All You Need to Know

All you need to know about the following:

Fidel's communist Cuba shoots citizens trying to leave.

Mexico shoots people crossing its southern border.

China's slave labor camps produce gadgets sold in big box stores in the USA.

Taiwan has not asked us for money or assistance in half a century.

Wal-Mart surreptitiously buys life insurance policies on a select few employees without the employees' knowledge. These "dead peasant" insurance policies are an additional source of revenue for the popular giant.

IRS enforces an income tax law that is voluntary as written and signed. The IRS tax chief in Phoenix told KDWN radio in Las Vegas, "The income tax is voluntary, but if you don't volunteer, we will prosecute you."

Fluoridation of municipal water uses sodium fluoride, a well-known rat poison.

Great Britain will do whatever we ask them to do.

Israel bulldozes the homes of relatives of terrorist suspects - more than 4,000 so far. The Israel Supreme Court approved of both the army's torturing of suspects and use of human shields (Palestinians) in hostile search operations.

Palestine - until recently, graduates more doctors, teachers and engineers than any nation in the Middle East.

Florida - humidity

Congresspersons - they set their own salaries

CIA - won't discuss drug traffic and murder activities

Federal Reserve System - never been audited

Singapore - cleanliness is mandated

South Africa - race bias against whites

India - coming on strong in commerce

Germany and France - yesterday, life was such an easy game to play

USA - everyone wants to live here



Thoughts While Jaywalking

* No St. George smog report today - can't see out.

* Today's front page of the chain newspaper in St. George resembles a metropolitan paper: Deputy pleads guilty in sex scandal, and city treasurer of Santa Clara accused of embezzlement.

* The Bush administration has snubbed the president of Taiwan by denying access for stop-overs in New York and San Francisco. Taiwan, long a friend and an ally, deserve better treatment than we give Communist China, but it's the other way around.

* Reports come in here of spottings of middle class people seen on the streets of St. George. I'll believe it when I see it, although there might be one or two, here and there.

* Senator Bob Bennett brags that the Bush tax cuts have boosted the economy. Well, Bob, that's what tax cuts do. The money sent into the economy creates new demands and suppliers. But the price is that the interest on the money (which has to be borrowed) represents a new cost which has to be paid and the dollar will be devaluated even further. Tax cuts defy reason without reduced spending. People should know, too, that the tax cuts went to the top levels of income earners. The rich actually did get richer; the poor did get poorer. The middle class? You don't have them to kick around anymore, Bob.

* Convicted conspirator Zacarius Moussaoui got a life sentence instead of death. (The news almost killed Sean Hannity.) The bad guy has no police record, never committed a crime, but went to jail for what he's thinking. That could set a precedent resulting in a more totalitarian state.

* Thanks to THE SPECTRUM for furnishing us with front page details on the deviant and gross sex crimes of a deputy at the Purgatory Correctional Facility. I guess that's what community newspapers are for. Oh, it's a chain newspaper!

* Twenty-years-from-now news: Dixie has more roundabouts than snowbirds.


IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE