The Sunday Wrap Up, Feb 24, 2008

The Sunday Wrap Up, February 24, 2008

I have to say that I am happy that the pilots of the B-2 Stealth Bomber that crashed this week end are alive and healthy. Our freedom took a small hit when one of only 21 of these marvels of technology went down.

The military says those magnificent birds cost a cool 1.2 billion US dollars each. That means the total fleet cost a very cool 25 billion to build. Yes a very expensive aircraft fleet but money well spent. In fact we should probably build more of them. In fact we should build more stealth fighter jets and maybe even stealth rockets.

Lets face it the cost of freedom is very high. It cost a lot in blood and money. If you think for one moment that we would survive as a nation with a week military, then I would suggest you look at every other nation with a weak military. Most of them have changed governments many times since our nations founding.

We have a special place in history for being a steady and reliable and amazingly enough we have had over 40 bloodless changes of power. And despite what the Liberals call President George W Bush, there will be another bloodless change of power next January. Amazing.

And all of this brought to you by the men and women who fly, drive, sail and use the amazing and sometimes expensive equipment that protect our nation and our liberty.

Global warming or global cooling or is it man made global climate change? Now even I am confused. Anyway, it seems that Sir. Richard Branson has a first for the record books. His Virgin Atlantic Airlines has just flown the first commercial jetliner fueled by bio diesel

Now, we all know that bio fuels are not the answer to our energy problems (not that we have energy problems in the first place) and our climate pollution problems. However, they claim that bio fuels will solve some of our energy and pollution problems. Bio fuel emits less pollution than regular jet fuel.

This is all well and good except for the fact that bio fuel takes away from people fuel. What is people fuel? It is commonly referred to as food. Bio fuel is made from different kinds of edible food products such as corn, wheat, coconut and other food stuffs and food staples. Even sugar cane can produce bio fuel.

But that is just the tip of the ice burg with the problems of bio fuel. The main problem is the reason we are traveling down the bio fuel road to begin with. It seems that those in the know are now confused about this as well.

This is evidenced by a recent AP story about this historic event. Although it is not about the fuel itself, it was about global warming or global cooling. Well here is an excerpt from the story, you decide.

Aircraft engines cause noise pollution and emit gases and particulates that reduce air quality and contribute to global warming and global dimming, where dust and ash from natural and industrial sources block the sun to create a cooling effect.

So my question is, if jet aircraft can cause both global warming and global dimming which, in the end produces global cooling, then should we not start flying these things around the globe in strategic places? I mean should we not fly air craft in areas that are too hot so it can give them some relief?

How can you get hotter and cooler at the same time unless you are sitting in an air conditioned car in Arizona? Trust me on this folks. These people are going to be coming after you wallets and they are going to push for laws that limit or eliminate your freedom and liberties. They will do this all in the name of “saving the planet when they don't even have any logical or conclusive evidence that man is the cause of any climate change taking place on our globe.

Read the story for yourself: AP – Virgin Flies Biofueled Jed From London

The Devil is in the Details

There was a movie that was released back in 1997. It has as much relevance today as it did back then. Actually, it was a movie that was probably at least a decade overdue. It started Keanu Reeves and Al Pacino. The name of this movie? Devil's Advocate.

Now why is this movie so relevant today? Because it is a movie about lawyers. Yes, I know all the jokes about lawyers. I even wanted to be one of those blood sucking parasites at one point in my life. I went to school for law and order. I took the requisite business law, criminal justice and criminal law. I even took international law 101. Plus I dabbled in Constitutional law.

All well and good, you say but what does a fictional movie out of Hollywood have to do with today and what does it have to do with liberty and freedom? Well, man's law dictates everything you do in your life. Lawyers make the laws. Lawyers interpret the law. Lawyers bend the law to fit their need in and out of court. Lawyers can make a seemingly very clear and concise law murky and even twist it to mean something it was never intended to mean.

Lets take the First Amendment of the Constitution for an example. We have freedom of speech and a free press. Not according to McCain/Feingold. It says that money is not equal to free speech even if you need money in order to express your right to free speech. This law limits your ability to freely express your opinions and thoughts when it concerns elections and those running for office.

How about the “Separation of Church and State.” Many Americans do not know that those words do NOT appear anywhere in the Constitution. However, some lawyers decided that they could twist the actual words that are written in the Constitution to mean something it was not intended to mean. These lawyers successfully twisted the Constitution to mean that there cannot be any connection between religion and our government.

This was clearly not the case nor the intent of our Founding Fathers. If you read any of their letters, decrees and the Constitution itself you would know the Founding Fathers did not intend for the total separation of church and state. They only intended that there be no national or formal government religion or church such as there was and is in England. You know England, its the country that our Founding Fathers saw fit to separate from through the American Revolution.

In the movie “Devils Advocate” Al Pacino plays the devil, Satan, who runs a very powerful international law firm based in New York City. First of all, if he truly wanted to be at the center of sin, would he not have based his firm in Las Vegas? Well, no. New York is the hub of the business world. Just about every major law firm in the world is either based there or they have a major presence in that city. The Devil (Pacino) also known as Mr. Milton, has a few very memorable lines in this movie.

One of the more true to reality lines is “Lawyers are into everything.” This is true, lawyers control the law. The law controls everything. If you don't believe me, then just read your contract for cellular phone service, for any contest or give away, for any service or offering. A lawyer wrote all of that. A lawyer thought up all the laws that need to be put into those contracts and agreements.

Just look at your computer. Every time you download or upload a new program or service, you have to agree to some terms. You have to mark that you have read and understand and accept those terms before you get to use that program or service. If you don't agree, you don't get to use the program or service even if you have already paid for it.

Lawyers control every aspect of your life. In this country and in most countries across the globe you cannot even practice law unless you pass some sort of BAR exam that is set up and administered by lawyers. This is there way of keeping average people out of their ranks. This is how they keep control of your life. They keep control of the law and the law controls your life.

I am not saying there are not good and honest lawyers out there. Of course there are. But they have to work within a system that has been corrupted by more powerful lawyers of days gone by. The good lawyers fight an uphill battle on a daily basis to keep you and me safe.

It is very important that we elect people who know the law yes. But it is even more important to elect people who will not attempt to bend the law to their own selfish interest and will. When they do that, we the people, suffer. We the people lose our rights. We the people lose our freedom. We the people become ensnared, entrapped and enslaved by the law.

Yes, lawyers are into everything. Yes the law controls our daily life. Yes, the correct saying is “The Devil is in the Details.” Think about it next time you decide to hand over your freedom of anything to a lawyer running for office. Notice, once you give him your freedom, they never give it back even when you ask.