THE TENSION: The Decline and Fall of Western Civ for 1 May

A Mayday for this May Day:

AP reports immigration rallies held across the country Tuesday produced only a fraction of the million-plus protesters who turned out last year, as frustration that the marches haven't pushed Congress to pass reform kept many at home.

A cameraman for the NBC affiliate in Houston was captured on home video sporting a Mexican flag on his camera while covering a rally in the Texas city that supported illegal aliens, drawing angry shouts from counter-protesters, according to World Net Daily.

Why all the illegal alien hoopla? Reuters reports almost one in two Mexicans has a family member working in the United States, and a third of those were sent money in the past year, according to a survey published in Mexican daily El Universal Monday.

It seems the little green men are really not so green after all. Illegal aliens again? I won't digress further. The Times Online reports Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.

Scientists from NASA say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.

Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.
From the man who buys his dubious so-called 'carbon offsets' from a holding company he has interests in, AP reports Al Gore condemned Canada's new plan to reduce greenhouse gases, saying it was "a complete and total fraud" because it lacks specifics and gives industry a way to actually increase emissions.

Speaking of inconvenient Al, Bloomberg reports a California hotel is placing Gore's global warming book in night stands instead of Gideon Bibles. Of course, that would be a politically correct move when the politics of global warming becomes religion. You can't really expect any more from folks who confuse the facts of scientific truth with popularity contest of consensus.

In other popularity contest news, continuing to force the Democrat Congressional majority to act like they are still the minority party, AP reports President Bush Tuesday vetoed bloated legislation containing billions in pork and a time-line to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq.

We can only hope that the Democrat majority will, sooner or later, actually try to fill the big shoes Americans bestowed upon them in the last election.