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JUNE 11,2004
 
Dear Mr. President:
When you weren't tearing down commie walls, you were building America back up. You pulled us from the mire of mediocrity and guilt riddened melancholy of the 1970's. You gave us back our pride, dignity and self respect. You were a class act.
Goodbye Ronald Wilson Reagan our 40th President.
We will miss you.
 
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WARNING
 
From the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Bureau of Customs & Border Protection
Washington, DC 20229
Government Warning regarding purchase of UPS uniforms. There has been a huge purchase, $32,000 worth, of United Parcel Service uniforms on eBay over the last 30 days. This could represent a serious threat as bogus drivers (terrorists) can drop off anything to anyone with deadly consequences.  If you have any questions when a UPS driver appears at your door, they should be able to furnish a valid I.D.  Additionally, if someone in a UPS uniform comes to make a drop off or pick up, make absolutely sure they are driving a UPS truck.  UPS doesn't make deliveries or pickups in anything, except a company vehicle. If you have a problem, IMMEDIATELY call your local law enforcement agency right away!
 
Friends, this is not a joke. It seems like the only people who know we are at WAR is our enemy.
 
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JUNE IS ANIMAL RIGHTS MONTH
THE animal rights movement knew what it was doing when it deliberately adopted the label 'animal rights'.  The concept of 'rights' is very powerful in the American political lexicon.  It carries a lot of weight.
 
Rights are either God-given or evolve out of a democratic process.  Rights are created by humans through social contracts and agreements.  Neither of which can animals reach.
 
God created man in His own image and placed him in a position superior to all other creatures, and gave him dominion over animals and nature.  Let's face it, human beings are the primary species on this planet.  Animals and everything else are subspecies whose position on the planet is subordinate to that of humans.  Humans have a responsibility toward lower species and must treat them humanely.  Humanely, that's the word!  Doesn't that mean as a human would like to be treated?  Exactly.   Humans accord protection to animals by establishing laws and rules governing cruelty and anticruelty.  But don't be fooled, laws are not the same as rights.  The only right an animal has is one which you gave him.
 
Now for the insanity.
 
Did you ever wonder why animal rights extremists get all bent out of shape when a dolphin gets caught in a tuna net, but ignores the lives of the tuna?  Look at the statistics, for every million or so tuna caught, a couple of dolphins get caught.  Big deal.  There's no concern over the poor tuna.  Aren't they cute enough?  Smart enouogh?  Don't you just love 'pick and choose' ecology?
 
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Montana rancher John Shuler shot and killed a grizzly bear when it was ripping through his flock of sheep, and about to do the same to him.  The Fish and Wildlife Service accused him of an unauthorized "taking" and fined him $7000.  Shuler challenged the FWS ruling, but a Federal judge found him guilty again, and fined him another $4000.  These people play for keeps.
 
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These animal rights nuts and eco-nazis are attempting to micromanage peace between humans and animals under the guise of restoring "natural conditions".  But this seems to creat some idiotic and bizarre eco-bureaucracy.  For example, two years ago this June, federal officials took a litter of wolf pups into "protective custody", fearing that eagles would make a quick lunch out of them.  Then a few months later, the pups were released in the wild.  A few months after that, in the same area, a hiker's dog was attacked and killed by these same wolf pups, now full grown.  But by the almighty wisdom of the Federal FWS it was dismissed as a "natural" occurrence.  But wouldn't it have been a "natural" occurrence if the eagles ate the wolf pups in order to survive.  I don't get it.
 
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Here's a crazy one.  About three years ago some animal wachos "rescued", in their words, about 40 chickens off a farm in Iowa, where they said the chickens were living under deplorable conditions.  Well, it seems like they were stuck with them since no one wanted to adopt a chicken, it's not like adopting a puppy.  A local butcher said he would take them off their hands, slaughter them, the chickens I'm talking about, and donate them to a near by homeless shelter.  The animal wachos were outraged at the butchers offer.  And still they were stuck with 40 chickens.  So what did these like-minded animal rights wachos do?  That's right. They euthanized them, that means killed them, for you people that lived on Avalon.  So the chickens were dead, no one got a good meal, but the eco-nazis were satisfied.  The chickens no longer had to live under deplorable conditions.  Do you think that chickens, with a brain the size of a grape knew they were living under deplorable conditions?  I don't think so. But I know one thing that the chickens knew.  And what's that?  That they were ALIVE.
 
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Who are these animal rights wachos? you ask.
Well, according to an Oregon State University study we now know that 78 % are women, 82% are well educated, 40% earn over $50K a year, 98% are environmental extremists, 71% have no children, I found that one interesting, and 89% average at least five pets.  Sure doesn't sound much like Burnside, nor the United States as a whole.  Sounds like a bunch of trendy, rich, pampered elitists.
 
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Here's a crazy elitist.  This woman was against bovine artificial insemination.  Why?  She said, "It robs cows of their one happy day each year".  Wow lady, how would you know?  Is that how often you get the O'sausage?
 
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A Florida shrimper happens to nab a few tutlr eggs while fishing for shrimp.  He was hauled into court for destroying the eggs.  The judge found him guilty and fined him $106,000.  The shrimper said,  "Wait a minute, these are not sea turles. these are sea turtle eggs."  "Sir", the judge relied, "they were going to be sea turtles if you didn't kill them. Guilty."  Oh, I get it.  It's against the law to crack a few sea turtle eggs, but it's not against the law to butcher unborn human babies.
 
People, friends, you'd better wake up, these eco-terrorists play for keeps.
 
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JUNE 6, 1944  -  JUNE 6, 2004
60th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion
Normandy, France
Does anyone know what the D stands for?
You'll never guess.
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