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Conservatives Against Corn

2.19.08 @ 12:01AM

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Will the fence, if we ever get it, go as far underground as it goes up? Because we will need it to stop the tunnelers! Does anyone remember the movie Paint Your Wagon, where an entire mining town collapsed due to Lee Marvin's enterprising tunneling to get to the gold dust under the saloon? That will be California in a few years.

Meanwhile, we have just separated the Patriots from the Stingy Border Land Owners. I can hear it now. "Well, would you want your view spoiled by an ugly fence? Would you want to sell off some prime land for cents on the dollar?" You hear a lot of "fought at the Alamo" that goes with this lament. The Alamo would have had to be as big as the Cotton Bowl stadium to have accommodated all the ancestors who fought there.

I only own the land my house sits on, but the perimeters have easements, which means although I pay taxes on that portion of my "land," I cannot put a fence on it or anything else that might conflict with whatever utility company has first call. Any time I want more land, I go buy it by the sack. I call it potting soil.

I guess the more land you own, the more Entitled you feel! No one ever went broke underestimating the greediness of a Big Land Owner. Lyndon Johnsson's mother put it best, "I only want my land and that which adjoins it."

Happy Trails,
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

AWFUL AUTOCRAT
Re: George H. Wittman's Icon-in-Chief:

Had Putin wanted to secure a place in history, he would have let the people rule him. Because he chose, instead, to do the opposite, he will go down as simply another in the long line of grasping, growling Russian autocrats.
-- David Govett
Davis, California

THE STEROID KING
Re: Michael Brendan Dougherty's The Waxman Cometh:

How can any one write an article on steroids and HGH and not bring up the name of the "Governator" who brought them to public prominence and popularity.

Everybody now knows that they are the magic road to success. One can become a movie star and get rich. One can marry into prominent families. One can go into politics and become politically powerful. They even increase one's brainpower. One can make trips to national events and lecture about the dangers of global warming and people listen, awestruck, to every word.

It's obvious that Waxman never took them or he would never have been foolish or ignorant enough to have that silly hearing!
-- Bob Keiser
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

MR. SMITH GOES TO JAIL
Re: Jeffrey Lawrence's letter (under "The Mormon Spectator") in Reader Mail's Roger That:

Mr. Lawrence, I believe that you misunderstand my point about Joseph Smith. It was not an attempt to justify his lynching, which I think I pointed out in my original letter, it was to refute the idea that Joseph Smith was some innocent little lamb. I well know that Joseph Smith had neither been tried nor convicted of a crime, but he had been arrested for a very serious crime that the historical record quite clearly indicates he was guilty of. He and Hyrum did swear out false affidavits that denied their practice of plural marriage and adultery, when the truth was that Joseph Smith had been practicing polygamy in secret for nearly a year! Joseph did destroy The Nauvoo Expositor for the "crime" of exposing his polygamy to the public, and he did commit the crime of treason by calling out the Nauvoo militia to protect him from arrest. It was not a justification for his murder by mob, but spare me the weepy eyed crap about how innocent Joseph Smith was. Even if the government of Missouri was "persecuting" Joseph and the Mormons, they were no innocents in the escalating tensions within the state

Many Mormons like to claim that Joseph Smith went to prison for his belief, but he went to prison for denying what he called a "new and everlasting covenant" that was essential to exaltation. He was arrested for his persecution of those that opposed and exposed his polygamous practices, and he died in a blazing gun battle in which he killed at least two of his attackers and wounded another. While the people who attacked the jail and murdered Joseph and Hyrum Smith committed a despicable crime, don't bring that story about Joseph's innocence to me because the historical record tells the true story. And if you are so worried about due process, then why weren't the leaders of the Church concerned when they were perjuring themselves in an effort to destroy a newspaper that dared criticize them?
-- Eric Edwards
Walnut Cove, North Carolina

MAD ABOUT SAD
Re: Richard Morlock's letter (under "It's Always a Few Years Away") in Reader Mail's Roger That:

It's a hoot, that quote of "sad, truly sad" in Richard Morlock's little note at the end of yesterday's letters.

Innuendos and no facts. But that's pretty much typical of those who'd advance his cause(s), never anything even close to offering proof of his claim.
-- Jack Frost

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