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Jeffrey C. Handshaw's Opinion and Facts webpage with Wisdom for all (nfn17353@naples.net)

Wise Words By Jeff

Facts
Ozone Layer The ozone layer is NOT "decaying", and it never will unless the percentage of oxygen in our air decreases and only then. Facts:

Only lighter gases can rise into the upper atmosphere, refrigerant gases are very, very heavy (so heavy they sink to the floor).
Natural causes (eg: volcanoes) expel more carbon gases than human kind ever can.
The patent on refrigerant gases is expiring, the "gas" business needed a new patent, while outlawing the expired patent.
It has been said that the gases that escape take 20 years to reach the upper atmosphere (to decay the ozone) therefore if we are destroying the ozone layer then we are already too late to save it since the majority of the gases have been created in recent history and can't be stopped (we should be creating replacement ozone instead). It just doesn't make sense!
The ozone is created by sunlight, and as long at the sun shines and there is oxygen in the air we will have ozone.
The sun creates as much ozone as possible, as the ozone concentration increases the creation is inhibited by the ozone itself.
The ONLY way ozone could go away (or decrease it's concentration) is if the %age of Oxygen in the air decreased (then we'd be in trouble!)

Politics
Alan Keyes knows what he is talking about, check out his views
Vote Republican to change the face of politics as we never thought possible!
The "new" Republican's are trying to change the face of politics (like Perot proposed to do), while President Clinton vetos everything!
The "new" Republican Congress and Senate did more in the 1st year, that the Democrates did in the 10 years previously!
And what was done/passed was all significant legislation that the Democrates only gave mouth service to (for the press). then defeated themselves
I can't believe how people can believe the outright lies that the Democrates put forward solely for their political survival!
Worst of all how the press prints the lies as facts. I thought that the free press was suppose to search for the facts not print easy lies
President Clinton has many stands on every issue depending on which stand will make him look good today, but does nothing (thank god!).
Many of President Clinton's stands on issues have stole directly from the Republican adjenda and the Revolutionary Contract with America.
Although the Democrates lie to try to convince us otherwise, the Republicans are NOT cutting or eliminating anything:
The budgets the Republicans put forth did NOT cut anything, they mearly reduced the bloated growth of each program.
The Republicans have never proposed getting rid of anything (Social Security/Welfare/School Lunch),
only reorganizing them to be more efficient, sending them to the state level (out of the reach of the inefficient Federal money machine)
Quote from Ben Bova (Naples author, who wrote "Mars"), from the Naples Daily News 8/10/96:
In reference to Clinton convening a space summit, Bova said "given Clinton's propensity for cutting the NASA budget, that is one scene he could have done without"..."For him to come rushing out into the Rose Garden and kind of take credit for this really stuck in my craw. And I'm a Democrat."
In Clinton's 1995 State of the Nation Address he proposed a $500 tax cut for each child, this was already part of the Republican "Contract with America", just one of many Republican ideas that the Democrates tryed to take credit for.