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The scare over global warming, and our politicians’ response to it, is becoming ever more bizarre. On the one hand we have the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coming up with yet another of its notoriously politicised reports, hyping up the scare by claiming that world surface temperatures have been higher in 11 of the past 12 years (1995-2006) than ever previously recorded.

This carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934.

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They investigate these foolish policies under the mythical theories of Global Warming, so instead of talking about how stupid these actions are, let’s talk about myth of Global Warming (at least how Al Gore is classifying it). 

Al is the author of the best-selling media/marketing book, On The Air and the founder and president of Preserve the American Dream, an organization dedicated to empowering all people to pursue and live the American Dream.

According to Al, “The only thing Democrats have done for the poor is to keep them in poverty. And that’s EXACTLY where they want them!”

Tune in live to hear Al’s take on:
* Why Democrats want to re-distributing wealth to those who least deserve it.
* The real reason class warfare exists – and why the Democrats benefit the most from it.
* Which of the current crop of Democratic presidential candidates benefits the most by keeping Americans poor.

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Written by Lee Ellis

Yet.  They had plenty of time to put together resolutions condeming the War on Terror and the War in Iraq.  How can a city that has continued to deteriorate take the time to put together a fruitless resolution. 

Let’s analyze the Resolution.

Resolution of the City of Richmond Opposing U.S. Military Involvement in Iraq and Iran

Whereas, current U.S. foreign policy in the middle-east is counterproductive [wait, isn’t this resolution counterproductive] with respect to the interests of the American people and the peoples of the middle-east [how about caring about the dead and victimized in your own city]; and

Whereas, the initial invasion of Iraq was based on false and misleading information about yet undiscovered “weapons of mass destruction” [you mean the evidence of dead Khurds and a leader who failed to allow inspectors to do their job] and unsubstantiated ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda in Iraq presented by the Bush Administration to the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, and the American people; and

Whereas, continued presence of the U.S. military in Iraq as an occupying army, a situation which has already gone on longer than the U.S. involvement in World War II [I guess their schools are failing too; because 1941 - 1952 (the occupying time we were in Japan) is about 11 years vs ,<5 years.  Oh I guess they wanted to play with those numbers too]- is not leading to peace and/or a stable and sovereign Iraq under the control of the people of Iraq [Haven’t they had 3 free democratic elections already?] ;and

Whereas, polls conducted by the most reputable and accurate U.S. polling organizations have shown that the vast majority of Iraqis want the United States military to leave their country; [I’m sorry, what kind of poll was this exactly?  Was it a telephone poll?  Well 28,000,000 people in Iraq and only about 1,700,000 landlines and if they answer the phone the way most Americans do then I doubt the polls are super accurate.  Maybe they went door to door] and

I have always supported the idea of Global Warming.  I also support the concept of Global Cooling.  The earth has no doubtedly been warming over the last few years; however, I have never agreed with the “sky is falling” predictions that Al Gore and his kool-aid drinkers have been putting forth.  The earth goes through cycles.  It cools.  It heats up.  There are wet years.  There are dry years.  Things work in cycles.  Now don’t get me wrong, we don’t need to step up our polluting of the atmosphere, Lord knows the earth is doing a good enough job of it with all of the volcanoes and such. 

Al Gore Wrong Again
Posted by ReasonMcLucus at 05:54 on 16 Nov 2007

On October 14, 1997, Vice President Al Gore said, “For those who argue that global warming is already changing the world’s climate, this year’s El Nino weather front is more than enough evidence”, the audience was told by Gore. In the next day, a report by the San Francisco Chronicle said: “Gore links El Nino to Global Warming”. The Vice President stated at the summit that growing frequency of El Nino episodes could be connected to the gradual heating of the atmosphere caused by emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Ten years later residents in Argentina and Brazil are wondering if this winter will ever end. Buenos Aires recorded this Thursday (November 15th) the lowest November temperature in 90 years. Temperature in the Downtown weather station reached 2.5C. Since records began more than a century ago, only two days had colder lows in November. It was in 1914 (1.6) and 1917 (2.4). And ninety years ago the urban heat island effect was much less pronounced than nowadays.  In Brazil’s southernmost province Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil temperatures fell to 2.3C.  In Sao Joaquim Monda’s (Nov., 12) the temperature was -1.2 C with frost.

At the State Bar Convention, in August, I had the opportunity of asking an attorney from the ACLU: “What’s wrong with putting a cross on a county seal?” The answer was that someone might be “offended”, as though the purpose of the Establishment Clause was to protect secular sensibilities.  This oppressive point of view led to the tearing down of the Mojave cross.  And, yet, Riverside’s own National Cemetery is home to thousands of crosses, Magen Davids, and other religious symbols on nearly every tombstone.  This brings us to the flag-folding ceremony.

I recently had to bury one of my friends there.  He was laid to rest with a solemn, moving flag- folding ceremony, performed by the American Legion.  In that ceremony, the American flag is folded thirteen times, in honor of the thirteen original American colonies.  Each fold is accompanied by a short, historical reference.  This ceremony was performed by an honor guard made up of American Legion veterans as a tribute to their fallen comrade. 

The American Legion performs the flag-folding ceremony hundreds of times a week at funerals throughout the nation’s 125 federal cemeteries.  During one of these funerals, someone found one of the folds to be offensive.  The Eleventh Fold represents the lower portion of the seal of King David and King Solomon, and glorifies the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  The Twelfth Fold represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies God the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost.  Unfortunately, the offended party had enough influence to get the White House to direct the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to direct the Director of Cemetery Administration to direct the American Legion to quit performing the ceremony as of September 27 in the Year of Our Lord (Anno Domini) 2007. 

Charles Walters, the American Legion’s parliamentarian, is telling the group to ignore the government’s order: “There are twenty-six million veterans in this country and they’re not going to take us all to prison.” He’s right.  What is the penalty for recitation during a flag folding?  What gives the federal government jurisdiction over the American Legion?  What gives the government the right to forbid a religious ceremony? 

We know what gives the American Legion the right to perform that ceremony: it’s the First Amendment.  “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, says the Constitution.  The Executive Branch has the authority to issue directives to its various departments, but there can be no federal law punishing the American Legion for ignoring that directive.  And, if the American Legion is banned: that’s an Equal Protection problem.  The bereaved have- or should have- the right to hear the ceremony of their choice by the American Legion, if they so choose.  The law, then, should tell the thin-skinned to respect the sensibilities of the not-so-thin-skinned, living and dead.

To paraphrase Justice Abe Fortas’ reality-detached statement in Tinker v. Des Moines 393 U.S. 503 (1969): the bereaved do not shed their constitutional rights at the graveyard gate.  According to the Tinker court, students have a right to wear black armbands in class, yet, somehow, the American Legion must fold in silence or use a more sanitized ritual.  Flag-burning is protected speech, according to the court in Texas v. Johnson 491 U.S. 397 (1989).  Flag-folding, apparently, is not quite as protected.  Thanks to the intervention of former ACLU attorney (now anti-ACLU attorney) Rees Lloyd, Vice-president Dick Cheney had the order rescinded.  The free exercise of religion is, for the moment, safe behind its wall of separation.

Written by Richard Reed, Esq.

Richard is originally from Texas and moved to California in 1958.  He has a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Theatre from California Baptist College and received his teaching credentials from the University of Riverside, California.  For nearly a decade he was a public school teacher in Riverside before he opened his own touring theatre company.  In 2000, he received his Juris Doctorate from California Southern Law School and today practices law.  He is a writer for the Riverside Lawyer Magazine and the Los Angeles Journal.  Additionally, he is active in Republican Politics and is an elected member of the Republican Central Committee of Riverside County. He still loves theatre and has served on the board of the Riverside Dickens Festival.

It is an honor to welcome Richard.