apparently, it was a draft document given Martinez by a staffer. Martinez claims to have never read the memo, and handed it sight unseen to Tom Harkin (D, IA) who promptly (and gleefully) gave it to the Washington media who then ran with the “Republicans are politicizing the murder” story. The (formerly) mainstream media played it out as a Republican dirty trick during the Schiavo debate. Conservative alternative media treated it as yet another example of leftist fraud. I was one of those. As it turns out, we were all wrong to some extent. It should not go unnoticed that the political instincts of Tom Harkin, who supported efforts to restart food and water for Terri Schiavo, were not dormant. While he supported the Schiavo legislation, he saw an opportunity to do damage to Senate Republicans and jumped on it instantly. Powerline Blog. 3. DeLay. Tom DeLay (R, TX) is the latest conservative in the cross hairs of the democrat attack machine. The Soros-funded 527s, think tanks and action organizations have been feeding old and incomplete stories to the leftist media for nearly three weeks. The attacks started shortly after DeLay made it clear that he was going after the last leftist enclave in the government – the federal courts. They are attacking DeLay on the ground that he has become a Washington insider, and as such is now too corrupt to be a Republican leader. Over the weekend, Robert Novak reported that the NY Times editorial page was shopping for Republicans to write an op-ed demanding that DeLay resign. They contacted former Louisiana Congressman Robert Livingston, who resigned an impending House Speakership in the late 1990s over an affair. Livingston refused to write the piece. Horowitz’ FrontPageMag.com web site has an article about how Soros now controls the democrat party via seven interlocking 527s and is driving this entire effort. DeLay is the target because he threatens the federal judiciary, which is the single vehicle left to the leftists to impose their agenda on an unwilling American public. When DeLay started speaking up against the judiciary in very blunt terms, the attack dogs were unleashed. They hope to so muddy the waters that they can start getting DeLay’s fellow Republicans to distancing themselves from him and asking for his resignation. Chris Shays (RINO, CN), author of the House version of campaign finance reform – the act that gave Soros’ 527’s their political clout last year, was the first House Republican to publicly call for DeLay’s resignation. More on Shays next week. The new set of attacks on DeLay mark a change in strategy by democrats and their sycophants in the (formerly) mainstream media. The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, headed up by former Clintonoid Rahm Emanuel (D, IL), has decided to reprise newt Gingrich’s strategy to capture the House in 1994. They are going to scream corruption for the next two years and expect the voters to toss out Republicans from control of the House. The difference here is that while democrats in control of the House were indeed corrupt after over 40 years in charge, Republicans are not there yet – although it is certainly possible after time. The difference here is that democrat corruption hardly ever gets reported in the (formerly) mainstream media. Everything a Republican does – corrupt or not – always will be, so our side is always kept honest, for they have nowhere to hide. I don’t think the Clintonoid plan to retake the House will work, for they don’t have anything else to run on – no Contract for America. Their only idea seems to be that Republicans are bad. So what? 4. Death Threat. The Little Green Footballs blog reported late last week that the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals just made life harder for the Secret Service. A 3-0 ruling found that death threats against the President weren’t really death threats after all. According to these fools in black robes, death threats against the president are now protected free speech. It is long past time for Congress to start impeaching and removing federal judges who have lost touch with reality. Contrast this ruling with last week’s public outrage by democrats and their media lackeys over supposed threats of violence against the federal judiciary. Sound like the Ninth Circus approves of those sorts of threats. 5. Obstruction. Democrat obstruction in the Senate to everything proposed by the Bush administration continued to build over the course of the week. They are against the appointment of John Bolton as UN ambassador. They oppose the new nominee to head up the EPA. They oppose the new nominee to head up the FDA. They continue to oppose conservative nominees to the federal courts. As the time nears to change senate rules on filibusters, both the rhetoric on the left and spinelessness by Republican squish senators continues to build. Some on our side of the political fence are “worried” about what will happen in the senate when Republicans are once again in the minority. They worry that Republicans will need to filibuster judicial nominees, and as a result, cower in fear. Well girls, here’s what will happen when the democrats take over again: They will change the filibuster rule about two nano-seconds after they figure they need to do so. After all, they were the ones who came up with the technique in the first place, executing the change in the late 1970s. When they change the rules, nobody will cover it. Nobody in the media will report the story. Republicans will once again be rolled by leftists in congress and their lackeys in the (formerly) mainstream media. If some on our side are too timid to fight, they need to resign office and take up some profession – like knitting or basket weaving - that is not nearly so combative. 6. Byrd. Robert Byrd (D, WV) was busy fighting the change in filibuster rules last week. While doing so, he inadvertently stated that the senate need not even vote on judges at all. This little observation was intended to undercut Republican calls for an up or down vote on judicial nominees on the floor of the senate. What it actually does is make it possible for Senator Frist (R, TN) to simply send a letter co-signed by 51 US Senators to the President in support of any nominee to stand in for confirmation. Frist won’t do this, but it would be fun to watch. More later – - AG Interesting Items Interesting Items 4/04- Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Schiavo 1. Schiavo. The Florida state courts and federal courts finally murdered Terri Schiavo last Thursday. The death came in the same manner as it was visited on handicappers, Jews and Gypsies in German concentration camps and hospitals nearly 70 years ago by the Nazis – by intentionally withholding water and food from the living and healthy. Remember that the Third Reich started cleansing the Aryan race by redefining what a human life really is – and they started by murdering the handicapped in the 1930s. Today, the modern practitioners of euthanasia target once again the handicapped, the weak, infirm, those that are unable to live their definition of the so-called “good life.” This is why the murderous apologists of this horrific action concentrated so long and hard on whether or not she was in a persistent vegetative state. For if you can redefine humanity by whether or not someone can do something for themselves, you open the door wide to their removal by starvation and dehydration or any other means that come to mind. As I mentioned last week, now that the Courts have taken the life of this innocent, more facts were to come out. One of those facts was the amazing relationship between those in positions of power in Pinellas County, on the state bench, and most importantly sitting on the Board of Directors of the Hospice. It appears that this case was orchestrated by the ghouls in the pro-death / euthanasia movement as a test case to open the door for elimination via starvation and dehydration of those that are unable to speak for themselves – the profoundly handicapped. The Florida Legislature changed the state law defining extraordinary measures for care of terminal patients in 1999 to include the removal of food and water via feeding tube. The Bill was supported by State Representative Gus Bilirakis who also spent some time sitting on the Board of Directors for the corporation that owned the Hospice. Michael Schiavo’s Lawyer Felos was Chairman of that board at the time. The Doctor who made the disputed diagnosis of Terri Schiavo as in a persistent vegetative state was a euthanasia activist, who has held for years that people that are unable to do things for themselves are no longer human. This chilling viewpoint is also being carried by the “bioethisist” movement. Side comment: Apparently Bioethics is to real ethics what honor and integrity are to a Clinton or a Kennedy. The doctor was one of the few involved not sitting on the Board of Directors. He was, however a vocal activist for the death industry. Judge Greer had several colleagues who were on the Board of the Hospice owning corporation. No conflict of interest here, eh? Lawyer Felos wrote a book about his “ministry” to the dying. Passages from his book are a bit more chilling than similar passages from Lovecraft, mainly because Lovecraft knew he was writing horror and fiction. Felos really, really loves the dead. The final nail in the public coffin of this case was hammered into place Friday when the Florida Department of Children and Families went to Judge Greer’s courtroom with a request to seal all court documents of the Schiavo murder. The request was in response to a Tampa Tribune investigation into the case. It appears we have discovered a little nest of corruption on the Florida Suncoast, all with personal monetary connection to the Hospice corporation and no small number connected to the Hemlock Society and related groups. It remains to be seen if Florida cleans up its mess. Most of the information in this section came out of a series of Toronto Free Press articles by Editor Judy McLeod last week. Limbaugh mentioned these articles Thursday. 2. Politics. The politics on this one are going to be real interesting, for Republicans are going to be rewarded by the public for doing the right thing for the right reasons. The media, on the other hand, which actively investigated efforts by two wives to murder disabled husbands via the same methods in the 1990s, once again refused to do its job and did not investigate. Instead, they carried the Big Lie that she was in a persistent vegetative state – as if this mattered at all. Another article during the week discussed the shift of disabled voters and their support organizations over the last 15 years. In 1992, they broke nearly 2:1 in support of Bill Clinton and other democrats. However, the support of euthanasia and end of life games by the “death-o-crats” has driven this group of voters away. By 2000, they only supported algore by 4-5%. Last year, they supported President Bush by 5-6% nationwide. Today, they are coming to the realization that the death-o-crats want to do the same thing to them as they do to the unwanted unborn innocents – which is to kill them by the millions. They are coming to realize that they have more in common with the Evangelicals and Christians than they do with the pro-death civil rights crowd running the death-o-crat party and the judiciary at the state and federal levels – and historically this is a very, very liberal group of voters. The pro-death crowd is going to regret this test case. The Florida State Legislature in particular and other state legislatures in general now have some legislation to pass in response to this murder. Florida needs to repeal HB 2131, which was passed with the strong support of the euthanasia movement in Florida and redefined food and water as extraordinary means of life support for patients. They need a complete forensic audit of the relationship between the Department of Children and Families and Florida Suncoast, which runs the Woodside Hospice and find out why the department did nothing about 86 allegations of abuse against Terri Schiavo. Expect this audit / investigation to lead to a substantial housecleaning in the agency which purposely fell down on their job of protecting this innocent. They need to change state law so that in the absence of clear, written or video, signed legal guidance, a person can never again can anyone be sentenced to death without sitting in front of a jury, getting convicted, and getting a death sentence handed down by that jury. A single judge trying a civil case simply has no business handing down this sort of death sentence. The trial must be conducted under the same evidentiary rules as a criminal proceeding. The Governor also must have the ability to pardon or commute the death sentence just like in a criminal case. The person who cannot defend themselves must be defended in this proceeding by their own lawyer – completely separate from that of the guardian – funded out of their estate if necessary. If the other side – the death-o-crats - wants to start handing out and dealing in death sentences, then by God they best conduct and win a jury trial. Finally, Florida needs to refine the guardianship rules so that the handicapped receive necessary and promised therapy. They might want to revisit common law marriage and bring back the concept; and they need to revisit the notion of finding of fact in a case when one side has no honest say in the proceedings. 3. Pope. Pope John Paul II passed away Saturday morning. He was one of the great anti-war figures of the 20th Century, along with Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He may also be the greatest evangelical Pope in history, returning vigor to the Church, bringing in the young, reaching out to Christians in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and setting a firm foundation of morality in all that the Church does. The worst black mark on his time was the homosexual priest scandal in the US. As of this writing, he is already being referred to as Pope John Paul the Great, an honorific bestowed on only a couple previous men. We have been blessed by his time among us. 4. CO Supremes. The Colorado Supreme Court by a 3-2 vote found that jurors in a death penalty case cannot consult a Bible while deliberating on the guilt or innocence of a perp in a death penalty case. Five jurors who handed down a death sentence consulted the Bible and discussed various passages from it during deliberations. The defense used the story and a rabidly anti-Christian Colorado Courts system to overturn the death sentence on the grounds of separation of state and religion. The decision sounds a lot more like more enlightened Christian-bashing by the judiciary and legal profession than anything else. The perp’s sentence was reduced to life in prison. No word at this time whether this outright religious discrimination is going to run afoul of any Colorado discrimination laws. Is this a Great Country, or what? Limbaugh, Fri. More later – - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
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