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| From the not to distant past I waged a war, a war against depression, a war I called my war of understanding. A war that almost claimed my life, unfortunate that their is still not a day that passes that I ask and I the better for winning by fate or luck. A flare for the dramatic I wanted to drift to sleep to the sounds of Bloody Kisses on a constant repeat, and fade into the end of all things. I had no Fear as I know emptiness, I did not want to walk aimlessly another day on hells creation.
And things I should know and perhaps I did and just forgotten in the calamity of every day life, I felt a rush of sickness overtake me and I had to admit to myself I had somehow journeyed back into depression, I know I have been back and forth for well sometime in November it started I even wished I owned a gun to not have to wake up to the emptiness that I feel, It is a terrible feeling to feel that you don't think you want to live anymore. At first I thought of those who had gone before me people that I would wade though a river of blood to save even my own, for their are a few that I would greet death for anymore but those who I would It would be with a warm smile.
My mother saved my life and she doesn't even know it in a old lesson ( you may not get what you want, but what you need) It is nice to feel warm.
I just feel so dead inside I feel so empty. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| "Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do
you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed
that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing
ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very
seductive voices – taking advantage of our freedom of speech – who were trying
to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you
what you can and cannot do."
-- Nat Hentoff
Source: The Day They Came To Arrest The Book, 1982 | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This December shall be remembered as the end of things and the begining of depression and uncertanity welcome to the end. I shall wish upon good measure. Even as anger compels a force of weakness and fear and I promise no forgivenes for the rest of my years!
The dream is dead and other things are at hand. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| A reporter recently asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) where in the Constitution Congress is given the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance, she responded, "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Responding to a follow-up question to this non-answer, Pelosi's press secretary said, "That is not a serious question."
We think otherwise at The Heritage Foundation. So should all Americans who value the liberties which our Constitution protects. And once the mandate question is thoroughly examined through the lens of the Constitution's original meaning, the answer is inescapable: it is not constitutional.
"For those with a traditional understanding of the Constitution as a charter of liberty (as opposed to the 'living version'), the list of Congress' powers in Article I, Section 8, grants it no authority to require any such thing.
To defend their unprecedented expansion of federal power, Obamacare's proponents rely upon excessively broad interpretations of Congress' powers -- namely the powers to regulate interstate commerce and impose taxes.
Commerce and taxing power don't support mandate
In a recent legal memorandum, Heritage legal scholar Todd Gaziano, joined by Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett and Nathaniel Stewart, LLP, argues that the individual mandate is both unconstitutional and unprecedented.
Neither the power to regulate commerce nor the power to impose taxes grants Congress the power, they write, to "mandate that an individual enter into a contract with a private party or purchase a good or service and…no decision or present doctrine of the Supreme Court justifies such a claim of power."
Though many on the Left overlooked it, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service even recognized the constitutional obstacles to the individual mandate:
Whether such [an individual mandate] requirement would be constitutional under the Commerce Clause is perhaps the most challenging question posed by such a proposal, as it is a novel issue whether Congress may use this clause to require an individual to purchase a good or a service.
The Supreme Court has long held that there are limits to Congress' power under the Commerce Clause. An individual mandate would require stretching these limits. Although this has been done in the past, "the current Supreme Court is unlikely to stretch the commerce power further than it already has," explain Gaziano, Barnett and Stewart.
Congress' power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States...." also does not validate an individual mandate. The Constitution requires that a tax be apportioned on the basis of the census population, and not vary based upon factors such as the financial condition of the state's residents. "[But] this [constitutional] requirement will be impossible to meet based upon the variety of exceptions provided in the mandate," write Gaziano, Barnett and Stewart.
Interpreting the Constitution to support an individual mandate would open the door for future abuses.
If the individual mandate is Constitutional, then Congress could do anything. They could: require us to buy a new Chevy Impala each year to support the government-supported auto industry; require us to buy war bonds to pay for the Iraq and Afghan wars; require us to grow wheat (10 bushels each), or pay someone else to grow your share; require us to buy whatever they want.
"Politics may tell us what we want to do, but the Constitution tells us what we may do and we must keep those separate," Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said yesterday at a Heritage event on the Constitution's role in the health care debate. An individual mandate that forces all Americans to purchase health coverage or incur a penalty would blur this separation horribly. And that's a serious problem. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "No one is bound to obey an unconstitutional law,
and no courts are bound to enforce it."
-- American Jurisprudence, 2nd Edition
Source: 16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177, late 2d, Sec 256
"If the legislature clearly misinterprets a Constitutional provision,
the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right."
-- Amos v. Mosley
Source: 77 SO 619. Also see Kingsley v. Metril, 99 NW 1044
"The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he
knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the
creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men
begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants
are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is
endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but
also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not
inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires
that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is
impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are
powerless."
-- Aristotle
Source: Politics, Book V Chapter 11. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "People have become as processed as food."
-- Astrid Alauda
"The world is so dreadfully managed,
one hardly knows
Firbank] (1886-1926) British novelist
"Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence --
those are the three pillars of Western prosperity."
-- Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) Author
Source: Island | | comments: Leave a comment |
| If I told you a year ago, you won't recognize the country, you will not recognize America a year from now, I said that a year ago; if I told you instead that there would be a 9/11 Truther, a guy who said the United States government blew up those buildings, a self‑avowed communist, a guy who, a guy who is speaking in prison anticop, who defended a guy who point blank shot a cop in the head, if I said he would be a high level advisor to the president of the United States, would you believe it? If I said the president would come out in a speech and say I have absolutely no information but the cops acted stupidly because they caught a friend of the president appearing to break into his own home, the cops didn't act stupidly, they just did their job and the president would never apologize, instead he would invite them all for a beer summit and use it as a learning experience about diversity, would you believe it? If I would have told you instead of saying you won't recognize this country a year from now, if I instead told you I'm going to be on the cover of Time magazine, would you have believed it? That I'm going to be one of the ten most fascinating people in 2009, you've got to ask yourself what the hell happened to this country. If I would have told you instead that the most frequent visitor of the White House, over the Secretary of State and everybody else, is a labor union president who has repeatedly said workers of the world unite; and we know we've got a lot of illegal members, illegal aliens in our membership, and who chief guy said, yeah, but we also represent American workers, end quote, that he would be the most frequent visitor at the White House, would you have believed it? That the president of the EU would say that 2009 was the year of establishing a global government through the EU and that the climate change treaty would be the next step in one world government, that there would be a call for the end of the dollar as the world's reserve currency by several massive countries and that the leader of Russia would hold up a coin in front of the cameras and say here's a prototype of the new global currency, that in government‑structured bailouts, bondholders would lose their legal status and their investments in favor of labor union payoffs and the courts would say, "Hmmm, yeah, okay." That you could lose your home and property through eminent domain and eminent domain would expand in staggering ways. That California would decide to levy a 10% tax on its people and insist it's not a tax; it's just a forced loan. That they would issue IOUs instead of tax refunds. That New York would say by the end of the year they would be broke. That New York would issue retroactive taxes, that a tax fund for the poorest of Americans would not really be a tax refund. Instead those poorest of Americans would find out many months later that they had to pay income tax on that tax refund. If I told you that the symbol of capitalism, the Empire State building, would be lit in colors of communist China, would you have believed me? That the hockey stick chart would be discredited as would its founder along with another leader of the global climate change movement who manipulated data, that they deleted e‑mails and information to avoid Freedom of Information Act, that these same scientists would do everything they could to discredit the peer review process to make sure it remained pure for their ideological purposes, and yet the media wouldn't report on it and we'd still be headed to Copenhagen with a president the who was going to present a 17% reduction in carbon. For our country, that our science czar, John Holdren, our science czar would be someone who called for forced abortions and sterilization through the drinking water, who said that the redistribution of wealth would be necessary and it would happen through the environmental movement. That the diversity czar at the FCC, if I just told you a year ago there would be a diversity czar at the FCC, would you have believed me? That the diversity czar at the FCC would say Americans have to decide soon which Americans would have to step down from their positions in order to give others a chance, that this same man said the revolution in Venezuela was incredible and that we should model our FCC and our programs after Venezuela and the revolution. That the U.S. would have a two‑day summit to discuss the role of government in journalism and be discussing a government takeover of journalism and that no journalist would actually report on that. That they would hold a job summit and not invite the Chamber of Commerce, that two uninvited people could get into the White House state dinner, chat with the president, be near the prime minister of the largest democracy on the planet and that the response from the White House would be, yeah, we need to do a better job with security. That a U.S. congressman would tell the American people that it's unreasonable to expect people in congress to read bills, and he would say that because our congress would pass two bills over 1,000 pages, that no one in congress had read. One of them was over 2,000 pages. That a job creating stimulus bill would be written, not read by congress but not even written by congress. It would be co‑written by the Apollo Alliance, a special interest group whose New York chief was a co‑founder of the Weather Underground and no one would care! That people in congress would openly be praising Castro, Chavez, that the president would receive an ‑‑ if I said to you a year ago, "You know what's going to happen next year: The president is going to receive an anti‑American book and a photo op from Hugo Chavez and then he would have a one‑hour private meeting with Vladimir Putin where Vladimir Putin, quoting, would teach the president the history of the Cold War. That our president would give an iPod of his speeches to the queen of England. That he would send the bust of Winston Churchill, which was a gift from the people of England; when the prime minister came over that our president would say to him, hey, by the way attention thanks, but you can take this back to him now and the prime minister would say to him, no, no, no, that was a gift from the people of England to you and you can keep it in one of your museums; we gave it to you on September 11th. No, no, that's okay, and box it up and ship it back!
If I told you that there would be hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in a true grassroots event in a National Mall in D.C. and the media would not only dismiss them but the government, the president and the media would deem them a danger to the United States, that healthcare would be at 36% approval rating, which is lower than Hillary Care but that those in congress and the White House would still be jamming it down your throats. That the chief of the treasury who oversees the IRS cheated on his taxes as would almost everyone else in the cabinet. If I told you a year ago when gold was about $800 an ounce that it would be at $1200 an ounce, would you have believed it? That Dubai which a year ago was bailing out our banks would be on the edge of bankruptcy. If I told you we're going to lose 4 million jobs and the media would report that the White House has created or saved a million jobs even though in their evidence you have to find their evidence on a $20 million redesigned website where it would show that a good portion of these jobs were in about 400 districts that don't even exist. If I told you that, would you have believed it? Looking at that list, do you recognize the country that you live in? Is this the same country that you lived in a year ago today? I don't think so. I don't recognize it. If I would have told you that there would be a Muslim terrorist and that he would shoot and killed soldiers at Fort Hood, would you have believed it? If I told you then that, yes, the president will make a statement but he will spend two minutes prior to giving a shoutout and talking about the conference he had with the American Indian, would you have believed it? If I then told you after that two minutes he would then say then, oh, and also there's been a shooting of our military but let's not jump to conclusions. And then his Homeland Security director would be over in the Middle East and she would say, don't worry, we're working on things to stop the violence against Muslims in America, would you have believed it?
I can be wrong on an awful lot of things and I have been wrong on an awful lot of things. But when will people in this country, when will the media at least say, gosh, it looks like the direction of our country and the one this guy keeps laying out, gee, some of those things seem to be happening. When will anyone in the media even notice how far we have come?
Where did it go wrong????????? | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they
know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more
about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen
via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?"
-- Brock Fiant
"I think we risk becoming the best informed
society that has ever died of ignorance."
-- Reuben Blades
[Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna] (1948- ) Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-- Krishnamurti
"The public is hedged about by so many goddam bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce. More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food."
-- Martin H. Fischer
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
-- Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system" | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| "The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
-- Erich Fromm
(1900-1980)
"The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live
beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the
substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of
action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness,
independence, personal dignity, all vanish."
-- Frederic Bastiat
(1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848
Source: Sophisms, 141 | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,
but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
-- Marcus Aurelius
[Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus] (121-180) Roman emperor (161-180) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal."
-- Emma Goldman
an “anarcho-communist” who has been lionized as an iconic “rebel woman” feminist
"Censorship is telling a man
he can't have a steak
just because a baby can't chew it."
-- Mark Twain
[Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and
therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet,
plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary…. The
provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less
expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that
expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The
audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical
restraint."
-- Thomas I. Emerson
Source: The System of Freedom of Expression, 1970 | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Healthcare bill taxes
When polling Americans about healthcare, there are ways to get two very different answers to the same question. If you ask people “should everyone be required to have healthcare?” the answer comes back 67% yes, 27% no. But, when the question is rephrased to "should we require everybody to carry insurance, or face a federal penalty?” it flips and 64% say no, and 28% yes. Perhaps if the media would bother reporting on all of the new taxes this plan carries with it, support would dip even lower?
WHo the fuck would have though in the land of the free !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANd if this is what you want than you are one stupid fuck!!!!! This freedom stealing tax hiking lump of shit of a bill is 2000 pages of garbage.... It goes on and on Tax everything.
If it passes your life as you remember it is quite over.
COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF ALL TAX HIKES
IN SENATE GOVERNMENT HEALTH BILL: H.R. 3590
Individual Mandate Tax (Page 324/Sec. 1501/$8 bil): Starting in 2014, anyone not buying
“qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax according to the following schedule
(capped at 8 percent of income):
Employer Mandate Tax (Page 348/Sec. 1513/$28 bil): If an employer does not offer health
coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit, the employer must pay
an additional non-deductible tax of $750 for all full-time employees. Applies to all
employers with 50 or more employees.
If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage of 30-60 days, there is a $400
tax per employee ($600 if the period is 60 days or longer).
Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans (Page 1979/Sec. 9001/$149.1 bil):
Starting in 2013, new 40 percent excise tax on “Cadillac” health insurance plans ($8500
single/$23,000 family). Higher threshold ($9850 single/$26,000 family) for early retirees and
high-risk professions. CPI +1 percentage point indexed.
From 2013-2015, the 17 highest-cost states are 120% of this level.
Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 (Page 1996/Sec. 9002/Min$): Preamble to
taxing health benefits on individual tax returns.
Medicine Cabinet Tax (Page 1997/Sec. 9003/$5 bil): No longer allowable to use health
savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA)
pre-tax dollars to purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin)
HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike (Page 1998/Sec. 9004/$1.3 bil): Increases additional tax on nonmedical
early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative
to IRAs and other tax-advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
FSA Cap (Page 1999/Sec. 9005/$14.6 bil): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (now unlimited).
Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting (Page 1999/Sec. 9006/$17.1 bil): Requires
businesses to send 1099-MISC information tax forms to corporations (currently limited to
individuals), a huge compliance burden for small employers
Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Page 2001/Sec. 9007/Min$): $50,000 per hospital if
they fail to meet new “community health assessment needs,” “financial assistance,” and
“billing and collection” rules set by HHS.
Tax on Innovator Drug Companies (Page 2010/Sec. 9008/$22.2 bil): $2.3 billion annual tax
on the industry imposed relative to share of sales made that year.
Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers (Page 2020/Sec. 9009/$19.3 bil): $2 billion annual
tax on the industry imposed relative to shares of sales made that year. Exempts items
retailing for <$100.
Tax on Health Insurers (Page 2026/Sec. 9010/$60.4 bil): $6.7 billion annual tax on the
industry imposed relative to health insurance premiums collected that year.
Eliminate tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in
coordination with Medicare Part D (Page 2034/Sec. 9012/$5.4 bil)
Raise “Haircut” for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI (Page
2034/Sec. 9013/$15.2 bil): Waived for 65+ taxpayers in 2013-2016 only
$500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives
(Page 2035/Sec. 9014/$0.6 bil)
Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax (Page 2040/Sec. 9015/$53.8 bil): Current law and changes:
Read it all all the taxes.:: http://www.atr.org/userfiles/111809pr-comptaxreid%282%29.pdf | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "There’s no longer any left or right. There’s the system and the enemies of the system."
-- Eduard Limonov
founder of the National Bolshevik Party in Russia
"We are sure living in a peculiar time.
You get more for not working than you will for working,
and more for not raising a hog than for raising it."
-- Will Rogers
(1879-1935) American humorist
"All history is one long story to this effect:
men have struggled for power over their fellow men
in order that they might win the joys
of earth at the expense of others,
might shift the burdens of life
from their own shoulders upon those of others."
-- William Graham Sumner
(1840-1910) American academic and professor at Yale College | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. ... Every man who parrots the cry of “stand by the President” without adding the proviso “so far as he serves the Republic” takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919) 26th US President
Source: Works, vol. 21, pp. 316, 321
"Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of England
"Our job is to give people not what they want,
but what we decide they ought to have."
-- Richard Salant
(1914-1993) former President of CBS News
Wow that last guy said point blank (can you say, state run Media? ) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Putting one-fifth of America on welfare
The Left's health care "reform" plan will dramatically expand eligibility for Medicaid, a poorly-functioning program created in the 1960s to help low-income families.
The Health care "reform" bills advancing in the House and Senate would expand Medicaid by making this government-run health plan available to all adults with incomes at or below 150% of the poverty line. The change would dramatically multiply eligible recipients, with 46 states seeing increases of at least 20%, including 16 posting jumps of 50% or more. Almost 21% of the entire U.S. population would be eligible for Medicaid and seven states and the District of Columbia would have eligibility rates of at least 25%. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Global Warming Ate My Homework: 100 Things Blamed on Global Warming
Cap and trade proposes a new national tax of historic proportions.
Late for a party? Miss a meeting? Forget to pay your rent? Blame climate change; everyone else is doing it. From an increase in severe acne to all societal collapses since the beginning of time, just about everything gone wrong in the world today can be attributed to climate change. Here’s a list of 100 storylines blaming climate change as the problem.
The deaths of Aspen trees in the West
Incredible shrinking sheep
Caribbean coral deaths
Eskimo’s forced to leave their village
Disappearing lake in Chile
Early heat wave in Vietnam
Malaria and water-borne diseases in Africa
Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
Break in the Arctic Ice Shelf
Monsoons in India
Birds laying their eggs early
160,000 deaths a year
315,000 deaths a year
300,000 deaths a year
Decline in snowpack in the West
Deaths of walruses in Alaska
Hunger in Nepal
The appearance of oxygen-starved dead zones in the oceans
Surge in fatal shark attacks
Increasing number of typhoid cases in the Philippines
Boy Scout tornado deaths
Rise in asthma and hayfever
Duller fall foliage in 2007
Floods in Jakarta
Radical ecological shift in the North Sea
Snowfall in Baghdad
Western tree deaths
Diminishing desert resources
Pine beetles
Swedish beetles
Severe acne
Global conflict
Crash of Air France 447
Black Hawk Down incident
Amphibians breeding earlier
Flesh-eating disease
Global cooling
Bird strikes on US Airways 1549
Beer tastes different
Cougar attacks in Alberta
Suicide of farmers in Australia
Squirrels reproduce earlier
Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya
Confusion of migrating birds
Bigger tuna fish
Water shortages in Las Vegas
Worldwide hunger
Longer days
Earth spinning faster
Gender balance of crocodiles
Skin cancer deaths in UK
Increase in kidney stones in India
Penguin chicks frozen by global warming
Deaths of Minnesota moose
Increased threat of HIV/AIDS in developing countries
Increase of wasps in Alaska
Killer stingrays off British coasts
All societal collapses since the beginning of time
Bigger spiders
Increase in size of giant squid
Increase of orchids in UK
Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden
Cow infertility
Conflict in Darfur
Bluetongue outbreak in UK cows
Worldwide wars
Insomnia of children worried about global warming
Anxiety problems for people worried about climate change
Migration of cockroaches
Taller mountains due to melting glaciers
Drowning of four polar bears
UFO sightings in the UK
Hurricane Katrina
Greener mountains in Sweden
Decreased maple in maple trees
Cold wave in India
Worse traffic in LA because immigrants moving north
Increase in heart attacks and strokes
Rise in insurance premiums
Invasion of European species of earthworm in UK
Cold spells in Australia
Increase in crime
Boiling oceans
Grizzly deaths
Dengue fever
Lack of monsoons
Caterpillars devouring 45 towns in Liberia
Acid rain recovery
Global wheat shortage; food price hikes
Extinction of 13 species in Bangladesh
Changes in swan migration patterns in Siberia
The early arrival of Turkey’s endangered caretta carettas
Radical North Sea shift
Heroin addiction
Plant species climbing up mountains
Deadly fires in Australia
Droughts in Australia
The demise of California’s agriculture by the end of the century
Tsunami in South East Asia
100. Fashion victim: the death of the winter wardrobe
And the list goes on. The truth is climate change is causing some of these events, but the earth’s average temperature has been increasing and decreasing since the beginning of time. Maybe the increase in UFO sightings can’t be pinpointed to climate change but certainly animals will adapt to new habitats as the climate changes. But climate change and adaptation to it is nothing new. There’s an underlying assumption that human activity is causing the climate to change in many of these stories, but the scientific consensus on what causes climate change is anything but a consensus. Temperatures have risen and fallen many times before and the earth was cooling as recently as the period from the 1940s to the 1970s giving rise to fears of a coming ice age:
“At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."
The other implication of this list is that a reduction in Co2 with cap and trade policies like Waxman-Markey and Boxer-Kerry will cure problems as disparate as hurricanes, wars, crime, hunger and…cow infertility. The problem is that no one can actually claim that a reduction of Co2 will prevent these occurrences; one can only speculate that they will be worse in a world that has more rather than less Co2. Given cap and trade’s massive economic consequences and negligible effects on the earth’s temperature, this is a bold and potentially very costly speculation. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Keeping up with Obama
He's been a busy guy this weekend - first, he had to delay plans for climate change action, even though he previously stated ‘delay is not an option.’ Then he had to bow down to another foreign leader, this time it was in Japan. And, for good measure, this lover of the Earth traveled around in China with a 71 car motorcade. Oh, it's good to be King! Uh, President.
Healthcare - Where are the lawyers?
Only 34% of people actually want government running their healthcare, but special interests are keeping the bill alive. Special interest groups like the AARP who stand to make huge profits on gap insurance if the bill passes. And what about attorneys? Haven't heard any of them speak out against the bill.
"If you are afraid to speak against tyranny,
then you are already a slave."
-- John “Birdman” Bryant
self labeled as “The World’s Most Controversial Author”
"The enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans
think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of
the dominant political mythology."
-- Michael Parenti
political scientist and author
"One of the common failings among honorable people is
a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable
some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
-- Thomas Sowell
(1930- ) Writer and economist
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different...
Two Different Versions....
Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the
winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool
and laughs and dances and plays the summer
away.
Come winter, the ant is warm
and well fed.
The grasshopper has no
food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all
summer long, building his house and laying up
supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool
and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper
calls a press conference and demands to know why the
ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold
and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering
grasshopper next to a video of the ant
in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on
Oprah with the grasshopper
and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy
Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the
ant's house where the news stations film the group singing,
“We shall overcome.” Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the
group kneel down to pray to God for the
grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant
and blames President Bush, President Reagan,
Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for
the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid
exclaim in an interview with
Larry King that the ant
has gotten rich off the back
of the grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the
ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts
the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper
Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate
number of green bugs
and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive
taxes, his home is confiscated by the
Government Green Czar and given to the
grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the
grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last
bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as
you recall, just happens to be the ant's old
house, crumbles around them because the
grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and
the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a
gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and
once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with
it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2010. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Obama's Fuzzy Math
What is a 'saved' job exactly? Most economists are left scratching their heads because it's a completely made up statistic. Well, finally some numbers are coming in on what the government considers a saved job. The results are astounding -- not because they were a success. They were astounding because this is one of the worst attempts at spin in political history - claiming jobs 'successes' in the midst of 10.2% unemployment and shedding 2.2 million jobs.
What journalism looks like
Jake Tapper, one of the few guys in the press who actually gets it and hammers both sides, sat down with the President and gave him a thorough questioning on healthcare and more. Fair yet tough, all journalists should take notice of what Tapper does on a day to day basis to both Republicans and Democrats. He presses the President on many sticking points including federal funding for abortions and possible jail time for not purchasing healthcare. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| If Cap and Trade Doesn't Work, Obama Will Make It Work
Cap and Trade proposes a new national tax of historic proportions
All the talk in Washington is surrounding a government health insurance plan, but there’s a little discussed insurance plan in the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade bill that’s worth some attention. The Senate version of the cap and trade bill includes a section that grants the President the authority to “direct relevant federal agencies” to impose additional greenhouse gas regulations. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) and John Barrasso (R-WY) have been working assiduously to uncover the true costs of cap and trade legislation.
Greenhouse gas concentrations are measured in parts per million (ppm). Many global warming alarmists believe that upper limit on carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions in order to prevent catastrophic harm is 450 parts per million (ppm). Once we reach that threshold, water will rise to the torch of the Statue of Liberty, California will be an island, the polar ice caps will cease to exist and island nations will no longer be nations but submerged pieces of land. To put the numbers in some perspective, Sharon Begley notes in her Newsweek column that the carbon dioxide concentration is currently at 386 ppm; we were at 280ppm before the Industrial Revolution. If you include the carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gases, we’ve arguably reached the 450 ppm threshold. The Boxer-Kerry legislation says that if global greenhouse gas concentrations exceed 450 parts per million of carbon dioxide equivalent:
Sec. 707 Not later than July 1, 2015, and every 4 years thereafter--
`(1) the President shall direct relevant Federal agencies to use existing statutory authority to take appropriate actions identified in the reports submitted under sections 705 and 706 and to address any shortfalls identified in such reports.
The passed House version, Waxman-Markey, also contains language that grant the administration similar authority. So, for those who thought cap and trade legislation would preempt costly regulations, think again. This is more or less an insurance policy that would allow EPA officials regulate just about every aspect of the market and guarantees there will be economic pain. Even EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said, “We get further faster without top-down regulation.” Added regulations on top of cap and trade would be a bureaucratic nightmare that could delay economic projects and tie them up in litigation and result in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in compliance costs.
If we’ve learned anything from the health care debate, it’s that companies shouldn’t trust government promises that their bottom lines will not be affected. Proponents of a government-run option made repeated claims that private businesses would remain competitive but Karen Ignagni, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, recently sent a letter to the White House and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi saying the plan “would bankrupt hospitals, dismantle employer coverage.
The same can be said for cap and trade. In order to garner business support, Members promised generous allowance revenue handouts for various industries and special interests. President Obama originally called for an auction of the emission allowances, forcing companies to bid on the right to emit. Businesses, knowing very well this would impose a severe cost on their bottom line, sent their lobbyists to Washington to protect them. And it worked – at least they thought it did. Sections 705-707 of the Boxer-Kerry cap and trade bill would pile costly regulations on these allegedly protected companies. And these costs would be passed onto the consumer, making the bill all that more painful.
Even if we are only at 386 ppm, the way China and other developing countries are growing and refusing to cap greenhouse gas emissions, global greenhouse gas concentrations could reach 450 ppm in no time. George Will writes, “On Oct. 21, China, the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases, and India, which ranks fourth -- together they account for 26 percent of emissions -- jointly agreed: They, with their combined one-third of the world's population, will not play in what increasingly resembles a global game of climate-change charades. Neither nation is interested in jeopardizing its economic growth with emissions caps of a sort that never impeded the growth of the developed nations that now praise them.”
With the rate of growth of global greenhouse gas emissions, cap and trade paired with top down regulation assures economic pain for every part of the economy, especially the American energy consumer, with nothing to show for it.
But this is the change along with no reading of any bill that is pased, a president whom can't make a decision on our troops, a government taking control of 1/6 of our economy and telling it's people that if they do not get Healthcare then it is Jail time.
I would just like to ask all the defeat mongers/socialist idiots have they never read the constitution that little oath that is taken to uphold and defend it's principles?
American dream??????? Freedom, choice, liberty???? I guess not it is truly sad that the way of Tar and feather has become so unpopular!!!!! | | comments: Leave a comment |
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