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                    Driver's License For Illegal Aliens?
                           You Bet, It's A Safety Issue

   There are 14 million illegal aliens in the United States.  Most of them are driving without a Driver's License.  Is that a good idea?

   Every U.S. citizen, to drive legally, must pass a written test, an eye test, and a driving test.  Would that not be a good idea for the illegals as well? The illegals would happily take the tests, but the states will not let them.

   The pandering politicians piously proclaim, "We won't give illegals a Driver's License".   Fine don't give it to them!   Make them earn it the same as U.S. citizens have to.   Why discriminate against U.S. citizens who must take the tests?   Why give the illegals a free pass?   It makes no sense!

   We killed more than 42,000 people in the U.S. on our highways last year.  Many of them were killed in accidents caused by illegals.  Is there any reason we should continue to make this slaughter worse than it need be?

   Require the illegals to come in so we may know that they know the rules of the road, can see at least 20/40 and know how to drive safely.    Make sure they understand that the penalty for failure to obtain a license is immediate deportation. No questions asked.  No excuses allowed.  No sob stories permitted.  Just out.  Gone, now!

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 The Illegal Alien Problem: The Fair Solution

      To begin, it must be recognized that U. S. citizens and illegal aliens have a symbiotic relationship.  We absolutely depend upon each other.  Without them and their cheap labor, our prices would soar out of sight.  Inflation would hit high double digits almost immediately.  Yet without us, the aliens would be back in their poverty stricken, third world hovels.

    We absolutely must live together.   Any other idea is pure political hokum.   My plan is the fair solution to the illegal alien problem.  In can be accomplished in the following two easy steps

Step1. Seal the borders.  No plan has any hope, even this perfectly fair one, until the borders are sealed.     Whether that takes a fence, cameras, ground surveillance, or sea and air surveillance, that must come before anything else!

Step 2. Every illegal alien must register within six months.  No action will be taken against them unless they have committed crimes.  Failure to be registered after six months will be cause for immediate deportation.  No questions asked.  No excuses allowed.  No sob stories permitted.  Just out.  Gone, now!

   Every illegal alien must become a U. S. citizen within five years.  They may take the citizenship exam in the language of their choice, IF, AND ONLY IF, they have passed the Basic English Survival Exam (BESE).  The BESE will consist of several hundred words which they must be able to speak, understand, read and write.

   These words will deal with how to talk to a doctor or a policeman, report a fire or a crime.  They must know the names of the body parts, common grocery items, and how to count money.  In short they must demonstrate a minimum functioning capability in an English speaking world.

    Failure to become a U. S. citizen after five years would be cause for immediate deportation.  No questions asked.  No excuses allowed.  No sob stories permitted.  Just out.  Gone, now!

   This fair plan considers and satisfies the needs of both.  We will have a stable, cheap work force which protects us from the ravages of inflation and they will get stable, deportation proof jobs making many times the money they made in their country of origin.  This plan is a win-win for everyone and for everyone it is perfectly fair.

deegragg@yahoo.com

                    Hillary Clinton To Divorce Bill

 

   If Barack Obama wins the presidency in November, and he certainly will, Hillary will divorce Bill in 2009.  Obama will become president for two fundamental reasons.

 

   (1)  The Super Delegates will not dare steal the nomination from Obama and give it to Hillary.  That would split the party and give the presidency to McCain—which is the only way he can win it.

 

   (2)  McCain cannot find enough Americans that will vote to continue killing our brave troops for 10 more years in the Civil War in Iraq.

 

   With Obama entrenched in the White House, Hillary would not have another chance to run again for eight more years.   Sadly, by then this brilliant woman will be, too dated, too establishment connected and too old to ever run for the presidency again.

 

   But this cloud will have a silver lining.  She can now dump Bill.  She has held on to this narcissistic, womanizing, perjurer because she felt she had to have him to make the presidential run.

 

  This impeached, piece of pond scum  turned out to be a mixed bag at best.  His fund raising skills were less than hers.  The famous Clinton Machine was badly beaten by an absolute new comer to the presidential scene.  The Clinton people made continuous gaffs and miscalculations.  But worst of all, Bill’s uncontrollable mouth caused continuous turmoil in the campaign.

 

   Hillary will then be able to get back to serving the people of New York, a job she loves and is very skilled at.  Who knows, perhaps there is a worthy, true love out there for her somewhere.

 

   So for my first prediction for 2009:

 

Hillary will divorce Bill in 2009

 

     Remember, you heard it here first!

 

(My predictions for 2008 are also contained in this blog.)

What Your Basketball Sportscaster

                           Doesn't Want You To Know!!

    Your basketball sportscaster doesn’t want you to know that virtually every basketball game is decided long before it becomes obvious.   Why doesn’t he want you to know?  He has a built in conflict of interest.

    If you knew the game was over, you would stop listening and his sponsor would sell less soap, beer, Viagra, or whatever.  It is simply a matter of money.  It is his job to keep you interested until the last second.  It really  doesn’t matter to him that the game was decided long ago.

    Well, if you buy into that, fine.  But if you don’t there is a simple way to determine the winner well ahead of time.  Here  are the three simple steps that you can learn quickly and remember easily.

1. Round the game clock up to the next whole minute. 

2. Double that number.

3. Add 1.

   Let’s take an example to be sure you have the concept.

1. Say the game clock shows 3:14, round that up to 4.0

2. Double it.  That is, 2 times 4 equals 8.

3. Add 1.  That is, 8 plus 1 equals 9.

  That’s it.  When a team possesses the ball and is leading by 9 points they will win the game with a “high degree of reliability”^*.

    In case you need a little extra assistance, here is a simple table to help.  Remember that the winning team must have the ball at the time the win is declared.

   ^*In “statistics-speak”, they will win with a minimum reliability of 98.7 per cent at the 90 percent confidence level.  In “human-speak”, this system will fail about one time in a hundred.  A complete documentation of my research is contained in the Articles section of this site.

Copyright 2008 by C. D. Gragg, All rights reserved, Legal Notice

Predictions For 2008
 

   I have no known physic capabilities.  However, I have often noted in the past that, within my limits, I can predict the future.  Here are my FEARLESS predictions for 2008.

Prediction 1.  The Democrats will have a majority in both houses of congress and will win the presidency.  They will still complain about not having enough power to enact legislation.

Prediction 2.  A huge jet will not crash into the Empire State Building causing 1,564 fatalities.  Home Land Security will claim credit for the nonevent.

Prediction 3. Although there is a striking resemblance, David Letterman will not be replaced by a Japanese robot.

Prediction 4. Despite the hand-wringing, political posturing and finger pointing, Social Security will remain solid as a rock.

Pediction 5. A UFO will not land on the White House lawn.  However more than 150 UFO sightings each month will be reported to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network).

Prediction 6.  Chris Angel will not levitate a broom for Ann Coulter to ride out of town.

Prediction 7.  Mexico will not declare  war on the United States .   Possibly losing the opportunity for repatriations, Marshall Plan, Lend Lease, Favorite Nation Status and priority immigration status for its people.

Prediction 8.  A speeding passenger train will not crash into the Mississippi River drowning 453 passengers. Home Land Security will take credit for the nonevent.

Prediction 9. In spite of their wobbly high heels, all of the Miss America contestants will successfully walk across the stage with out a single one falling on her butt.

Prediction 10.  President Bush will not run for a third term.  In a related event, he will not suspend the Constitution, dissolve the Congress and declare himself President-For-Life.

   You will please note that I have given specific names, events and places.  Further, I will revisit my predictions at the end of the year and give you my accuracy percentage.  I dare, make that double-dog dare, any physic in America do the same.

Copyright 2007 and 2008 by C. D. Gragg, All rights reserved

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Ban The Penny And The Nickel Too

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     Have we gone utterly mad? Is anyone paying attention? We are still using the same Lincoln Head penny that was first issued in 1909. We carry it around in our coin purses, pockets, and change makers, and have it clogging up our cash registers as if it had some value. It doesn’t.

     Of course it formerly had some value in the good old days. Time was when you could buy a penny post card with it. Then you could write mama from Nashville to tell her how great your singing career was going. Or if you preferred to not let everyone know how your career was going, you could use three pennies and buy a 3-cent stamp and send a letter.

     Those days are gone forever. They are not coming back. Today if you want to buy a 3-cent stamp it will cost you 33 cents. Yes, 11 times as much as when the penny had some value. And that’s not bad, our postal workers have to have a living wage too. What is bad is our unyielding grip on the past.

     This sentimental anarchism of days long gone is not free. There were more than 11 billion pennies produced just last year. That's up more than a billion from 1998. These useless little coppers cost  millions of dollars to produce. They are heavy and they take up space every where: in cash registers, coin purses, my pocket, and your dresser top, which was already cluttered enough.

     Do we need them for anything? Absolutely not. Without them we would do the same thing we now do for half cents. We would round up or down. Instead of rounding up from $49.13 & 1/2; cents to $49.14 cents we would round down to $49.10 cents. Or we would round $49.16 & 1/2; up to $49.20 instead of $49.17. Would this cause any concern? Are you kidding; we wouldn't even notice it except for a loss of clutter in our lives.

     But let's go further. Everything we have just agreed upon for the penny goes double for the nickel. When is the last time you got a nickel ice cream cone for a nickel? My last one cost $1.05. That's 21 nickels.

     This large, awkward coin takes up even more space than the penny. At first it might seem to have a worth five times that of the penny. This is simply an illusion. Remember your ninth grade algebra. A penny is worth nothing and five times nothing is still nothing.

     But it is not nothing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year producing and distributing them. That large sucking sound is your tax dollars going down a very large rat hole. We don't need more government waste. We already have more government waste than we will really ever need. It is past time to bring this sentimental, expensive, extravagance to a halt. Ban the penny and the nickel too.

So what do you think?    

Copyright 2007 and 2008 by C. D. Gragg, All rights reserved