Bear in mind that our Constitution was designed not for government to control the people but for the people to control the government. Elect representation that respects this truth.

By A. V. Horton
2-21-02

The IRS is telling the taxpayers "Don’t be confused". Some accountants are telling clients that whoever says the government has hoaxed the taxpayers is mistaken. The news media is saying that there are errors in the tax preparation software packages.

Be sure you understand who these people are:

The IRS are those who are in charge of extracting your hard earned money from you so that the politicians can spend most of it recklessly on flawed programs designed by liberals.

Accountants are the direct beneficiaries of the income tax law that provides for you and I to do the governments work each year and pay for the privilege. The Income Tax Law, if named honestly, would be called "The Accountants and Lawyers Relief Act of 1913".

The news media, as usual, has the job of spinning the facts so that the natives don’t get restless. Restless natives can be a real problem, you know.

The cruel facts are exactly as set out in "This One is UGLY". The politicians told us that there was to be a rebate to return previous tax money to those that over-paid. The IRS sent checks, last fall, in the amount of typically $300 or $600 depending on your marital status. Today, we find that the checks were only an advance payment on your 2001 tax refund and WILL be recovered by the government on April 15, 2002. The IRS has a lengthy explanation on their website (www.irs.gov) about how to handle the "Tax Reduction Credit" on the tax forms interestingly, you are to insert the rebate amount only if you did not get it. Quite backwards to the way things are typically handled on a tax form. This, of course causes enough confusion that people will get submerged in the form and forget to address what the numbers really mean. In the off chance that all this does not quell the riot, then we can blame the tax prep software people for "errors". Their error, in the eyes of your government, was to state in clear and concise terms that the payment of last fall was an advance on your refund for 2001 taxes a fact that probably was not intended for public consumption.

If you still are doubtful, simply run the numbers both ways and watch how your tax refund or tax bill moves. If you don’t want to do it by hand, invest $15-20 in one of the programs and do it there. The government taps you for thousands each year - $15 to $20 is a minor investment in the overall scheme of things. By the way, if you use an accountant, it may be interesting hear how he/she responds to a query about this matter.

This One is UGLY
Your Tax Rebate is a HOAX

By A. V. Horton
2-16-02

There is simply no way to dress this scam up so it will be acceptable – YOUR DULY ELECTED POLITICIANS IN YOUR GOVERNMENT LIE TO YOU!!!! Oh yes, we are aware that the American citizens have become immune to governmental lies – that is just how it is these days.

Late last summer or early fall the IRS probably sent you a check and you will remember that the politicians proudly announced that more taxes had been collected than were needed so they were going to do the right and fair thing by returning money to all of us that had paid. Typical checks were either $300 or $600 and they called it a "Tax Rebate". You will recall that there was a glaring lack of definition about how the size of the check was determined – everyone got the same amount with only minor exceptions. This impressed us as strange at the time because it seems that such a rebate would be tied to something (for example, your average tax payments over two or three years).

Latch your seat belt boys and girls – On April 15, 2002 you will be required to return the exact amount of that rebate check to the IRS. This little fact is cleverly buried in the tax forms for tax year 2001. That $300 to $600 check was only an advance on your 2001 refund and will be deducted from the refund that you will actually receive. In the event that you still owe more taxes for 2001, the $300 to $600 will be added to your bill. To demonstrate the details of this scam to yourself, run your 2001 tax forms twice – first with the rebate check amount included and then without. This is easy to do using one of the packaged computer programs that only cost $15-20 (be sure to use the 2001 version). You will note that the rebate amount does not appear in the final tax forms – only in the worksheets!

We now know why there was no need to tie the rebate amount to anything – it was a simple hoax. It is hard to believe the level of blatant impropriety that we face in our own government. Hopefully, you did not spend the "rebate" too recklessly – they will get it back on April 15.

By AB Dawson   02/14/2002

Today very early, the house voted to pass a clearly unconstitutional campaign finance bill.

Voting yes were 198 Democrats, 41 Republicans and one independent.

Coming close and on the heels of the Enron debacle, which in part is credited with the push that made the bill garner the many Republican votes that helped pass the bill.

The bill in this writers view is clearly unconstitutional and as Rush said yesterday, is nothing more than a incumbent protection bill.

It is also this writers view that ANYONE THAT VOTED FOR THIS BILL knew that it was unconstitutional and did so anyway, in clear violation of his or her oath.

It is therefore necessary to ask for the immediate resignation of all those who voted for this incumbent protection act and if they do not, to say to these congress people, "Your terms in office are clearly now limited."

Americans should stand as one and say "You don’t stand for the constitution, you will not stand for us."

The message is: Vote em out. Any one voting for this unconstitutional bill should be history at the start of the next convening congress.

A Quote from Rep. Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk Column from February 4, 2002
"The so-called reform legislation being proposed is clearly unconstitutional. The First amendment unquestionably grants individuals and businesses the free and unfettered right to advertise, lobby, and contribute to politicians as they choose. More importantly, the Constitution does not grant Congress the power to regulate campaigns. In fact, article II expressly authorizes the regulation of elections, so the omission of campaigns is glaring. While some in the media have raised First amendment questions, few seem to understand that Congress clearly lacks the constitutional power to regulate campaigns at all."

Full-Text of H. R. 2356, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2001

Full-Text of H. R. 380, the Shays-Meehan Campaign Reform Act of 2001

Cosponsors of H. R. 380 (164 cosponsors as of Feb. 6, 2002)

Take that deep breath and go back with me to Houston, Texas last week. The remains of tropical storm Allison was thundering around the Texas Gulf Coast – please pardon the pun. This storm system covered an area of about 100 by 100 miles, or 10,000 square miles. Repeatedly, over several days, it dumped rainfall at the rate of between 0.5 and 5.0 inches per hour. For sake of discussion lets deal with an average of 1.0 inch per hour. That rate is a very heavy rain but not unusual in coastal/tropical regions. During such a rainfall period the water dropping out of the skies amounts to 500 gallons per minute over each acre and there are 640 acres in each square mile. My arithmetic says that the total water appearing is 3200 million gallons each minute or 192,000,000,000 (192 billion) gallons per hour. We now are beginning to understand why so many people moved to the roof-tops after Allison sat nearly stationary for three days.

How does this occur? Allison was a deep low-pressure region that causes the atmospheric circulation to rotate counter-clockwise about the low center. The storm center was southwest of Houston providing a flow connection to the Gulf of Mexico. The rotating atmospheric flow moved over the Gulf waters that were about 81F. The water vaporized into the moving air mass and traveled around the east and north sides of Houston – dumping the water all the way.

How much energy was involved in simply vaporizing gulf water or recondensing it as the Houston flooding rain. This energy exchange amounts to 1,520,000,000,000,000 (1520 trillion) BTUs per hour for the average 1.0 inch per hour rain over the 100 by 100 mile area. This only addresses the vaporization or subsequent condensation – no consideration of the energy required to move the air mass is included.

Those are big numbers – how much energy is that in simpler terms? Oil and oil products when burned generate about 6.25 million BTU per barrel. The storm energy discussed above amounts to burning over 243 million barrels of oil every hour – that is over 16 days of the total U.S. crude oil consumption……each one inch rainfall hour!

The Apostate Judge

Save the Planet??

By A. V. Horton

I had the opportunity to visit the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell recently. I found it to be a very impressive project, indeed! The initial work on preparation of the canyon walls for the dam was started in 1956. Concrete for the main structure was continuously poured over three years and three months between 1960 and 1963. In 1980, 17 years later, the lake behind the dam was finally full. An improved Colorado River water management system resulted along with 1320 million mega-watts of hydroelectric generating capacity (eight 165 MW generators) and a National Recreation Area that hosts 2.4 million visitors each year. The lake is 186 miles long and has a water surface of 266 square miles when full. The shoreline is 1960 miles – longer that our Pacific Coast. The water depth is 580 feet at the deepest point directly behind the dam.

The environmental nut cases are doing their saving the planet thing. It seems that they have advertised the Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell project as their "showcase for environmental destruction" since it’s beginning. When you visit the dam you may take a tour but you can not take anything with you such as a purse, a backpack, a brief case, etc. This is because the nut cases have repeatedly threatened to blow up the dam!!! Somehow, wrecking the dam and dumping 26 million acre-feet of water down the canyon below toward the Grand Canyon doesn’t impress this writer as a particularly sound endeavor. There is a barrier in the lake above the dam about 300-400 yards back to prevent boats from approaching the dam for the same reason.

In an apparent appeasement of the nuts, we are saving water – the men’s room in the Visitor Center has flushless facilities complete with signs, in about six languages, proudly proclaiming that we are saving 2,500,000 liters per year (that works out to about 1.25 gallons per minute in trade for bad smells). Don’t know about the ladies since I did not visit there. The hotels urge you to use linens recycled without laundry and provide the now customary limited flush that won’t get it done in order to say that we save water. When the tour got to the lower levels of the dam we learned that lake water continuously seeps through the cracks and crevices of the canyon walls at a rate of 2600 gallons per minute – all collected and repumped. The peak water flow through the generators is about 33,000 cubic feet per second. Additionally, 2-3% of the lake volume is lost to evaporation each year – another huge number. Why not go ahead and flush and run the laundry??

No doubt, there is some impressive canyon scenery now covered by the lake water. Meanwhile, there remains an astounding amount above the lake and, because the lake exists, you can conveniently visit and enjoy it. Previously, you were in for a tough several day hike and most of us did not do it. I recommend you see it when you have the opportunity.

Comment by A. V. Horton
08/28/99

Take a close look at the news item below – Published on August 27. These staffers are working for Members of the Progressive Caucus!! Read our article on the Progressive Caucus and realize that the subversives are trying to hook up with Iraq in some form or fashion disguised as a humanitarian mission. Willie expresses "concern" but the trip is not blocked – lame positions still violently boil in DC.

AB Dawson

The recent Shootings at the Jewish Community Center in Ca. are another call to arms … ah … NO arms by the anti gun crowd. After the alleged shooter, Buford O'Neal Furrow, walked in and sprayed the hall with gunfire. Seriously injuring several children, he disappeared to Nevada.

Furrow Turned himself in Thursday, saying that he was the one that killed the kids in Los Angeles. This then leaves no doubt that, yes, he intended to kill many children. Why? Because he wanted his act to be "a wake-up call to America to kill Jews." Yup, it’s a hate crime all right, although it was still hateful enough before the anti-Semite stuff. Boy, that new hate crimes law really put the "fear of God" in him all right! Let’s see, that new law was supposed to be some kind of deterrent, … right ??

The most ironic twist of fate in this whole sad event was the comments of the director of the Jewish Community Center. He said something had to be done about guns. Meaning of course that the government must pass even more laws to be disregarded by bad people. Of course this is the very thing that the German Jews were forced to do prior to World War II.

In a nutshell, the German citizens freely elected to register their firearms prior to the Nazi takeover. The Nazis then proceeded not to renew the permits that they inherited. The Nazi weapons law stated that no Jew could be involved in any business involving firearms. Subsequent laws barred Jews from owning any weapons. When the Jews were totally disarmed the Nazis fearing no retaliation, proceeded to exterminate them with impunity. This was Tyranny at its worst.

One would think that this lesson would have never been forgotten especially by a fellow Jew, a Rabbi at that!! But sadly this is not the case. He wants to give up his arms after a NAZI tries to kill Jewish children before his very eyes!!

What's wrong with this picture ? Clearly if you give up your rights to defend yourself you are saying to all the bad people, "hey, I’m unarmed I can’t defend myself." Of course the bad guys are not going to have any guns either … right ??

Someone from the old west said "It’s a polite society when everyone has a 44 strapped to his belt." I tend to agree. Violent crimes have dropped significantly in states that have concealed carry laws. Even a stupid criminal can do the math. "Hummm … My victim might have a gun, I don’t know for sure if I’ll escape or die."

A polite society for sure …