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Just ask the political left: It’s OK to hate guns and gun owners!

Or ask the right: It’s OK to hate anti-gun-rights bigotry and the smarmy policies and corrupt political hacks who promote it!

Just ask the president: It’s OK to hate broccoli!

Ask anyone but Islamist murderers: It’s OK to hate Islamofascists who blow up little children and behead innocent people as a political statement!

It’s OK to hate your enemies!

But it’s not required. It’s a choice you get to make!

Yes, hatred is as natural a human trait as hunger, and neither one is going away any time soon, no?

And hate-crime laws are as hateful as the hate they hate and impotently seek to ban!

So stop sniveling! Reduce hate in your own life? Fine!

Enforce your will on me? Not so fine, because I hate that!

By Special Guest Columnist Craig “Extremist” Cantoni

Four political groups are unhappy with the current state of affairs in the nation: left-liberals, faux conservatives on the religious right, progressives, and libertarians/true conservatives. Let’s see which group has the biggest beef:

Left-liberals are unhappy about a lot of things, including being born. But when all of that unhappiness is boiled down to its essence, their major beef is that there is not enough redistribution. They want higher taxes on the “rich” so that there will be more social justice, more fairness, less poverty, and fewer Wal-Mart stores. (I don’t understand what Wal-Mart has to do with anything, but my job here is to just repeat what they say.)

Do left-liberals have the biggest beef? No, for two reasons: one, because the government is not forcing them to do something that they don’t want to do; and two, because no one is stopping them from giving their money to their pet causes. They’re even free to start their own retail chain and charge the poor higher prices.

Faux conservatives on the Religious Right are unhappy with the secular state, with the banning of God from classrooms and public squares, and with Americans marrying sheep or people of the same gender. But they don’t have the biggest beef, because no one is stopping them from practicing their faith. Heck, they can even start their own religion, although, admittedly, all of the good ones have already been taken, including the one about God speaking through a burning bush, the one about a prophet flying to heaven on a winged horse, the one about a guy in Italy being infallible, and the one about an angel giving golden tablets to an absentminded prophet who then loses them.

Progressives are unhappy that the government isn’t more of a busybody. But they don’t have the biggest beef, because they’re still free to form their own utopian sub-society with its own busybody rules. It might even become a tourist attraction, like the Amish in Pennsylvania.

Since you’re a smart cookie, you’ve probably concluded through a process of elimination that libertarians and true conservatives have the biggest beef. Yes, indeed. Why? Because the other three groups won’t leave them alone.

Libertarians and true conservatives believe that people can do whatever they want as long as they’re not harming anyone else. Like the Founders, they believe that government should be powerful enough to protect life, liberty and property, but not so powerful that it infringes on basic rights. They even have the quaint notion that the individual comes before the collective.

A typical day for a libertarian or true conservative goes like this: You are sitting at home minding your own business when there is a knock on the door. Opening the door, you find a left-liberal with a collection basket, a member of the religious right with a Bible and a video camera, and a progressive with a new regulation. The left-liberal wants your money, the religious righter wants to put the Bible and camera in your bedroom, and the progressive wants to tax your cigarettes to fund the early childhood development of other people’s kids. If you slam the door in their faces, they’ll come back with federal agents to break down the door and enforce their will upon you.

Libertarians and true conservatives don’t knock on other people’s doors or retain federal agents to break down other people’s doors. Yet, amazingly, they are called names by the other groups, especially the pejorative of “extremist.” Imagine that: The nation has strayed so far from its founding principles that if you mind your own business you’re an extremist.

Well, take it from this extremist that the political group with the biggest beef is the libertarian/true conservative group. Gotta go now. Someone is knocking on the door.

An author, columnist and extremist, Mr. Cantoni can be reached at ccan2@aol.com.

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Firearms marketers, lead by industry giant Ellet Brothers (a commercial distributor), are expanding their lines of “Homeland Defender” products to the general public.

“Consumer demand for tactical and strategic product lines are fast becoming the growth sector of the market,” said one knowledgable insider. “Americans are increasingly aware that authorities show up only after the fact, and that good old self-reliance gene Americans seem to have is expressing itself with great vigor.” Citizens want to be prepared for anything, and responding to Sep. 11, Katrina, and media-promoted psychotics they are snapping up an array of militia-readiness gear.

In other news, guns sales and gun-book sales are up significantly nationwide.

The lamestream media told you:

Government authorities warned today that, with an aging baby boomer generation, as much as 20 cents of every dollar could be spent on health care in the U.S. by the end of the next decade.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Health care officials were ecstatic on news today that as much as 20% of the entire U.S. economy could go into their pockets within ten years. “The best part is that most of it will just be given to us by the government, which runs the system and controls the insurance industry — which it plans to make mandatory. Consumers, who will pay the bills through forced taxation, could not be reached for comment.

The lamestream media told you:

President Bush went to the Mexican border at Yuma again to tout a four point plan to fix the illegal immigration problem. “Apprehensions are down 30%,” he said, “so we’re making progress.” His plan includes a guest worker program but does not include amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegals already here.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

A reduction in captures is not a reduction in illegal immigration, it is a reduction in captures. Instead of catching one out of two illegals, as the Border Patrol has for years claimed it achieves, this implies it is now catching 0.7 for every two illegals attempting entry, if the President’s numbers are correct. How illegals are improving rates of entry was not reported.

The “news” media has been claiming 11 million illegals in the U.S. since at least 2002. But the Border Patrol has been claiming it catches one million annually at its one-out-of-two success rate. A simple investigative tool called a “calculator” shows this means one million illegals gain entry every year. That would mean at least 16 million illegals here. The Uninvited Ombudsman has shown this evidence to the news media. No correction has been issued, and the 11 million figure remains the standard on the networks, cables, radios, papers and “news” magazines.

Critics charge that reporters are incapable of doing math, possibly because they only study English in J schools. Less than 11 million reporters deny the charge.

The lamestream media told you:

Forming the European Union was a wise and logical step in the development of Western Civilization’s heartland.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The number one name for new baby boys in Belgium is Mohammed. The number one name for new baby boys in Amsterdam is Mohammed. The number one name for new baby boys in Malmo, Sweden is Mohammed. In England, it is only number five.

Unrestrained immigration policies, coupled with lavish welfare cash giveaways to immigrants, funded on the backs of heavily taxed native citizens pounded daily by their media on the wonders of socialist “fairness,” is contributing to the impending destruction of the heart of Western civilization.

Immigration of high birth-rate Muslims, and the low birth rate of native French, now places France in the lead, within two generations of having a Muslim majority and sharia law. Under sharia law, all cultural elements that do not abide with the Koran (music, dance, art, literature, architecture, sculpture, free thought, attractive women, etc.) must be destroyed or enslaved.

The lamestream media has been too busy with American Idol and campaign cash scores to cover this minor story. Read While Europe Slept and America Alone for a wake up call.

The lamestream media told you:

“While once-a-year mammograms are urged for older women, women who haven’t reached their 50th birthday should feel free to make up their own minds about whether to get annual exams, according to new guidelines from the American College of Physicians,” reports Lisa Krieger in the San Jose Mercury News on April 3.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

“Letting women make up their own minds is so radical and dangerous the idea should be abandoned immediately,” according to Counterintutitve Man. “The College of Physicians should be ashamed of themselves for such a preposterous suggestion, clearly only meant to increase the numbers of exams they sell to line their pockets with filthy lucre from unsuspecting patients,” he said.

Correcting Counterintuitive Man, the Uninvited Ombudsman notes that physicians don’t sell exams, they just bill the government (or government-sanctioned insurance monopolies), which takes money by force from the public, to give to doctors.

“The Earth is The Lord’s and the Fullness Thereof”– 1 Corinthians 10:26 (KJB)

I do not worry about the Earth…because it DOES belong to The Lord God Almighty.  Therefore, He is in control of what happens to it. Yes I am to be a good steward of the earth and not take advantage of it, but at the same time, I am not going to become obsessive about saving it. Everything is in God’s hands, He is in control.

Global Warming advocates have pushed Global Warming over and over, to the point of hysterics. Al Gore testified before Congress last month on the need to implement changes in American society that would counteract the effects of Global Warming. No doubt there were a few in Congress who disagreed with his assertions, and as Gore continued with his thoughts on the issue, he was clearly irritated.

And at one point, Gore proposed a tax on those who pollute.  Meaning those who insist on using carbon dioxide spewing devices. Well that means he will have to tax most of America. That is so unrealistic and over the top.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/21/AR2007032100709.html

Another over the top encounter occurred at the most recent White House Correspondent’s Association Dinner where singer Sheryl Crow and the producer of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”, Laurie David, went up to Karl Rove, President Bush’s advisor and prodded him about Global Warming.

Read about the confrontation here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,267727,00.html

Needless to say, the conversation was very tense, tense to the point that Sheryl Crow felt she needed to reach out and grab Rove’s arm to which Rove barks back, “Don’t touch me” as he was turning to leave the conversation with the 2 women. What has happened to respect for our leaders? Surely that was inappropriate.  One can state their case to our leaders without the need to get nasty.

Global Warming advocates have one thing in common, their annoyance with anyone who disagrees with their point of view.  If it is about presenting the facts, then why get angry? Just present your thoughts about the subject and let people make their own decisions about it. Let people separate the facts from the fabrications.

Those who push a biased and an often partly untrue view on Global Warming do not consider other points of view on the issue. It’s their way of seeing things, or else.

Dr. Timothy Ball, a climatologist who has been critical of the prevailing Global Warming view that man is to blame ( http://www.geocities.com/zacherle_hoag/tball ), continues in his harsh commentary of those who continue to mislead the public with a biased view of the Global Warming issue.  

In an email to distinguished writer Noel Sheppard, Dr. Ball says, “…When you go public and allow the output of the models to become the basis of global, national and regional policy there is a different set of responsibilities and these are definitely not being met.”Worse, they are deliberately being manipulated and misused.

Again, it is one thing for uninformed people intimidated or fooled by the manipulation to be pursuing what they’re told is good and necessary, but it is something very different when it is the producers of the models who willfully or through lack of understanding are doing the misleading….”

Read more here: http://newsbusters.org/node/12174

I would rather have a respected member of the scientific community address to me concerns about our environment than a failed Presidential candidate or members of the entertainment industry. Because clearly, there is an agenda behind the Global Warming “scare” without all of the facts being presented. Here is my opinion…let the public hear from as many people from the scientific community as possible on Global Warming, so we do not get a one-sided view of the issue.  

A recent finding that has come forth from another person in the scientific community… sunspots are affecting our warming Earth and other planets in the solar system.

Dr Sami Solanki of the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich studies solar activity. His findings are as follows:

“…looking at the past 1,150 years the Sun has never been as active as it has been during the past 60 years.

Over the past few hundred years, there has been a steady increase in the numbers of sunspots, a trend that has accelerated in the past century, just at the time when the Earth has been getting warmer.

The data suggests that changing solar activity is influencing in some way the global climate causing the world to get warmer.”

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3869753.stm

Others in the scientific community seem to support the claim that the sun is responsible for the Earth’s warming, and the warming of other planets in our solar system. Russia’s Habibullo Abdussamatov of Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, the head of space research there, also asserts that the warming of the Earth and of Mars, is caused by the sun’s changes.

“The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars,” said Abdussamatov.

“Man-made greenhouse warming has made a small contribution to the warming seen on Earth in recent years, but it cannot compete with the increase in solar irradiance,” he said.

Read more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html

As one can see, there are many factors contributing to the condition of our Earth. The Global Warming hype that humans are solely to blame and they need to change their behavior is far fetched.  People need not buy into that hype. Do thorough research on Global Warming before coming to a definitive decision on what is causing our Earth to experience the cycles in warming and cooling.

I want to live in a healthy environment, and I do what I can to make sure that I do, but I am not going to go out of my way to drastically change my way of life.  For example, I am NOT going to take up the suggestion to cut back and use one sheet of toilet paper when using the bathroom, as Sheryl Crow suggested.  Can we get real here?!

Read more: http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55342

And I will NOT be suckered into attempts by environmental-crazed celebrities to take money from me for the “Save the Earth” cause.  It’s all hype and nonsense.

Bottom line, the answers are found among various experts in the scientific community and in the belief that God Almighty holds the Earth, and everything He created, in His hands.  Now why should I worry about the Earth when He is ultimately in control?

*Felicia (Fee) Benamon is a political columnist who writes for various conservative sites including RenewAmerica.us, Michnews.com, Daley-Times Post, Renaissance Women ( http://www.rwnetwork.net/ ) , Capitolhillcoffeehouse.com, TheConservativeVoice.com, Mensnewsdaily.com, ConservativeCrusader.com, and other news sites like AmericanChronicle.com.  She is a columnist and a reporter for the Mid-South Patriot ( www.freewebs.com/midsouth-patriot ) in Memphis, TN.  Felicia hails from a military background, and has been politically active since the 2000 elections.  She has been a guest speaker on various conservative internet talk radio shows.

You may email Felicia: Feereports@aol.com

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Now that it’s nearly impossible to sneak onboard a commercial aircraft with a weapon larger than an eyebrow tweezers, the FAA Air Marshals program is growing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman has obtained the actual shooting drill for air marshals, useful to anyone who wants to develop a similar level of proficiency. It is one hard mother of a program.

Like the El Presidente exercise some shooters may be familiar with, the drill is shot cold (no warmup allowed), with all shots at seven yards, at an FBI standard QIT “bottle-shape” center mass target.

The target, timed shot strings and explanations are posted at gunlaws.com. A total of 30 shots must be fired in thirteen stages (6 of which are repeats), in a combined total of 33.8 seconds. The drills involve reloads, multiple targets, and a 180 degree three-target string. Do you think you could qualify?

The lamestream media told you:

Sen. John McCain, once considered the Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination, has “stumbled,” collecting only $12 million in the first quarter, an amount termed “anemic” when compared to his competitors. Mitt Romney raised $23 million in the same time period to take the Republican lead.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Influence peddlers, power brokers and rank and file have paid John McCain $12 million in just three months, in their bid to seek access, privileges and other benefits from the man who championed campaign finance reform to stop the corrupting influence of money. His bill, when read, actually prevents the public from mentioning a candidate’s name in promotions within 60 days of a national election.

The mind-boggling amounts of money candidates are taking hand over fist from everyone in sight are listed in the daily papers like sport scores:

“By not immediately releasing his first quarter totals, Obama is building suspense about a possible big splash.” “The New Mexico governor, not generally viewed as a major candidate, raised a respectable $6 million, and in doing so, increased his national media profile.” I am not making this up.

No mention of the corrupting influence of money, or the gutless reform act newspapers used to champion, can be found.

If $12 million dollars is stumbling, may you all fall flat on your kisser.