Judicial Watch today released its 2009 list of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians."
Here’s the list: it’s a good one…. and yes, there is a republican on it.
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 "Ten Most Corrupt" list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him. In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat. In 2009, Judicial Watch filed a Senate ethics complaint against Dodd for undervaluing a property he owns in Ireland on his Senate Financial Disclosure forms. Judicial Watch's complaint forced Dodd to amend the forms. However, press reports suggest the property to this day remains undervalued. Judicial Watch also alleges in the complaint that Dodd obtained a sweetheart deal for the property in exchange for his assistance in obtaining a presidential pardon (during the Clinton administration) and other favors for a long-time friend and business associate. The false financial disclosure forms were part of the cover-up. Dodd remains the head the Senate Banking Committee.
President Barack Obama: During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration "lowlights" from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's scheme to sell the President's former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.) Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch's Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires. The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade "artists" to promote the Obama agenda. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the idea emerged as a direct result of the Obama campaign and enjoyed White House approval and participation. President Obama has installed a record number of "czars" in positions of power. Too many of these individuals are leftist radicals who answer to no one but the president. And too many of the czars are not subject to Senate confirmation (which raises serious constitutional questions). Under the President's bailout schemes, the federal government continues to appropriate or control -- through fiat and threats -- large sectors of the private economy, prompting conservative columnist George Will to write: "The administration's central activity -- the political allocation of wealth and opportunity -- is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption." Government-run healthcare and car companies, White House coercion, uninvestigated ACORN corruption, debasing his office to help Chicago cronies, attacks on conservative media and the private sector, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors – this is Obama's "ethics" record -- and we haven't even gotten through the first year of his presidency.
December 30, 2009
"I Promise, I will Never Die".................
In light of the Senate and House both passing Healthcare Reform, I must reflect on what this “Historic” passage really is. The bills are more historic in the underhanded tactics used to pass them then they are in providing health care. A series of political bribes and closed door meetings, culminating in 2,000 pages of craptastic debt. The bill is not about health care, or the well being of Americans. It is about politics--plain and simple--nothing more.
The whole thing is about passing just about ANYTHING to keep appearances and maintain the illusion of Democrat lead progress . After all, why worry about legislation having a negative effect when it is not even implemented until after the 2012 election?
Think about the process of this reform: the rush to pass it-- the self imposed deadlines (august recess, labor Day, December 1, and finally Christmas). Why the Rush? None of the programs are even implemented for 4 more years. Nearly every Senate and House member questioned about it admits to not having read the bills. Yet supporters for it, and protesters against it, are vehement in their stance.
Thomas Sowell Writes: “The only rational explanation for such haste to pass a bill that will be slow to go into effect is to prevent the public from knowing what is in this massive legislation. That is also the only reason that makes sense for postponing the time when Obamacare goes into action after the next presidential election.”
It’s all politics people. America doesn’t want the government to run healthcare, but everyone wants something for nothing, and politicians want to be the ones to provide it. Obama continues to ramble that we cannot afford NOT to address healthcare, and he’s right. Our healthcare system is too expensive and insurance costs are far too high. But Obama’s legislation does not, in any way, address the cost of health care. It is an insurance bill. Simply paying less for healthcare won’t mean we have cheaper healthcare. More likely, it will mean we have a lower supply of doctors, medical supplies, and technology advancements. The government tried Medicare and its going bankrupt faster then they ever imagined it would. They tried Social Security, same thing. Medicaid, Veterans care, and on down the line. Why would any person want them to handle this? It is a political ploy that is going to cost us in quality care and supply, not to mention increase our debt. It is another glaring example of how self-interested and diluted our politicians have become. Willing to pass such a terrible piece of legislation because the pundits say they have to.
Where’s the promised bipartisanship? Where is the Promised Transparency? Where is the promised 3 day internet posting of the bill? Where is the Bill? The media is too busy writing stories about how hard it is being Obama to actually think about what is going on We have more news coverage about Sarah Palin’s vacation trips, then we do criticizing this process. They have hidden this bill from the beginning, finally passing it on Christmas eve to avoid the attention of the public. We are being force fed a bowl of crap, so that Democrats can hang their hat on something for next election. The really depressing thing about it is that Obama admits that this is just a first step. So, we are going to have to listen to this debate for years and years to come.
“In a sense, this administration is only the end result of a long social process that includes raising successive generations with dumbed-down education in schools and colleges that have become indoctrination centers for the visions of the left. Our education system has turned out many people who have never heard any other vision and who can only learn what is wrong with the prevailing vision from bitter experience." -Sowell-
The whole thing is about passing just about ANYTHING to keep appearances and maintain the illusion of Democrat lead progress . After all, why worry about legislation having a negative effect when it is not even implemented until after the 2012 election?
Think about the process of this reform: the rush to pass it-- the self imposed deadlines (august recess, labor Day, December 1, and finally Christmas). Why the Rush? None of the programs are even implemented for 4 more years. Nearly every Senate and House member questioned about it admits to not having read the bills. Yet supporters for it, and protesters against it, are vehement in their stance.
Thomas Sowell Writes: “The only rational explanation for such haste to pass a bill that will be slow to go into effect is to prevent the public from knowing what is in this massive legislation. That is also the only reason that makes sense for postponing the time when Obamacare goes into action after the next presidential election.”
It’s all politics people. America doesn’t want the government to run healthcare, but everyone wants something for nothing, and politicians want to be the ones to provide it. Obama continues to ramble that we cannot afford NOT to address healthcare, and he’s right. Our healthcare system is too expensive and insurance costs are far too high. But Obama’s legislation does not, in any way, address the cost of health care. It is an insurance bill. Simply paying less for healthcare won’t mean we have cheaper healthcare. More likely, it will mean we have a lower supply of doctors, medical supplies, and technology advancements. The government tried Medicare and its going bankrupt faster then they ever imagined it would. They tried Social Security, same thing. Medicaid, Veterans care, and on down the line. Why would any person want them to handle this? It is a political ploy that is going to cost us in quality care and supply, not to mention increase our debt. It is another glaring example of how self-interested and diluted our politicians have become. Willing to pass such a terrible piece of legislation because the pundits say they have to.
Where’s the promised bipartisanship? Where is the Promised Transparency? Where is the promised 3 day internet posting of the bill? Where is the Bill? The media is too busy writing stories about how hard it is being Obama to actually think about what is going on We have more news coverage about Sarah Palin’s vacation trips, then we do criticizing this process. They have hidden this bill from the beginning, finally passing it on Christmas eve to avoid the attention of the public. We are being force fed a bowl of crap, so that Democrats can hang their hat on something for next election. The really depressing thing about it is that Obama admits that this is just a first step. So, we are going to have to listen to this debate for years and years to come.
“In a sense, this administration is only the end result of a long social process that includes raising successive generations with dumbed-down education in schools and colleges that have become indoctrination centers for the visions of the left. Our education system has turned out many people who have never heard any other vision and who can only learn what is wrong with the prevailing vision from bitter experience." -Sowell-
December 28, 2009
ridiculious
I received this forward from a friend of mine last week. It is just another example of the complete lack of character and accountability in our government. There is no common sense involved in these decisions. It is all about who you know.....and in this case, what color skin you have.
Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member
You can't make up stuff better than this!
Isn't politics grand?
Jesse Jackson's Newest Staff Member
Mel Reynolds
Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat
Congressman Mel to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll.
Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused
in President Clinton's
last-minute forgiveness spree.
Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year
federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud,
and lies to the Federal Election Commission.
He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving
five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.
This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had
sex with a subordinate...won clemency from a president who had
sex with a subordinate...then was hired by a clergyman who had
sex with a subordinate!
His new job?
Ready for this??
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***** YOUTH COUNSELOR *****
IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT?
December 23, 2009
The Science Mantra
By Thomas Sowell
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable.
Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels distinguished their own brand of socialism as "scientific socialism." By the 20th century, all sorts of notions wrapped themselves in the mantle of "science."
"Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science." The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals, suggests that the disinterested search for truth-- the hallmark of real science-- has taken a back seat to a political crusade.
An intercepted e-mail from a professor at the Climate Research Unit in England to a professor at the University of Pennsylvania warned the latter: "Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act" and urged the American professor to delete any e-mails he may have sent a colleague regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
When a business accused of fraud begins shredding its memos and deleting its e-mails, the media are quick to proclaim these actions as signs of guilt. But, after the global warming advocates began a systematic destruction of evidence, the big television networks went for days without even reporting these facts, much less commenting on them.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Science is one of the great achievements of the human mind and the biggest reason why we live not only longer but more vigorously in our old age, in addition to all the ways in which it provides us with things that make life easier and more enjoyable.
Like anything valuable, science has been seized upon by politicians and ideologues, and used to forward their own agendas. This started long ago, as far back as the 18th century, when the Marquis de Condorcet coined the term "social science" to describe various theories he favored. In the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels distinguished their own brand of socialism as "scientific socialism." By the 20th century, all sorts of notions wrapped themselves in the mantle of "science."
"Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science." The recently revealed destruction of raw data at the bottom of the global warming hysteria, as well as revelations of attempts to prevent critics of this hysteria from being published in leading journals, suggests that the disinterested search for truth-- the hallmark of real science-- has taken a back seat to a political crusade.
An intercepted e-mail from a professor at the Climate Research Unit in England to a professor at the University of Pennsylvania warned the latter: "Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act" and urged the American professor to delete any e-mails he may have sent a colleague regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
When a business accused of fraud begins shredding its memos and deleting its e-mails, the media are quick to proclaim these actions as signs of guilt. But, after the global warming advocates began a systematic destruction of evidence, the big television networks went for days without even reporting these facts, much less commenting on them.
December 18, 2009
Trouble coming?
From Yahoo news............................................
Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well on a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.
"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran," a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," he said, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently.
An official of the state-owned South Oil Co in the southeastern city of Amara, and west of the field, said: "An Iranian force arrived at the field early this morning (Friday).
"It took control of Well 4 and raised the Iranian flag even though the well lies in Iraqi territory," the official added.
"An oil ministry delegation is to travel to the area on Saturday to assess the situation."
The national security council was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday chaired by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraqi state television said quoting the minister of state for national security, Shirwan al-Waili.
The council also groups the ministers of interior, defence, foreign affairs, justice and finance.
Well 4 lies in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields Iraq unsuccessfully put up for auction to oil majors in June. The field has estimated reserves of 1.55 million barrels.
The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries.
There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said.
"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go ... to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.
"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."
He added that the Iraqis are "very concerned about the Iranians pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."
Iran has prevented Iraqi oil officials from reaching the well in the past, an industry source said. The Iraqis have accused Iran of firing on their people, something Tehran has denied.
There have been a number of meetings in recent years aimed at reaching agreement on border fields, so far without success.
Iranian forces take over Iraq oil well
NASIRIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Iranian forces took control of a southern Iraqi oil well on a disputed section of the border on Friday, US and Iraqi officials told AFP.
"There has been no violence related to this incident and we trust this will be resolved through peaceful diplomacy between the governments of Iraq and Iran," a US military spokesman told AFP at Contingency Operating Base Adder, just outside the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
"The oil field is in disputed territory in between Iranian and Iraqi border forts," he said, adding that such incidents occur quite frequently.
An official of the state-owned South Oil Co in the southeastern city of Amara, and west of the field, said: "An Iranian force arrived at the field early this morning (Friday).
"It took control of Well 4 and raised the Iranian flag even though the well lies in Iraqi territory," the official added.
"An oil ministry delegation is to travel to the area on Saturday to assess the situation."
The national security council was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday chaired by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraqi state television said quoting the minister of state for national security, Shirwan al-Waili.
The council also groups the ministers of interior, defence, foreign affairs, justice and finance.
Well 4 lies in the Fauqa Field, part of a cluster of fields Iraq unsuccessfully put up for auction to oil majors in June. The field has estimated reserves of 1.55 million barrels.
The field is about 500 metres (yards) from an Iranian border fort and about 1 kilometre from an Iraqi border fort, US Colonel Peter Newell said, adding that it falls on the Iraqi side of a border agreed between the two countries.
There are five other similar fields that also fall into disputed territory, he said.
"What happens is, periodically, about every three or four months, the oil ministry guys from Iraq will go ... to fix something or do some maintenance. They'll paint it in Iraqi colours and throw an Iraqi flag up.
"They'll hang out there for a while, until they get tired, and as soon as they go away, the Iranians come down the hill and paint it Iranian colours and raise an Iranian flag. It happened about three months ago and it will probably happen again."
He added that the Iraqis are "very concerned about the Iranians pulling oil out of fields underneath Iraq."
Iran has prevented Iraqi oil officials from reaching the well in the past, an industry source said. The Iraqis have accused Iran of firing on their people, something Tehran has denied.
There have been a number of meetings in recent years aimed at reaching agreement on border fields, so far without success.
December 17, 2009
Free Markets....................
Throughout of the duration of the American and Soviet Cold War, there were many strategies undertaken in America’s fight against the spread of Communism. In the end America came out on top not because of better tactics or strategy, but because of capitalism itself. Capitalism works, Communism doesn’t' t. The economic and political contradictions in Soviet Socialism would be the cause of it’s own downfall. It was evident to Americans working in free-market conditions that a society could not survive economically when decisions on production, and use of resources, were based on political interests. Free Markets allow the people to direct the growth of an economy. It efficiently allocates scarce resources to where they are most needed, and rations by prices that are determined by supply and demand.
Dan Oliver, of National Review, writes:
When a collection of free individuals are willing to pay a price for a product that creates “excess” profits, it signals producers to provide more of that product. If the market does not support a given price, producers are forced to redeploy their assets for more pressing social needs. Similarly, if a factor of production, such as labor or capital, changes in price, producers instantly react, sending signals — through the prices of intermediate goods — down to the consumer. Prices effortlessly allocate society’s assets to reflect consumer preference and adjust to accommodate the ever-changing availability of scarce resources.
But governmental interference in prices, through taxation, subsidies, and regulation, complicates this process — affecting not only the consumption of final goods, but also the economic calculations that are necessary to provide intermediate goods and services. Higher-order division of labor fails. Poverty results. For example, while Chinese and Russian central planners were busy setting quotas for steel mills, there was no method for consumers to signal that they preferred food — and millions starved to death.
No matter how well intentioned the government or political activist might be, they are unable to compare with the free market principles that are supposed to guide out economy. Today, the political class’s of the world (left and right) have decided to go with the so-called “Third Way”.
Dan Oliver, of National Review, writes:
When a collection of free individuals are willing to pay a price for a product that creates “excess” profits, it signals producers to provide more of that product. If the market does not support a given price, producers are forced to redeploy their assets for more pressing social needs. Similarly, if a factor of production, such as labor or capital, changes in price, producers instantly react, sending signals — through the prices of intermediate goods — down to the consumer. Prices effortlessly allocate society’s assets to reflect consumer preference and adjust to accommodate the ever-changing availability of scarce resources.
But governmental interference in prices, through taxation, subsidies, and regulation, complicates this process — affecting not only the consumption of final goods, but also the economic calculations that are necessary to provide intermediate goods and services. Higher-order division of labor fails. Poverty results. For example, while Chinese and Russian central planners were busy setting quotas for steel mills, there was no method for consumers to signal that they preferred food — and millions starved to death.
No matter how well intentioned the government or political activist might be, they are unable to compare with the free market principles that are supposed to guide out economy. Today, the political class’s of the world (left and right) have decided to go with the so-called “Third Way”.
December 15, 2009
8 year old student suspended for this?
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) - An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday. Chester Johnson told WBZ-TV that his son made the drawing on Dec. 2 after his second-grade teacher asked children to sketch something that reminded them of the holiday.Johnson told the Taunton Daily Gazette, which first reported the story on Tuesday, that his son has never been violent in school. An educational consultant working with the Johnson family said the teacher was also alarmed when the boy drew Xs for Jesus' eyes. The boy was cleared to return to school on Dec. 7 after the evaluation found nothing to indicate that he posed a threat to himself or others. But his father said the boy was traumatized by the incident and the school district has approved the family's request to have the child transferred to another school. "They owe my family an apology and the kid an apology and they need to work with my son (to) the best of their ability to get him back to where he was before all this happened," Johnson told New England Cable New. The father said in the days before the incident the family had gone to the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, where there are crucifixion statues. "That was fresh on his mind," he told NECN. "And that was a good thing that he saw." Superintendent Julie Hackett said she could not discuss an individual student and did not address the drawing specifically or the teacher's reaction to it, but did say the school has safety protocols in place that were followed. Hackett did not return multiple calls from the Associated Press on Tuesday.
Let's jump straight to the point here, this flat out ridiculousness. Are we really so paranoid as a society that an image of the crucifix merits a child's psychological evaluation? I probably drew the same image a hundred times in school and never heard a word about it. I had friends who drew it all over their backpacks. It is insane that this teacher, not to mention the schools administration, found suspension and psychological evaluation an appropriate response. What did they think he was drawing? Are they so unaware of the Christian religion and it's relation with "the holidays" that they didn't make this very simple correlation? Do they not understand that kids usually draw X's on the eye's of people who are hurt, because that's what cartoon's on TV do? This response is so far over-board that it would be more appropriate to evaluate the teacher. I guess I didn't realize that the crucifix was such an offensive and dangerous symbol for the holidays. I hope this teacher never enters a catholic church, or she may go into cardiac arrest.
Let's jump straight to the point here, this flat out ridiculousness. Are we really so paranoid as a society that an image of the crucifix merits a child's psychological evaluation? I probably drew the same image a hundred times in school and never heard a word about it. I had friends who drew it all over their backpacks. It is insane that this teacher, not to mention the schools administration, found suspension and psychological evaluation an appropriate response. What did they think he was drawing? Are they so unaware of the Christian religion and it's relation with "the holidays" that they didn't make this very simple correlation? Do they not understand that kids usually draw X's on the eye's of people who are hurt, because that's what cartoon's on TV do? This response is so far over-board that it would be more appropriate to evaluate the teacher. I guess I didn't realize that the crucifix was such an offensive and dangerous symbol for the holidays. I hope this teacher never enters a catholic church, or she may go into cardiac arrest.
100 reasons why Global Warming is not man-made
From the Daily UK:
A report issued by the well respected European Foundation, argues that a higher level of carbon dioxide is not a problem because it helps to boost crop yields. The Foundation also claimed that the warming we are now experiencing is “mostly natural”, pointing to historic shifts in the climate such as when Vikings farmed on Greenland in medieval times.
Political analyst Jim McConalogue, who wrote the report, said: “This demonstrates how tenuous, improper and indeed false the scientific and political claims are for man-made global warming.
From claims that climate change can be controlled by human activity, to the proposition that CO2 emissions represent a severe threat to our way of life, McConalogue argues that there is little evidence to support any of these claims.
He warned that the Copenhagen Climate Summit was likely to lead to “nonsensical targets” to reduce emissions, which would result in a “burdensome regulatory agenda”. After Copenhagen, voters around the world “will see what travesty has been done in their name, as foolish politicians and indifferent industry associations have engulfed their countries in emissions legislation”.
click on the Read More link below to see the European Foundations 100 reasons why Global Warming is natural and not man-made
A report issued by the well respected European Foundation, argues that a higher level of carbon dioxide is not a problem because it helps to boost crop yields. The Foundation also claimed that the warming we are now experiencing is “mostly natural”, pointing to historic shifts in the climate such as when Vikings farmed on Greenland in medieval times.
Political analyst Jim McConalogue, who wrote the report, said: “This demonstrates how tenuous, improper and indeed false the scientific and political claims are for man-made global warming.
From claims that climate change can be controlled by human activity, to the proposition that CO2 emissions represent a severe threat to our way of life, McConalogue argues that there is little evidence to support any of these claims.
He warned that the Copenhagen Climate Summit was likely to lead to “nonsensical targets” to reduce emissions, which would result in a “burdensome regulatory agenda”. After Copenhagen, voters around the world “will see what travesty has been done in their name, as foolish politicians and indifferent industry associations have engulfed their countries in emissions legislation”.
click on the Read More link below to see the European Foundations 100 reasons why Global Warming is natural and not man-made
December 11, 2009
Friday Night Quote............................
- Michael Crichton
Praise for China's one-child policy is insane..............
As the Copenhagen Conference (meeting December 7-18) on climate change continues, reports from the Eco-Nazis on the dangers facing our world are becoming more and more extreme. The two latest stories I saw focus on the dangers of overpopulation. Shockingly, both writers strongly embrace instituting the “one-child policy” that was put in place in China. Check out these excerpts from the National Canadian Newspaper:
A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate. Doing nothing will result in an unsustainable population of nine billion by 2050. Humans are the only rational animals but have yet to prove it. The world can only accommodate so many people, especially if billions get indoor plumbing and cars.
There’s something that you should take away from that paragraph. Mainly, the lack of common sense. Preachers of environmental disaster have been screaming about population control for over 200 years. Educated predictions of future world population have gone from a high of 20 billion, to 15 billion, to 11 billion (1990 UN estimate) to now 9 billion in 2050.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published the highly referenced book; The Population Bom. The book predicted that by 1985, overpopulation would lead to world famine, the death of the oceans, a reduction in life expectancy to 42 years, nuclear war, and the wasting of the Midwest into a vast desert. Overpopulation has been
A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate. Doing nothing will result in an unsustainable population of nine billion by 2050. Humans are the only rational animals but have yet to prove it. The world can only accommodate so many people, especially if billions get indoor plumbing and cars.
There’s something that you should take away from that paragraph. Mainly, the lack of common sense. Preachers of environmental disaster have been screaming about population control for over 200 years. Educated predictions of future world population have gone from a high of 20 billion, to 15 billion, to 11 billion (1990 UN estimate) to now 9 billion in 2050.
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich published the highly referenced book; The Population Bom. The book predicted that by 1985, overpopulation would lead to world famine, the death of the oceans, a reduction in life expectancy to 42 years, nuclear war, and the wasting of the Midwest into a vast desert. Overpopulation has been
Federal employee's enjoy financial boom throughout recession...........
This is just part of the reason that growing the government doesn’t work. The average pay for federal employees is now $71,000.00. That’s over $30,000 more than their private sector counterparts. The government is now a wasteful subsidiary of public unions, overpaying for unnecessary work while limited and restricting private growth. It needs to stop. Here’s the article from USA Today detailing the misuse of our money……………………………………………
For feds, more get 6-figure salaries
Average pay $30,000 over private sector
By Dennis Cauchon
USA TODAY
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
For feds, more get 6-figure salaries
Average pay $30,000 over private sector
By Dennis Cauchon
USA TODAY
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted. Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
December 10, 2009
Expanding Medicare??????????
A new poll conducted by ROC and CNN shows that only 36% of Americans support the Senates Nationalized health care plan. Not only that, but a whopping 61% are flat out against it. That may seem like an extreme swing, but anyone in their right mind should be appalled by the current plan. Senate Democrats in their quest for public admiration, have compromised sanity to get a healthcare bill passed.
In their infinite wisdom, and through a total lack of economic common sense, the Senate has decided to EXPAND Medicare. This news will be sure to please doctors and hospitals, who already believe that Medicare is unsustainable. Medicare currently compensates providers below cost, with many doctors refusing care, and others capping how many patients they can afford to see. Under the Senates compromise Medicare will expand to cover patients as young as 55 years old. This will ensure a massively expanded unfunded mandate on American taxpayers for years to come. To show you just how stupid this plan really is, I have copied an excerpt from the Medicare 2009 annual report.
Medicare's financial difficulties come sooner—and are much more severe—than those confronting Social Security. Underlying health care costs per enrollee are projected to rise faster than the earnings per worker on which payroll taxes and Social Security benefits are based. The fund again fails our test of short-range financial adequacy. The fund also continues to fail our long range test of close actuarial balance by a wide margin. The projected date of HI Trust Fund exhaustion is 2017, two years earlier than in last year's report. Projected HI dedicated revenues fall short of outlays by rapidly increasing margins in all future years. The Medicare Report shows that the HI Trust Fund could be brought into actuarial balance over the next 75 years by changes equivalent to an immediate 134 percent increase in the payroll tax, or an immediate 53 percent reduction in program outlays. The projected exhaustion of the HI Trust Fund within the next eight years is an urgent concern. Congressional action will be necessary to ensure uninterrupted provision of HI services to beneficiaries. Correcting the financial imbalance for the HI Trust Fund—even in the short range alone—will require substantial changes to program income and/or expenditures.
In their infinite wisdom, and through a total lack of economic common sense, the Senate has decided to EXPAND Medicare. This news will be sure to please doctors and hospitals, who already believe that Medicare is unsustainable. Medicare currently compensates providers below cost, with many doctors refusing care, and others capping how many patients they can afford to see. Under the Senates compromise Medicare will expand to cover patients as young as 55 years old. This will ensure a massively expanded unfunded mandate on American taxpayers for years to come. To show you just how stupid this plan really is, I have copied an excerpt from the Medicare 2009 annual report.
Medicare's financial difficulties come sooner—and are much more severe—than those confronting Social Security. Underlying health care costs per enrollee are projected to rise faster than the earnings per worker on which payroll taxes and Social Security benefits are based. The fund again fails our test of short-range financial adequacy. The fund also continues to fail our long range test of close actuarial balance by a wide margin. The projected date of HI Trust Fund exhaustion is 2017, two years earlier than in last year's report. Projected HI dedicated revenues fall short of outlays by rapidly increasing margins in all future years. The Medicare Report shows that the HI Trust Fund could be brought into actuarial balance over the next 75 years by changes equivalent to an immediate 134 percent increase in the payroll tax, or an immediate 53 percent reduction in program outlays. The projected exhaustion of the HI Trust Fund within the next eight years is an urgent concern. Congressional action will be necessary to ensure uninterrupted provision of HI services to beneficiaries. Correcting the financial imbalance for the HI Trust Fund—even in the short range alone—will require substantial changes to program income and/or expenditures.
Democrats to increase the National debt ceiling...... Again!
Democrats in Washington announced today that they will be raising the Federal Debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion before the New Year. This comes on the heels of President Obama announcing his next big stimulus push yesterday morning, cementing his status as the most wasteful president in history.
“We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told POLITICO Wednesday
The mark of $1.8 Trillion is double of what was discussed during last springs budgtet resolutions, and is another sign of Washingtons inability to propoerly manage spending. To get this through, Democrats wil be attaching the new ceiling to the Military appropriations bill, which funds efforts in Iraq and Afghanastan making the bill a “must pass” legislation.
“It is December. We don’t really have a choice,” Obey told POLITICO. “The bill’s already been run up; the credit card has already been used. When you get the bill in the mail you need to pay it.”
So you see, they don’t have a choice because they already spent the money. What great representatives we have. They don’t even think for one second that maybe they should cut back on spending. It doesn’t even cross their minds. They are oblivious to the economic realities that we all live with in our personal lives. They are government cronies, completely in bed with government unions and have no sense of what grows and retracts our national value. Think about it-- Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barrack Obama--- Are any of them educated specifically in economics? Are any of them able to make financial decisions based on sound economic principls? No, they are a bunch of activists and lawyers who solidify their power by growing government. Not even a month ago, Barrack Obama vowed to be more defecit conscious. I guess he does that by expanding the debt ceiling. This is what happens when we elect a social worker to the highest office in the country.
“We’ve incurred this debt. We have to pay our bills,” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told POLITICO Wednesday
The mark of $1.8 Trillion is double of what was discussed during last springs budgtet resolutions, and is another sign of Washingtons inability to propoerly manage spending. To get this through, Democrats wil be attaching the new ceiling to the Military appropriations bill, which funds efforts in Iraq and Afghanastan making the bill a “must pass” legislation.
“It is December. We don’t really have a choice,” Obey told POLITICO. “The bill’s already been run up; the credit card has already been used. When you get the bill in the mail you need to pay it.”
So you see, they don’t have a choice because they already spent the money. What great representatives we have. They don’t even think for one second that maybe they should cut back on spending. It doesn’t even cross their minds. They are oblivious to the economic realities that we all live with in our personal lives. They are government cronies, completely in bed with government unions and have no sense of what grows and retracts our national value. Think about it-- Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barrack Obama--- Are any of them educated specifically in economics? Are any of them able to make financial decisions based on sound economic principls? No, they are a bunch of activists and lawyers who solidify their power by growing government. Not even a month ago, Barrack Obama vowed to be more defecit conscious. I guess he does that by expanding the debt ceiling. This is what happens when we elect a social worker to the highest office in the country.
December 9, 2009
Tax money for Abortions stays in the Senate healthcare bill
Senate rejects Nelson amendment on abortion
From the Washington Post
The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill, leaving in question whether Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has the 60 votes needed to move the bill toward final passage.
The measure, which failed 54-45, addressed the scope of restrictions on coverage of abortion services for people who receive subsidies to buy insurance. The outcome could cost the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who has threatened to filibuster the $848 billion bill unless abortion restrictions are tightened.
Meanwhile California Senator Dianne Feinstein makes the statement that it is morally correct for taxpayers opposed to abortion to cough up money for it. Her reasoning: we pay for lots of things we don't believe in. Audio linked below. I've written on this before and I won't go into it too much here. I simply find it unbelievable that they could mandate public support for such a divided issue. It's one thing to go to war, with the national security of everyone at risk. It's another thing to take a social issue and mandate its support from people who find it reprehensible and morally wrong. Government force is in full swing, with "progressives" taking the perogative on what is moral. If any group is less capable of judging morailty, I don't know of them.
From the Washington Post
The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill, leaving in question whether Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) has the 60 votes needed to move the bill toward final passage.
The measure, which failed 54-45, addressed the scope of restrictions on coverage of abortion services for people who receive subsidies to buy insurance. The outcome could cost the support of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who has threatened to filibuster the $848 billion bill unless abortion restrictions are tightened.
Meanwhile California Senator Dianne Feinstein makes the statement that it is morally correct for taxpayers opposed to abortion to cough up money for it. Her reasoning: we pay for lots of things we don't believe in. Audio linked below. I've written on this before and I won't go into it too much here. I simply find it unbelievable that they could mandate public support for such a divided issue. It's one thing to go to war, with the national security of everyone at risk. It's another thing to take a social issue and mandate its support from people who find it reprehensible and morally wrong. Government force is in full swing, with "progressives" taking the perogative on what is moral. If any group is less capable of judging morailty, I don't know of them.
December 8, 2009
You have got to be joking……….
Just when you think the government couldn’t possibly find more ways to waste our money, Barrack Obama today outlined his plans to introduce ANOTHER stimulus package. According to President Obama:
“the nation must continue to spend our way out of this recession until more Americans are back at work."
I wonder if that would work for my credit card too?
Meanwhile, the President misses the irony of his announcement coming a day after the CBO’s latest stimulus report. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost per job created with last years stimulus money was just under $250,000.00 a pop. And that doesn’t even show how many jobs were prevented in the private sector by wasting a $1.4 trillion on government.
Obama seems intent on repeating the same mistakes that prolonged the Great Depression. In true Herbert Hoover fashion, he called for more government spending on infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and water projects; and for new tax breaks for consumers who invest in energy-efficient retrofits in their homes.
The Keynesian view of the world that this president has is truly disturbing. Every time he talks about the economy he promises to spend more money that we don’t have. The government simply refuses to acknowledge that it has grown too large to sustain, so they come up with half-baked-reasons to catapult spending to new heights. If you want to grow the economy you have to increase the PRIVATE SECTOR workforce. All he is doing is taking limited resources out of the market and using them for his preferred area of business.
Meanwhile, images of Obama’s first major infrastructure project have been leaked on the internet. It aint the Hoover Damn, but I think it looks promising…….
“the nation must continue to spend our way out of this recession until more Americans are back at work."
I wonder if that would work for my credit card too?
Meanwhile, the President misses the irony of his announcement coming a day after the CBO’s latest stimulus report. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the cost per job created with last years stimulus money was just under $250,000.00 a pop. And that doesn’t even show how many jobs were prevented in the private sector by wasting a $1.4 trillion on government.
Obama seems intent on repeating the same mistakes that prolonged the Great Depression. In true Herbert Hoover fashion, he called for more government spending on infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and water projects; and for new tax breaks for consumers who invest in energy-efficient retrofits in their homes.
The Keynesian view of the world that this president has is truly disturbing. Every time he talks about the economy he promises to spend more money that we don’t have. The government simply refuses to acknowledge that it has grown too large to sustain, so they come up with half-baked-reasons to catapult spending to new heights. If you want to grow the economy you have to increase the PRIVATE SECTOR workforce. All he is doing is taking limited resources out of the market and using them for his preferred area of business.
Meanwhile, images of Obama’s first major infrastructure project have been leaked on the internet. It aint the Hoover Damn, but I think it looks promising…….
Harry Reid.....Moron!
Once again the liberals are trying to tie their issues to some historical event that shows opposition to them is evil. The liberal (fascist) tendencie to do this is really quite amusing. Here we have Harry Reid comparing healthcare opposition to anti-abolitionists. I think he might be senile. I've previously shown clips of Democrats comparing the healthcare issue to the holocaust.
December 7, 2009
How the Left teaches tolerance and indoctrinates children........
WARNING: EXPLICIT MATERIAL
Kevin Jennings was appointed by President Obama to be the “Safe School Czar” on may 19, 2009. His appointment immediately caught the attention of many Republicans, laying the foundation for yet another controversy relating to the political appointees of the current administration. Jennings has more skeletons in his closet than perhaps any other member of this administration, and is now in position to dictate what are children are taught in school.
Kevin Jennings was appointed by President Obama to be the “Safe School Czar” on may 19, 2009. His appointment immediately caught the attention of many Republicans, laying the foundation for yet another controversy relating to the political appointees of the current administration. Jennings has more skeletons in his closet than perhaps any other member of this administration, and is now in position to dictate what are children are taught in school.
Jennings founded and directed the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). GLSEN publicly strives to influence educational curriculum to include materials which the group believes will increase tolerance of gay students. One of the ways they go about this mission, is by maintaining a recommended reading list, which they believe "furthers the mission to ensure safe schools for all children". GLSEN's booklink allows teachers to purchase these books for mandatory student reading and classroom assignments. According to GLSEN's own press releases, the reading list was extremely important in the efforts to influence the American education system. The guys over at gatewaypundit checked out the recommended reading for students in grades 7-12, and needless to say, they were blown away by what they discovered. The image at the top of this post is taken directly from the recommended reading list of our school safety czar!
Gateway:
Book after book after book contained stories and anecdotes that weren’t merely X-rated and pornographic, but which featured explicit descriptions of sex acts between pre-schoolers; stories that seemed to promote and recommend child-adult sexual relationships; stories of public masturbation, anal sex in restrooms, affairs between students and teachers, five-year-olds playing sex games, semen flying through the air. One memoir even praised becoming a prostitute as a way to increase one’s self-esteem. Above all, the books seemed to have less to do with promoting tolerance than with an unabashed attempt to indoctrinate students into a hyper-sexualized worldview. Mere descriptions on our part could not convey the emotional gut reaction one gets when seeing what Kevin Jennings wants kids to read as school assignments. So we began scanning pages from each of the books, and then made exact transcriptions of the relevant passages on each page. Read the passages below and judge for yourself. There’s no wiggle room. The language is explicit, the intent clear.
To be specific, the books we read were:
Queer 13, Being Different, The Full Spectrum, Revolutionary Voices, Reflections of a Rock Lobster, Passages of Pride, Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian, The Order of the Poison Oak, In Your Face, Mama’s Boy, Preacher’s Son, Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
According to Kevin Jennings and GLSEN, books about a 13-year-old getting “my cock sucked and my ass fucked” or about a teenager enjoying the “exquisite bitter taste” of his friend’s semen are not just acceptable, they’re highly recommended. As GLSEN’s own site says, “All BookLink items are reviewed by GLSEN staff for quality and appropriateness of content.” Really? (Note: GLSEN does advise adults to “review content for suitability.”)
December 5, 2009
Hyper Inflation Nation Part 3
As promised, here is the conclusion to the Hyper Inflation Nation film. Enjoy....
December 4, 2009
Friday Night Quote..........
- Ronald Reagan
December 3, 2009
Minnesota state budget.......
Yesterday, the Star Tribune reported that Minnesota faces a $1.2 billion budget deficit that could exceed $5.4 billion over the next three years. This is according to a state budget forecast released Wednesday. Before overreacting, it’s important to note that these forecasts are often very wrong. But personally, I don’t think this is one of those times. There are many issues that people scream about in regards to fixing the budget. Raise taxes, borrow money, cut school funding; I would take another approach.
On April 27, 2008 the Democratic majority in the Minnesota Legislator passed the HHS Spending Bill-HF 1362. Rather than working on balancing our budget, the Majority party increased the budget for welfare by 2.2 billion dollars. An increase of 20.47! Shortly after that, an audit was performed on these programs revealing that millions of dollars from minnesota taxpayers were somehow being spent all over the country (including Hawaii--by people on wellfare!)
Guess what I would do…..
On April 27, 2008 the Democratic majority in the Minnesota Legislator passed the HHS Spending Bill-HF 1362. Rather than working on balancing our budget, the Majority party increased the budget for welfare by 2.2 billion dollars. An increase of 20.47! Shortly after that, an audit was performed on these programs revealing that millions of dollars from minnesota taxpayers were somehow being spent all over the country (including Hawaii--by people on wellfare!)
Guess what I would do…..
Chris Horner to sue NASA, Barbara Boxer seeks to punish whistleblowers.....
As the IPCC scrambles to retain a shred of dignity in wake of their climate cover-up, the fight over climate policy in the U.S. is taking a new turn. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s.
"I assume that what is there is highly damaging," Mr. Horner said. "These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.
Clearly, Mr. Horner is a flat earth creationist and holocaust denier. Meanwhile, Democrats on the hill are attempting to change the focus of the crime that was uncovered through climategate. Senator Barbara Boxer (living proof that no-intelligence is required in the Senate) said that the leaked e-mails in the climategate scandal should be treated as a criminal matter, but not for the scientist perpetrating the world-wide fraud. She wants to skip right past what the emails revealed, and go straight to prosecuting whoever released them
"You call it Climategate; I call it E-mail-theft-gate. We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity."
The audacity is unreal. This would be like Tom Petters (ponzi scheme operator extraordinaire) blaming his employees for exposing his crimes and violating his personal privacy. Boxer sails right past the fact that we are trying to enter into a global treaty, which has the potential to destroy the world’s economy and change the entire framework of our country, over science that has been established with false data. When Sarah Palin was running for Vice-President, her email was hacked and released to the public. There was nothing incriminating in those emails, but it lead to all sorts of investigations and legal subpoenas (AKA: Trooper-gate). I don't recall Senator Boxer showing the same outrage over Palin’s right to privacy. Boxer is simply using the same old liberal tactic of re-directing attention in the face of outright fraud. Her ponzi scheme is unraveling before her eyes and she is grasping at anything she can to divert attention. My question to Al Gore, Senator Boxer, and the rest of you commies out there is very simple: “Who are the Deniers now?”
"I assume that what is there is highly damaging," Mr. Horner said. "These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this.
Clearly, Mr. Horner is a flat earth creationist and holocaust denier. Meanwhile, Democrats on the hill are attempting to change the focus of the crime that was uncovered through climategate. Senator Barbara Boxer (living proof that no-intelligence is required in the Senate) said that the leaked e-mails in the climategate scandal should be treated as a criminal matter, but not for the scientist perpetrating the world-wide fraud. She wants to skip right past what the emails revealed, and go straight to prosecuting whoever released them
"You call it Climategate; I call it E-mail-theft-gate. We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity."
The audacity is unreal. This would be like Tom Petters (ponzi scheme operator extraordinaire) blaming his employees for exposing his crimes and violating his personal privacy. Boxer sails right past the fact that we are trying to enter into a global treaty, which has the potential to destroy the world’s economy and change the entire framework of our country, over science that has been established with false data. When Sarah Palin was running for Vice-President, her email was hacked and released to the public. There was nothing incriminating in those emails, but it lead to all sorts of investigations and legal subpoenas (AKA: Trooper-gate). I don't recall Senator Boxer showing the same outrage over Palin’s right to privacy. Boxer is simply using the same old liberal tactic of re-directing attention in the face of outright fraud. Her ponzi scheme is unraveling before her eyes and she is grasping at anything she can to divert attention. My question to Al Gore, Senator Boxer, and the rest of you commies out there is very simple: “Who are the Deniers now?”
December 2, 2009
Failure of the Mind
I have been involved with several political debates lately. How do I get involved? Simple. When I hear some dolt making a blanket statement about how "the threat of global warming is going to kill us all" or "we just need to go along to get along" I shout back at them. "What are you talking about? Do you have a slight bit of information to back up what you're saying? If not, shut up!"
So my life goes.
The tragic part of this is the fact that the people who think this way, KNOW that they are not logical and are not thinking but reacting from emotion. They often times tell me "I know in my heart that buying carbon credits is a good thing, I FEEL IT!"
What are all these things about? Failure of the Mind. People don't want to think anymore. Folks would rather go through life, gorging themselves at the table of mediocrity. Nobody wants to be special, nobody wants to earn, nobody wants to think. Chances are that if you have read this far into my post, these rules don't apply to you. However, if you often times turn on the history channel and think you are learning, you are not out of the woods yet.
People don't want to think. A friend of mine at work (who shares a similar disdain for lack of thinking) was recently talking to a person who he had a disagreement with.
Idiot: You don't have many friends, doesn't that bother you?
My friend: It's lonely at the top of the mountain. You lower your standards to please people, and that makes me sick.
Idiot: I would rather throw aside my standards than be lonely.
I wish this type of thinking was the abnormal, but tragically I find it to be the standard. Don't believe me? Find some bilge rat wearing a Vikings hat... Approach him and say "Excuse me sir, could you tell me who is the Quarterback for the Vikings?" When he promptly replies "Brett Favre of course". Come back quick with, "Could you tell me who the Senate Majority Leader is?". When he stares blank at you, just remember... Thinking is hard, that's why people don't do it.
Or try the Michael Savage test. Find a recent high school or college graduate (even a regular adult will do). Ask them "Scuse me sir... Could you tell me the difference between these 3 items:
1. Fettucini
2. Rigatoni
3. Mussolini"
When he calmly chuckles and says, "How silly of you! I have a PHD in Social Work, not in Italian Food! HAR HAR HAR!!!!" while he steps into his Prius, just remember how I say, "Thinking is hard, that's why people don't do it"
How does this have to do with conservative thought? It doesn't so much. It more has to do with "Rogue thinking" and going against the norm. Like signing your signature on the Declaration of Independence.
I firmly believe that if you talk to people, challenge them, and get them to think, they will become conservatives over time. There is no way around it. Get people to read books. Any book will do, because eventually they will want books with substance and authenticity, and look to classics and others that promote critical thought.
"Thou Shalt Think" -Ayn Rand
So my life goes.
The tragic part of this is the fact that the people who think this way, KNOW that they are not logical and are not thinking but reacting from emotion. They often times tell me "I know in my heart that buying carbon credits is a good thing, I FEEL IT!"
What are all these things about? Failure of the Mind. People don't want to think anymore. Folks would rather go through life, gorging themselves at the table of mediocrity. Nobody wants to be special, nobody wants to earn, nobody wants to think. Chances are that if you have read this far into my post, these rules don't apply to you. However, if you often times turn on the history channel and think you are learning, you are not out of the woods yet.
People don't want to think. A friend of mine at work (who shares a similar disdain for lack of thinking) was recently talking to a person who he had a disagreement with.
Idiot: You don't have many friends, doesn't that bother you?
My friend: It's lonely at the top of the mountain. You lower your standards to please people, and that makes me sick.
Idiot: I would rather throw aside my standards than be lonely.
I wish this type of thinking was the abnormal, but tragically I find it to be the standard. Don't believe me? Find some bilge rat wearing a Vikings hat... Approach him and say "Excuse me sir, could you tell me who is the Quarterback for the Vikings?" When he promptly replies "Brett Favre of course". Come back quick with, "Could you tell me who the Senate Majority Leader is?". When he stares blank at you, just remember... Thinking is hard, that's why people don't do it.
Or try the Michael Savage test. Find a recent high school or college graduate (even a regular adult will do). Ask them "Scuse me sir... Could you tell me the difference between these 3 items:
1. Fettucini
2. Rigatoni
3. Mussolini"
When he calmly chuckles and says, "How silly of you! I have a PHD in Social Work, not in Italian Food! HAR HAR HAR!!!!" while he steps into his Prius, just remember how I say, "Thinking is hard, that's why people don't do it"
How does this have to do with conservative thought? It doesn't so much. It more has to do with "Rogue thinking" and going against the norm. Like signing your signature on the Declaration of Independence.
I firmly believe that if you talk to people, challenge them, and get them to think, they will become conservatives over time. There is no way around it. Get people to read books. Any book will do, because eventually they will want books with substance and authenticity, and look to classics and others that promote critical thought.
"Thou Shalt Think" -Ayn Rand
Thoughts on last nights Presidential address
Last night was the first time since President Obama took office that I actually felt bad for him. Watching him give his speech to the group at west-point, he looked defeated and exhausted. Clearly this is not an issue that is winning him any praise within his own party or the general population, as only 35% approve of his handling of Afhanistan. Truth is, it might be the only issue the media has actually questioned him on.
My empathy for Obama was quickly dissolved however, when it became clear how politically motivated his speech would be. He pledged 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan while simultaneously telling the entire world when we would be leaving. Not a great military strategy, but a necessary one for a politician worried more about elections. He spoke about his accomplishments in closing Gitmo and ending water boarding, which just created an odd combination of what felt like half campaign speech, and half emotional rhetoric. It just didn’t work. The sad realization of Obama supporters across the country would have been a sight to behold, because the fact of the matter is: Obama gave a speech that sounded just like George Bush.
Gabor Steingart commented:
It was the least truthful address that he has ever held. He spoke of responsibility, but almost every sentence smelled of party tactics. He demanded sacrifice, but he was unable to say what it was for exactly. Strength in Afghanistan will be tripled relative to the Bush years, a fact that is sure to impress hawks in America. But just 18 months later, just in time for Obama's re-election campaign, the horror of war is to end and the draw down will begin. The doves of peace will be let free.
It was as though Obama had taken one of his old campaign speeches and merged it with a text from the library of ex-President George W. Bush. Extremists kill in the name of Islam, he said, before adding that it is one of the "world's great religions." He promised that responsibility for the country's security would soon be transferred to the government of President Hamid Karzai -- a government which he said was "corrupt." The Taliban is dangerous and growing stronger. But "America will have to show our strength in the way that we end wars," he added. It was a dizzying combination of surge and withdrawal, of marching to and fro.
Obama clearly failed to impress. He will now have to explain how a bankrupt country is going to pay for this assault which now rivals any amount spent by Bush. And of course, we still need money for healthcare and cap and trade legislation. Personally, I don’t know how I feel about the Afghan war. Like John Kerry before me, "I was for it before I was against it". Much the same as I am in regards to the Iraq war. My perspective of US military action overseas is that we are getting over-extended. We go to these Middle-Eastern Countries and instead of routing resistance, we lay back and try to play the good-cop. We don’t allow our military to do what it would take for a total military victory, because what it would take would be pretty vicious. It would mean massive disruption of imports and exports. It would mean civilian casualties, food shortages, and bombing of populated cities. It may even mean WATER BOARDING!!! In the age of 24 hour media, the American people don’t have the stomach for this kind of war. Instead, we send troops over there and they play policeman. It’s not a winning strategy, and I don't find it a very responsible use of resources. Especially considering his lack of financing in boarder security and military defense.
I don’t know what the best action would be for our government from this point forward. If we're going to be in Afghanistan, I guess I am glad Obama is listening to his military experts, but there are many uncertainties to consider. One thing however, is for certain: Bush and Obama grow closer together in almost every political policy with each passing day.
My empathy for Obama was quickly dissolved however, when it became clear how politically motivated his speech would be. He pledged 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan while simultaneously telling the entire world when we would be leaving. Not a great military strategy, but a necessary one for a politician worried more about elections. He spoke about his accomplishments in closing Gitmo and ending water boarding, which just created an odd combination of what felt like half campaign speech, and half emotional rhetoric. It just didn’t work. The sad realization of Obama supporters across the country would have been a sight to behold, because the fact of the matter is: Obama gave a speech that sounded just like George Bush.
Gabor Steingart commented:
It was the least truthful address that he has ever held. He spoke of responsibility, but almost every sentence smelled of party tactics. He demanded sacrifice, but he was unable to say what it was for exactly. Strength in Afghanistan will be tripled relative to the Bush years, a fact that is sure to impress hawks in America. But just 18 months later, just in time for Obama's re-election campaign, the horror of war is to end and the draw down will begin. The doves of peace will be let free.
It was as though Obama had taken one of his old campaign speeches and merged it with a text from the library of ex-President George W. Bush. Extremists kill in the name of Islam, he said, before adding that it is one of the "world's great religions." He promised that responsibility for the country's security would soon be transferred to the government of President Hamid Karzai -- a government which he said was "corrupt." The Taliban is dangerous and growing stronger. But "America will have to show our strength in the way that we end wars," he added. It was a dizzying combination of surge and withdrawal, of marching to and fro.
Obama clearly failed to impress. He will now have to explain how a bankrupt country is going to pay for this assault which now rivals any amount spent by Bush. And of course, we still need money for healthcare and cap and trade legislation. Personally, I don’t know how I feel about the Afghan war. Like John Kerry before me, "I was for it before I was against it". Much the same as I am in regards to the Iraq war. My perspective of US military action overseas is that we are getting over-extended. We go to these Middle-Eastern Countries and instead of routing resistance, we lay back and try to play the good-cop. We don’t allow our military to do what it would take for a total military victory, because what it would take would be pretty vicious. It would mean massive disruption of imports and exports. It would mean civilian casualties, food shortages, and bombing of populated cities. It may even mean WATER BOARDING!!! In the age of 24 hour media, the American people don’t have the stomach for this kind of war. Instead, we send troops over there and they play policeman. It’s not a winning strategy, and I don't find it a very responsible use of resources. Especially considering his lack of financing in boarder security and military defense.
I don’t know what the best action would be for our government from this point forward. If we're going to be in Afghanistan, I guess I am glad Obama is listening to his military experts, but there are many uncertainties to consider. One thing however, is for certain: Bush and Obama grow closer together in almost every political policy with each passing day.
Monckton Slams Climategate....
The climategate story won’t be going away anytime soon, despite the wishes of Al Gore and Don Shelby. On Monday, Lord Christopher Monckton published a comprehensive review of the scandal. He goes into great detail about the damage done by these pseudo-scientist over the past decade, and how they have been overtly fraudulent at the expense of the public. The climate change scam makes Bernie Maddoff’s Ponzi Scheme look like childs play. I have posted a excerpt of his review, along with a link to the full PDF document. (FYI: full PDF is nearly 40 pages long, but it’s well worth the read for anyone interested)(Read Full Report Here)
THE WHISTLE BLOWS FOR TRUTH
by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley
The whistleblower deep in the basement of one of the ugly, modern tower-blocks of the dismal, windswept University of East Anglia could scarcely have timed it better.In less than three weeks, the world’s governing class – its classe politique – would meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, to discuss a treaty to inflict an unelected and tyrannical global government on us, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all once-free world markets and to tax and regulate the world’s wealthier nations for its own enrichment: in short, to bring freedom, democracy, and prosperity to an instant end worldwide, at the stroke of a pen, on the pretext of addressing what is now known to be the non-problem of manmade “global warming”.
The unnamed hero of ‘Climategate’, after months of work gathering emails, computer code, and data, quietly sent a 61-megabyte compressed file from one of the university’s servers to an obscure public message-board on the internet, with a short covering note to the effect that the climate was too important to keep the material secret, and that the data from the University would be available for a short time only.He had caught the world’s politico-scientific establishment green-handed. Yet his first attempts to reveal the highly-profitable fraud and systematic corruption at the very heart of the UN’s climate panel and among the scientists most prominent in influencing it’s prejudiced and absurdly doom-laden reports had failed. He had made the mistake of sending the data-file to the mainstream news media, which had also profited for decades by fostering the “global warming” scare, and by generally denying anyone who disagreed with the official viewpoint any platform.The whistleblower’s data file revealed, for the first time, the innermost workings of the tiny international clique of climate scientists, centered on the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia, that has been the prime mover in telling the world that it is warming at an unprecedented rate, and that humankind is responsible.
REVEALED: THE ABJECT CORRUPTION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE
The gallant whistleblower now faces a police investigation at the instigation of the University authorities desperate to look after their own and to divert allegations of criminality elsewhere. His crime? He had revealed what many had long suspected:
December 1, 2009
Good stuff.........
Climategate Update #3
Penn State University and the University of East Anglia have now taken steps to address the Climategate controversy. Dr. Phil Jones has temporarily stepped down from his position, pending an internal investigation. Michael Mann has not received any punishment as of yet, but is under internal investigation from within the University. Both stories are linked below.
In related news, both Jones and Mann have been nominated for next years Nobel Peace Prize…….
Phil Jones steps down
Mann investigated at Penn State
In related news, both Jones and Mann have been nominated for next years Nobel Peace Prize…….
Phil Jones steps down
Mann investigated at Penn State
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