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FARE THEE WELL!

2007-06-21T14:35:00.000-05:00

Dear blogging friends and family, I am going on an extended leave of absence from the blogging world, and regret that I will have to discontinue the postings at my personal site and the Berean site. I would like to thank all of you for contributing toward my education--you have shared in my personal growth. I do appreciate your prayers and continued support of the Berean as it continues under new leadership. Also, stay tuned for the new changes to come as the Bereans transitions into - www.CommonSenseChristian.com If God wills, I may return, but until then a fond farewell to you and may God bless. -Jack

MONEY AS DEBT

2007-05-24T15:26:00.000-05:00

Hat Tip: Ann! (www.peoplesgeography.com)

NEWLY UPDATED!

2007-05-16T15:54:00.000-05:00

News Snipet Global Warming Resources - edit

OFFICIAL NEWS SNIPET GLOBAL WARMING STATEMENT

2007-05-14T15:23:00.000-05:00

I discuss global warming on a lot of blogs. Global warming is a primary concern to many people. It seems to have trumped world poverty and disease, and the discussion of our freedoms, and seems to be second only to the war in Iraq. The following post is my official position on climate change. I am posting it for friends or fellow bloggers for purpose of referral.

Jack's Official Global Warming...Climate Change Position

1. I believe there may be global warming. Of course, the jury is still out on that one, but I don't particularly discount it.

2. I believe that science is too young to factually establish that global warming is anthropogenic. I am not saying that it isn't anthropogenic, just that it has not been established.

3. I believe that we have a generation of scientist who are untrustworthy in their presentation of data. While science doesn't lie, scientist are subject to the shortcomings of any human and have and do.

4. I believe that even if it is established that there is global warming and that it is anthropogenic, that it would hardly be possible to predict that it will be a crisis of monumental proportions that will bring about the extinction of our planet and its lifeforms.

5. I believe that the contemporary issue is driven more by politics and ideology than science, and it has tainted any evidence we have one way or the other beyond its usability. If the debate became strictly scientific we may arrive at a conclusive position, but until that happens we never will.

Expansion on points above:

1. Global warming AND cooling is supported scientifically. It has happened since the planet has been here. Apparently it is a natural cycle that existed eons before man even walked the planet, and quite possibly will happen long after we're gone.

2. As long as there are two opposing "scientific views" with supportable scientific data, it is not an established fact that we are going to face catastrophe from anthropogenic global warming. Neither side has an established case, nor can it. The jury is still out--if you have made up your mind already you are either:

Ignorant,
Gullible, or
An ideological nut case.

(And I say this will all due respect!)

3. Keep in mind that it has been scientists (not science) that has told us that:

the world was flat,

that a nuclear bomb detonation would destroy the whole world,

that leaching blood would cure disease,

that the earth's population today would be 10 times greater than it is,

that the universe revolves around the earth,

that the Titanic was unsinkable,

that continents do not shift, etc.

It is also scientist who have lived off the accumulation of unbelievable sums of money in the name of science. SETI comes to mind--an amazingly expensive mechanism and project listening for the mother ship--aliens! I'm amazed they didn't hear the ET's that came and took away all those poor souls from the Heaven's Gate cult. It would be foolish to believe that the countless monies being spent on global warming research does insert a degree of bias into the "scientific" equation.

Scientific error, says Robert Park, "has a way of evolving ... from self-delusion to fraud. I use the term voodoo science to cover them all: pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience, and fraudulent science." In pathological science, scientists fool themselves. Junk science refers to scientists who use their expertise to befuddle and mislead others (usually juries or lawmakers). Pseudoscience has the trappings of science without any evidence. Fraudulent science is, well, fraud--old-fashioned lying.

4. Man has been crying the destruction of the world from the street corner for as long as we have recorded history. "Repent, for the day is at hand." is a cry familiar to all of us. As human beings, we are fascinated with catastrophe and crises--it is what sells in our media, what fuels our weather channels, and what dominates our conversation on a daily basis. It is also our propensity to create fantastical scenarios where they are not, sometimes as a means of self-affirmation, sometimes to control the behavior of others, and sometimes simply for the thrill of the moment.

5. This is the crux of the matter. It doesn't matter what the evidence will say. The earth could be covered completely with ice from pole to pole from an ice age and it would not matter. Facts are immaterial to the political and religiously ideological mindset. With the intellectual and powerful--the issue is political, with the ignorant and simple-minded it is ideological. The rich and powerful will use this issue to leverage power and the all-too-willing sheep who follow them will be more than accommodating because of the emotional and spiritual affirmation they receive as a byproduct. While it may be scientists who may be swayed by money to present less than factual data, it is often the hangup of our leaders to exploit issues for their own profit or power. How many "crises" have we faced? Counting down from the most recent: 1. Recession 2. Oil depletion, 3. Energy, 4. Outsourcing, 5. WMD's, 6. Y2K, 7. Asteroid, 8. Ice age. The list is endless.

Also, keep in mind that as we progress, every time there is an climatic anomaly that doesn't support the global "warming" model, the term "climate change" will be used. For example, we have experienced record cool temperatures in the the South United States for this time of year. The reason is because of "climate change", which is "global warming" propagandized. (Sort of like in the '70s when pro-abortion became "pro-choice").

Conclusion:

The News Snipet has been and is about making predictions. The prediction is that governments world-wide will use this issue as a means of increasing taxation and regulation. They will use is as a means of taking freedoms and eliminating personal property. Many people will suffer as a result of draconian policies that are issued based on faulty data. Problems like world poverty and disease will be placed on the back burner for a pipe dream.

Collateral damage in the WAR ON CLIMATE CHANGE.

Visit here for your Global Warming Fix.

ANOTHER BLOGGER MAKES HISTORY! DISCOVERS LINK BETWEEN EARTH AND MARS GLOBAL WARMING!

2007-05-03T14:50:00.000-05:00

Climate change hits Mars-News-UK-TimesOnline: "Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap."

The Mystery!

It has been discovered that the planet Mars is experiencing global warming since the 1970's in line with our own Earth. Since contemporary science has factually established that Earth's problem is caused by increased CO2 emissions due to human activity, it has left many scientists scratching their heads about Mars. Mars' atmosphere is already 95% carbon dioxide, so even if it increased to 100% it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference--not to account for the rapid warming that we are witnessing on such a grand Martian scale. Scientist have failed to take into consideration other greenhouse gases in this equation however.

A Suspect?

Not long ago, it was reported that greenhouse gas emissions from cows contribute toward our global warming dilemma. Man's insatiable appetite for beef drove a precipitous increase in the bovine population. Earth Church indicated that solutions were being sought for this problem, and everything from cattle-itic converters (attachable smog pumps for cows) to gengineered grass has been considered. Just recently the EU (European Union) suggested a "Cow Bean-o" type approach to decrease alarmingly rising cow emissions.

Putting it together - Mystery Solved!

Since the 1960's cattle abductions have increased. Figure 1. above closely resembles the accepted model used by scientist to prove anthropogenic global warming (fig. 2 below).

There is an observable spike during the "cooling period" during the 1970's in cattle abductions, an anomaly which most assuredly accounted for the decrease in temperatures during that time period on earth, (cattle population dropped precipitously), which started the trend toward warming on Mars in the 1970s*. It is obvious that the increase in the martian cattle population caused increases in that other deadly greenhouse gas, methane, to rise to dangerous levels giving rise to the latest trend in Martian global warming.

Conclusion!

Global warming is taking place on Mars for the same reason it is taking place on earth. It is due to ANTHROPOGENIC greenhouse gases.

MAN AND HIS WANTON APPETITES CREATED A COW GLUT WHICH CAUSED BOVINTHROPOGENIC WARMING WHICH ULTIMATELY HAS LEAD TO ALIENOPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING. MAN--ULTIMATELY TO BLAME FOR GLOBAL WARMING ON MARS.

ARCHIVE OF EVIDENCE

Pictured: Cows Grazing on Mars

Video Evidence of Abduction

Photo of actual cow abduction

*There are two questions brought up here. Why is there a steady increase in cow production in light of so many abductions? Why was there increased alien earth activity during the 70s? Theories under consideration for the first question extend from "herd trimming"-(similar to hunting deer in order to increase deer population) to the "increase in vegans." Theories concerning the second are from "alien fascination with the free love movement" to the "advent of George Lucas' Star Wars."

History will remember us Bloggers:

Bloggers forced Trent Lott to step down as majority leader for racist comments
Bloggers uncovered forgery behind Dan Rather's "Bush Military Documents"
Bloggers, using same scientific criteria earth scientist use to establish anthropenic global warming, uncover link between Mars and Earth's global warming.

SAINTS BE PRAISED! « The Church of the Earth

2007-04-29T18:34:00.000-05:00

THE NEWS SNIPET OPENED ANOTHER SITE TO KEEP TRACK OF THE GLOBAL WARMING INSANITY. IT IS CALLED WWW.EARCHCHURCH.WORDPRESS.COM. UNFORTUNATELY, IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME AND ENERGY TO MAINTAIN SUCH. THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS POSTED BY JACK AS A PARODY. COMPLETELY NOT SERIOUS.

SAINTS BE PRAISED! « The Church of the Earth: "NSP. President George W. Bush, one of our newest acolytes, in cooperation with the new church committee formed by Bishop Nancy Pelosi are working on new ways to combat the warming of our Great God/ess Mother Earth. Since it is a known fact that the cow population in the world produce more methane emissions resulting in more CO2 than all of the cars in the world combined, approximately $1 Billion has been appropriated to research to combat cow flatulence.

Green Technologies, a subsidiary of Soros Industries, received a grant of approximately $33 million for a feasibility study for attachable smog pumps. These smog pumps would be attached to the cows’ rear end, and include their own catalytic converter. Proposed legislation that would go along with this would be annual cow emission inspections.

Vegan Biotech, received a grant for $55 million to gengineer grass–biotechnically altering the genetic structure of grass. Initial tests have been inconclusive, but the Bishop Pelosi has already given the go ahead to raize the entire grazing lands world wide and replace it with “Less-Gas Grass” (patent pending).

Other monies have been allocated to Beano to develop Cow-Beano, complete with legislation requiring random blood tests for bovines and a new agency to head this initiative.

GLORY, GLORY"

JACK WAS JUST KIDDING...BUT...HERE IT IS!

The Sun Online - News: New law sounds full of hot air: "The official EU declaration demands changes to animals’ diets, to capture gas emissions and recycle manure."

THE CONTEMPORARY CHURCH OF WESTERN WHITE LIBERALISM

2007-04-26T10:33:00.000-05:00

Recently a friend, Doug, got fed up and let loose on an issue. He was tired of mincing words and being diplomatic, and just wanted to tell it like it is.

The News Snipet is going to do the same.

Not long ago, the News Snipet pointed out that white western liberals throughout the world are faced with a new dilemma. One of their pet issues, global warming, was going to clash with another of their pet issues, poverty.

Visit here for the full article

Contemporary white western liberalism is a religion, and behaves like any other religion--it is all about controlling others based on "religious" principles without consideration of the original message and its intent.

In the name of tolerance, one becomes ultimately intolerant.
Broad mindedness ultimately becomes narrow-minded.
Non-discrimination becomes in discrimination which ultimately becomes discrimination.

One can only expect, that the results of this widespread and popular religion will yield the same fruit of any "theocracy."

The banners have been unfurled, and as "Onward Liberal Soldiers, marching as to war" swells from rank and file the machine grinds underfoot any opposition. Collateral damage is expected and acceptable, because the cause is self-affirmingly righteous.

This religious hysteria is beginning to harm people who are close to me, like Mr. Bobbie, not only that, but the effects are touching many world wide.

AOL News reports just one example:

"This week's story that no one read and everyone should have is about tortilla riots in Mexico. Yes, tortilla riots. In Mexico. Some 75,000 people protesting the rising price of tortillas.

Not to be overly blunt, but who cares, right? It's just a single grocery item in some other country. But the reason the people are up in arms is more important than anyone realizes.

Poor Mexicans rely on tortillas for their diet. And a lot of other poor people in a lot of other places rely on other foodstuffs made from corn.

The problem is ethanol. Ethanol, that fuel additive that reduces pollution and helps us wean our dependency on foreign oil and makes farmers rich and politicians look silly when they stump in Iowa. As the U.S. adds more ethanol to its gasoline, the price of corn is surging dramatically, leading to extreme market volatility."

While its religious leaders like Al Gore, a small, despicable and self-absorbed man who fancies himself the savior of the world, purchase "energy credits" (See HERE and HERE)and jet around the world preaching the gospel of "DO AS I SAY DO, NOT AS I DO", people are going to bed hungry at night.

While its religious groupies, like Sheryl Crowe who don't comprehend that much of the world can't even afford toilet paper, much less luxuriate in 1-3 sheets, engage in orgiastic consumption, old people are going to die from a lack of heating and cooling.

The blood of millions of innocents drips from the the hands of the world's religions and its warmongers, and this religion is no different.

This coming winter, many poor people will experience cold like never before because of liberal "green" energy policy and its impact on utilities.
This coming year, many poor people will go hungry as a result of misguided and moronic policies like the one mentioned above.
This coming decade more people will be pushed lower down the economic scale as a result of skyrocketing energy prices, regulation and taxation.

All for actions based on "all available evidence" pointing to something that doesn't exist.

Western white liberals, you have lost your moral authority to judge the likes of President Bush and his war machine. Your policies will make he and his cronies look like amateurs. You have lost your moral authority to point at the military-industrial complex and its death and destruction. You have lost your moral authority because your hands are covered with the same filth you claim to loathe.

Western white liberals used to think.
Western white liberals used to care.

But what was once a faith, is now just another dominating religion.

To read stories of other religious people who forgot what it was all about and had become with the "collateral damage" of their belief systems go here

DUH!!

2007-04-26T09:35:00.000-05:00

FT.com / In depth - Industry caught in carbon ‘smokescreen’: "Industry caught in carbon ‘smokescreen’ By Fiona Harvey and Stephen Fidler in London Published: April 25 2007 22:07 | Last updated: April 25 2007 22:07

Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on “carbon credit” projects that yield few if any environmental benefits."

OK, MY DEMOCRAT LIBERAL FRIENDS..

2007-04-25T20:00:00.000-05:00

I'M WAITING FOR YOUR SCREAM OF OUTRAGE!

Clinton: We may need to confront Iran | Jerusalem Post: "Democratic presidential candidate and New York Senator Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that it might be necessary for America to confront Iran militarily, addressing that possibility more directly than any of the other presidential candidates who spoke this week to the National Jewish Democratic Council."

GLOBAL WARMING

2007-04-25T16:09:00.000-05:00

THERE ARE SO MANY INTERESTING ARTICLES ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING THAT THE NEWS SNIPET HAS CHOSEN TO CREATE A RESOURCE PAGE FOR YOUR USE. TO ACCESS IT PLEASE LOOK IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN NEAR THE BOTTOM FOR "GLOBAL WARMING RESOURCES"

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS

2007-04-25T15:27:00.000-05:00

THE LEFT ONCE AGAINST ASSAULTS THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Dean: Bar Media and Candidates Will Talk: "Dean: Bar Media and Candidates Will Talk The head of the Democratic Party said Wednesday that the best way to get presidential candidates to talk frankly about issues is to lock out the media. During the Mortgage Bankers Association conference, a banker expressed frustration with candidates who only talk in sound bites and wondered how that could be changed. Howard Dean, once a presidential candidate, offered a simple solution.

'I suggest you have candidates in to meetings like this and bar the press,' Dean said. "

THE SNIPET HAS WRITTEN NUMEROUS ARTICLES ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE LEFT'S ASSAULT ON IT. FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO THE LEFT MEANS THEY ARE FREE TO SAY WHAT THEY WANT.

http://newssnipet.blogspot.com/2007/01/freedom-of-speech.html

http://newssnipet.blogspot.com/2006/04/blogtegrity.html

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181503705&subSection=Columns

"Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' -- it is profoundly unconscious." Louis Althusser

MORE GOOD NEWS FOR THE UNDERPRIVILEGED!

2007-04-25T09:51:00.000-05:00

$4 PRESCRIPTIONS, THE CHEAPEST GAS IN TOWN, AND NOW THIS!

Wal-Mart to open 400 in-store clinics | Health | Reuters.com: "NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said on Tuesday that it will contract with local hospitals and other organizations to open as many as 400 in-store health clinics in the next two to three years.

Should current market forces continue, the world's largest retailer said up to 2,000 clinics could be in Wal-Mart stores over the next five to seven years."

HARRY FEIF

2007-04-24T11:53:00.000-05:00

ITS A WASTE OF TIME, INHOFE!

2007-04-24T07:37:00.000-05:00

GW ALARMISTS LIKE HOLLYWOOD AND GORE ARE ALL ABOUT TELLING OTHERS WHAT TO DO, NOT ABOUT DOING THEMSELVES. IT'S A RELIGION, AND THATS WHAT RELIGIOUS FANATICS DO.

Inhofe dares Hollywood to take warming pledge - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "Inhofe dares Hollywood to take warming pledge By Eric Pfeiffer THE WASHINGTON TIMES April 24, 2007

A leading skeptic of global-warming science is challenging celebrity activists such as Al Gore and Sheryl Crow to lower their 'carbon footprint' to the same level as the average American by Earth Day in April 2008.

'I simply believe that former Vice President Al Gore and his Hollywood friends who demand we change the way we live to avert this over-hyped 'crisis' not only talk the talk, but walk the walk,' said Sen. James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma Republican. "

MEDIA GUN SPIN...

2007-04-24T07:30:00.000-05:00

INTERESTING NOTE OF THE DAY: DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE MORE DEATHS FROM AUTOMOBILES BEING USED AS DEADLY WEAPONSPER YEAR THAN FROM ALL OTHER WEAPONS COMBINED? AS THE OLD SAYING GOES: "IF CARS ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY WOMEN WILL HAVE CARS"

Poll Finds Twice as Many Blame Culture as Guns, But ABC Spikes It --4/24/2007-- Media Research Center: "Poll Finds Twice as Many Blame Culture as Guns, But ABC Spikes It

ABC News polling chief Gary Langer, in a posting buried on ABCNews.com, revealed that a poll taken Sunday discovered that when 'asked the primary cause of gun violence, far more Americans blamed the effects of popular culture (40 percent) or the way parents raise their children (35 percent) than the availability of guns (18 percent).' ABC's World News on Monday devoted nearly two minutes to results of ABC's survey, but didn't get to that finding which shows the public does not share the media assumption that gun availability is to blame for the murders at Virginia Tech. "

Poll Finds Twice as Many Blame Culture as Guns, But ABC Spikes It --4/24/2007-- Media Research Center: "Fineman to Democrats on Guns: 'You Gonna Do Something Now?!'

Newsweek's Howard Fineman's first instinct when he heard about the Virginia Tech shootings was to call up the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill and ask for gun control legislation. On this past weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the Newsweek political reporter admitted 'the first thing he did' was call the Democrats to demand: 'Okay, you gonna do something now?!' "

THIS IS MEAN!

2007-04-23T18:36:00.000-05:00

HEY! EVEN A GREEN PARTY MEMBER CAN GET A CHUCKLE OUT OF THIS!

2007-04-23T16:04:00.000-05:00

Morning TV's One-Sided Climate Crusade -- 04/19/2007 - Media Research Center - Media Reality Check: "Al Gore has complained that the media are biased against the inconvenient truth of global warming. 'I believe that is one of the principal reasons why political leaders around the world have not yet taken action,' Gore told a 'Media Ethics Summit' at Middle Tennessee State University back in February. Gore lectured journalists that any coverage of views opposed to his own was irresponsible, calling it 'balance as bias.'"

DON'T SHAKE HANDS WITH SHERYL CROWE!

2007-04-23T10:02:00.000-05:00

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Crow calls for limit on loo paper: " The shows include a short set from Sheryl Crow and film clips Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.

Crow has suggested using 'only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required'. "

I CAN SIN AND DESTROY WHAT I WANT...

2007-04-21T14:09:00.000-05:00

...JUST AS LONG AS I HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR IT.American Thinker Blog: Carbon credits: indulgence or commutation fee?: "The ability of wealthy individuals like Al Gore to purchase what amounts to rights to pollute by buying carbon credits is a repulsive moral dodge, demanding us to consider useful analogies. One comparison that has occurred to many is the sale of Papal Indulgences that so infuriated Martin Luther. Taxprof picked up on this analgy in commenting on the 'get out of jail free' card for pollution guilt that was part of the gift bag given to all Academy Awards presenters. But I think there is another good analogy, much closer to hand, both geographically and temporally.

During the Civil War, it was possible for well-to-do men who were drafted to pay a $300 "commutation fee" and escape the draft. The move sparked much public outrage, creating the impression that the war was a "rich man's war" and probably contributing to the disgraceful draft riots in New York City, which led to the lynching of African Americans.

It seems to me that the purchase of carbon credits is a direct imitation of commutation fee. I don't expect to see SUV-deprived soccer moms lunching the wealthy outside of fixed base operator terminals at haunts of private jet-setters like Teterboro and Santa Monica Airports, but I do expect public revulsion to rise and rise, as sacrifices demanded of ordinary people are evaded by the wealthy. The war on global warming seems very much a "rich man's war.""

Want to read up about carbon credits? If you're a leftist and want to read about what a joke they are from a leftist source, go to Slate

I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE...

2007-04-20T12:31:00.000-05:00

...OR WHAT YOUR POSITION IS ON THE WAR, ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND COULD ONLY LABEL THIS GUY AS NUTS.My Way News - Reid Offers Bleak Assessment of Iraq War: "WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday the war in Iraq is 'lost,' triggering an angry backlash by Republicans, who said the top Democrat had turned his back on the troops. The bleak assessment - the most pointed yet from Reid - came as the House voted 215-199 to uphold legislation ordering troops out of Iraq next year."

THE MAN WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO LEAVE AMERICA...

2007-04-20T09:59:00.000-05:00

...IF GEORGE BUSH WAS RE-ELECTED

Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter - TMZ.com: "Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter"

UNOFFICIAL POLL:

DO YOU THINK HE SHOULD LEAVE?

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS

2007-04-20T07:13:00.000-05:00

Scientist: Warming not caused by humans: "Spencer, a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and former NASA scientist, said he knows he's in the minority with his opinions, but he doesn't believe manmade influences are causing catastrophic climate changes. "

Article | Reuters: "BRUSSELS (Reuters) - skeptics of the seriousness of global warming complained on Wednesday of not being heard by the public or policy makers while warning governments to take a second look at the scientific consensus on climate change. Scientists who doubt the scope and cause of climate change have trouble getting funding and academic posts unless they conform to an 'alarmist scenario,' said Roger Helmer, a British member of the European Parliament, at a panel discussion on appropriate responses to rising global temperatures."

Prius can't pass Georgia emissions test - Autoblog

HILARY AND PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION

2007-04-19T07:55:00.000-05:00

"It is precisely this erosion of our constitutional rights that I warned against when I opposed the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito." Hilary Clinton - President of the United States - Elected 2008

NOTE: IF THE ABOVE IMAGES OF PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION DISTURB OR OFFEND YOU IN ANY WAY, THEN PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SEND A THANK YOU NOTE TO JUSTICES KENNEDY, ROBERTS, ALITO, THOMAS AND SCALIA.

YES, VIRGINIA, CARS KILL INNOCENTS

2007-04-19T07:28:00.000-05:00

AT THE RISK OF BEING INFLAMMATORY...

The mind of the modern liberal is the mind of a child--someone unwilling or unable to fully analyze and process an issue to its complete conclusion.

As a child my young first love was struck by a drunk driver and killed. For the next 20 years I blamed alcohol for her death. Even at the young age of 12 years old, I was probably smarter than the average left-wing fringe liberal who would have blamed the car for her death.

Yes, Virginia, guns kill innocents - Crime File - NY Daily News By MICHAEL DALY. DAILY NEWS COLUMNIST"

Following this line of logic, lets make some more headlines like Mr. Daly's:

Yes, Virginia, cars kill innocents

Yes, Virginia, alcohol kills innocents

Yes, Virginia, student visa's for South Koreans kill innocents

Yes, Virginia, video games kill innocents

Yes, Virginia, violent movies kill innocents

Yes, Virginia, education kills innocents

Yes, Virginia, abortion doctors kill innocents...wait, that one is correct.

A child focuses on the superficial and rarely ever understands the real problem.

The truth of the matter is: The truth of the matter is: Yes, Virginia, moral relativsm is on the rise in this nation, so expect more self-centricity, more man-centered humanism which will...kill innocents.

BTW, the left accuses President Bush of killing innocents--he doesn't do that! Its the rifles in the hands of the soldiers or the missles or the tanks, or the...

Truly pathetic...

WHAT'S YOUR CAUSE?

2007-04-18T08:58:00.000-05:00

Today's ideologues are so concerned about causes, they have ceased to truly care about the people supposedly represented by them. These people are so "cause" driven they fail to even consider the people they hurt in the process. This demonstrates a degree of "sociopathic" behavior that seems to be epidemic.

The right-wing abortion protester outside of a clinic who engages in hurtful and abusive behavior toward the hurting young client who is trying to enter, is such an example. Another is the warmonger who is unconcerned with "collateral damage."

Consider the left-wing global warming crusader. They will feed into and support hysterical assertions and doomsday scenarios, supported by little evidence, while empowering opportunistic governments and politicians to enact poorly conceived and damaging legislation most directly affecting the poor in their struggle to make a living and provide for their own comfort. Add to this homosexual rights groups who push for sanctions against the Boy Scouts fully understanding that the donations by such organization as the United Way go toward funding the underprivileged (poor)participants.

However...

this mindset has never been more evident than last night, the callousness and uncaring nature of the contemporary ideologue:

Two days ago a man killed 32 people at Virginia Tech. He happened to use a gun to accomplish this. Every news show last night came out in full force with the gun-control advocates to begin advancing the anti-gun agenda. They don't care about the loved ones who lost family or friends, they could care less that people's worlds are upside down. They couldn't wait ten minutes to get themselves in front of the camera to begin pounding away at their message. The only thing they care about is their cause, no matter who they hurt.

Dare I say, that many even seemed gleeful for the opportunity the Virginia Tech massacre afforded them.

Collateral damage--nothing more.

What a sick and repugnant nation we have become.

Case in point - It does not take long before truth is affirmed. Read this and weep.

DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

2007-04-17T12:42:00.000-05:00

The Ithaca Journal - www.theithacajournal.com - Ithaca, NY: "While snow piles up outside our windows, we may be hard-pressed to believe climate change is occurring, global temperatures are rising and the planet is on a crash course of serious change if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced."

WHAT A REFRESHING ARTICLE!

2007-04-16T20:54:00.000-05:00

HERE IS A JOURNALIST WHO ACTUALY REPORTED THE NEWS. REPORTING THE NEWS IS NOT ABOUT REPORTING THE NEWS ANYMORE, IT IS SOMEHOW, SOMEWAY INJECTING PERSONALY IDEOLOGY INTO THE MISSIVE TO MANIPULATE THE READER. THIS ARTICLE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS. INDEED A RARE ARTICLE IN TODAY'S FEVERISHLY "RELIGIOUS" SOCIETY. CAN YOU SPOT WHAT'S MISSING?My Way News - Record Storm Pummels East Coast: "Record Storm Pummels East Coast"

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS

2007-04-16T20:35:00.000-05:00

HAT TIP: Dan (www.stuffthatsgoingon.blogspot.com)

Doubting doomsday - The Boston Globe

Our global-warming debate is contentious enough as it is. The last thing we need is to be disparaging the integrity of every scientist who takes a strong stand either way. Tempting though it may be to think otherwise, not every true believer is a scoundrel -- and not every heretic is a shill.

CREEPING SOCIALISM CONTINUES TO CREEP

2007-04-16T13:43:00.000-05:00

As US tax rates drop, government's reach grows | csmonitor.com: "Slightly over half of all Americans – 52.6 percent – now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, N.J. That's up from 49.4 percent in 2000 and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950. If the trend continues, the percentage could rise within ten years to pass 55 percent, where it stood in 1980 on the eve of President's Reagan's move to scale back the size of government. "

RUSH AGREES WITH JACK AGAIN!

2007-04-16T13:25:00.000-05:00

RUSH LIMBAUGH: 80% CHANCE HILLARY IS GOING TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT...

QUOTABLE QUOTES

2007-04-15T20:02:00.000-05:00

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity" Sigmund Freud

"I used to say that politics was the second oldest profession, but have found that it bears a gross similarity to the first" Ronald Reagan

"The 'taxpayer', one who works for the government but doesn't have to take the civil service exam" Ronald Reagan

"A vote is like a rifle. Its usefulness depends upon the character of its user." Theodore Roosevelt

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they should be doing for themselves" Abraham Lincoln

WAIT! THIS ISN'T RACIST!

2007-04-14T13:33:00.000-05:00

German army recruit given racist orders in training | International News | Reuters.com: "BERLIN (Reuters) - The German Defence Ministry is investigating an amateur video clip of a German army instructor ordering a recruit training with a machine gun to imagine he is firing at 'African Americans' who are insulting his mother. German television networks on Saturday aired the video clip. 'You're in the Bronx, a black van pulls up in front of you and three African-Americans get out and start really insulting your mother ... now do something!' the instructor says in German while a recruit lying on the ground starts firing his gun."

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC THEOCRACY

2007-04-14T13:30:00.000-05:00

HISTORICALLY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY HAS BEEN SOCIALISM WITH ITSELF SET UP AS THE ARISTOCRATIC BEREAUCRACY. ESSENTIAL THEOCRACY. APPARENTLY ITS MAKING A COMEBACKPope's New Book Criticizes Capitalism: "Pope's New Book Criticizes Capitalism"

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE AMBITION!

2007-04-14T13:26:00.000-05:00

OUR NEXT PRESIDENT

Wellesley Class Sees ‘One of Us’ Bearing Standard - New York Times: "For her Wellesley classmates, Hillary Clinton’s quest to become the first female president is a generational mirror. Some like what they see; others are less certain. They were there for her fiery commencement speech, delivered at the height of the Vietnam War, when she described her class’s search for a “more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating mode of living” and said that every protest was “unabashedly an attempt to forge an identity in this particular age.” The speech landed Hillary Rodham in the spotlight as a celebrated archetype of a new generation of women. “We were very proud of her: she was a feminist; she was outspoken,” said Jane Moss, a classmate who now teaches French at Colby College. “Hillary was speaking for all of us, for a generation that felt we weren’t being heard.”"

GLOBAL BIG BROTHER. SCARY!

2007-04-14T12:22:00.000-05:00

Researchers explore scrapping Internet - Yahoo! News: "NEW YORK - Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over. ADVERTISEMENT The idea may seem unthinkable, even absurd, but many believe a 'clean slate' approach is the only way to truly address security, mobility and other challenges that have cropped up since UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock helped supervise the first exchange of meaningless test data between two machines on Sept. 2, 1969. The Internet 'works well in many situations but was designed for completely different assumptions,' said Dipankar Raychaudhuri, a Rutgers University professor overseeing three clean-slate projects. 'It's sort of a miracle that it continues to work well today.'"

WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

2007-04-12T15:56:00.000-05:00

CBS FIRES EMBATTLED RADIO SHOCK-JOCK DON IMUS 'EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY'

Sort of illustrates which side the "Reverends" Al and Jesse are on. The Jesus I serve did not go out of his way to destroy others, no matter what they did.

Luke 23:34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

SOME DEBATE...

2007-04-12T12:44:00.000-05:00

IT WAS LIKE ME TRYING TO TALK MYSELF OUT OF ICE CREAM.

Dana Milbank - Kerry and Gingrich Hugging Trees -- and (Almost) Each Other - washingtonpost.com: "Before Kerry got a word in, Gingrich conceded that global warming is real, that humans have contributed to it and that 'we should address it very actively.' Gingrich held up Kerry's new book, 'This Moment on Earth,' and called it 'a very interesting read.' He then added a personal note about saving vulnerable species from climate change. 'My name, Newt, actually comes from the Danish Knut, and there's been a major crisis in Germany over a polar bear named Knut,' he confided."

ITS GOOD TO FINALLY LAY TO REST...

2007-04-12T08:26:00.000-05:00

...THE MYTH THAT GEORGE BUSH STOLE THE ELECTION

In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud - New York Times: "WASHINGTON, April 11 — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.

Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it has corrupted the political process and, possibly, cost the party election victories, about 120 people have been charged and 86 convicted as of last year."

EMBARRASSED, JESSE?

2007-04-12T07:37:00.000-05:00

Chicago Defender / Commentary: "REV. JESSE JACKSON SR.: Duke: Horror and Truth by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. April 24, 2006"

QUIT COMPLAINING, MR. BOBBIE! (MR. BOBBIE. PART 2--SEE PREVIOUS POST)

2007-04-12T07:34:00.000-05:00

PEANUT BUTTER IS A FINE PROTEIN SUBSTITUTE!

Dash for green fuel pushes up price of meat in US-Business-Industry Sectors-Consumer Goods-TimesOnline: "Dash for green fuel pushes up price of meat in USCarl Mortished, International Business Editor

The price of meat is set to rise in America as the nation’s helter-skelter dash to convert corn into road fuel begins to take its toll on the supply of food.

The US Department of Agriculture has said that meat supply will fall this year because of the high cost of feed. Output of beef, pork and chicken is expected to decline by one billion pounds as farmers react to the soaring cost of feeding their livestock. "

HEY, AT LEAST VEGANS ARE HAPPY!

GET WITH IT, MR. BOBBIE

2007-04-11T12:29:00.000-05:00

Mr. Bobbie is a friend of mine. He has cancer, incurable, for which he gets radiation. His wife, Glendale, has a brain tumor--undetermined at present whether its malignant or not.

Mr. Bobbie gets a social security check each month. His rent alone accounts for over half. Not long ago, we cleaned out a storage building on my property. Mr. Bobbie took most of what I had to sell at the Jockey Lot, something he tries to do just to keep living.

Mr. Bobbie drives a 1983 Chevy Caprice. Its not all tricked out like. Its pretty beat up, shabby--runs used tires on it.

Makes about 10-12 miles to a gallon...

I was watching a news debate type show called "Bulls and Bears" on one of the cable network news channels. There were three people debating, with one moderating. There was a pretty young blond woman, Laura who indicated that the recent rise in gasoline prices was a good thing because it battled global warming, that it would force auto makers to create more "hybrids" and also force consumers to buy more "hybrids."

Mr. Bobbie is having to borrow money from friends and family to get enough gasoline to get him to his cancer treatments and the jockey lot and back. Money that he pays back out of the meager sales he makes.

Its a good thing Mr. Bobbie has to pay high prices for gas, because he really needs to break down and buy himself one of those shiny new hybrids.

"Some wealthy elitists in our country who cannot tell fact from fiction, can afford an Olympian detachment from the impacts of draconian climate change policy. For them, the jobs and dreams destroyed as a result will be nothing more than statistics and the cares of other people. These consequences are abstractions to them. I can name many of the thousands of the American citizens whose lives will be destroyed by these elitists' ill-conceived ‘global goofiness' campaigns."

EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING

2007-04-10T11:22:00.000-05:00

AMERICA 15,000 YEARS AGO. AMERICA TODAY

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS

2007-04-10T09:39:00.000-05:00

OK, YOU LEFTISTS ASKED FOR IT.

Bill ties climate to national security - The Boston Globe: "WASHINGTON -- The CIA and Pentagon would for the first time be required to assess the national security implications of climate change under proposed legislation intended to elevate global warming to a national defense issue."

JUST YOUR TYPICAL EVERYDAY WHITE DEMOCRAT...

2007-04-09T12:23:00.000-05:00

Charlotte Observer | 04/09/2007 | Elizabeth Edwards afraid of neighbor: "Elizabeth Edwards afraid of neighbor She has never met `rabid Republican,' but wouldn't be nice."

RALEIGH --Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home -- and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.

Edwards views Johnson as a "rabid, rabid Republican" who refuses to clean up his "slummy" property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.

"I thought he was supposed to be for the poor people," Johnson said. "But does he ever socialize with any poor people? He doesn't speak to me."

Johnson said he has put his property on the market, in part blaming the high property taxes for his decision to leave. He also wants to move for another reason.

"I don't want to live somewhere where someone's always complaining about me," he said.

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS

2007-04-09T09:40:00.000-05:00

No Such Thing As a 'Perfect' Temperature - Leadership and the Environment - MSNBC.com: "Why So Gloomy?"

adn.com | wildlife : Frozen bay turns otters into easy prey: "An extra-cold winter on the Alaska Peninsula has frozen sea otters out of the bay and pushed them onto the tundra near Port Heiden where they're easy prey for wolves, humans and hunger. "

Charlotte Observer | 04/08/2007 | Cold snap breaks region's record lows: "Cold snap breaks region's record lows. A historic cold weather outbreak shattered records this morning in Charlotte and elsewhere in the Carolinas, producing bone-chilling conditions for Easter sunrise services."

DEMOCRATS GET WHAT REPUBLICANS DID

2007-04-08T15:37:00.000-05:00

IN 2000 AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES WORKED HARD TO PUT REPUBLICANS IN POWER. THEY WERE BETRAYED. NOW DEMOCRATS ARE GETTING A TASTE OF THAT SAME BAD MEDICINE. WHEN WILL WE BEGIN TO WAKE UP AND REALIZE THAT FOR OUR POLITICIANS ITS ALL ABOUT THEM AND THEIR POWER--NOT ABOUT US?

Bush critic Sheehan blasts US Democrats: "Prominent Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan urged US President George W. Bush on Friday to 'end this madness' and accused his Democratic foes of having 'betrayed' their anti-war supporters. Sheehan, whose soldier son Casey was killed in Iraq, planned to lead dozens of protesters to a security checkpoint near Bush's Texas ranch and read out names of US dead in Iraq using a bullhorn. 'Our message is: Today is Good Friday, when Jesus Christ was killed by the Roman Empire. He rose again on Sunday, came back to life. But our loved ones won't be coming home' from Iraq, she told reporters. The protesters will tell Bush 'to end this madness for our families,' said Sheehan, who took a tough line against Democrats who harnessed anger at the Iraq war to recapture the US Congress in November. 'They got there and they betrayed the grass roots that put them back there,' she said. 'We can't depend on the Democrats.'"

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS

2007-04-07T16:44:00.000-05:00

My Way News - Forecaster Blasts Gore on Global Warming: "NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A top hurricane forecaster called Al Gore 'a gross alarmist' Friday for making an Oscar-winning documentary about global warming. 'He's one of these guys that preaches the end of the world type of things. I think he's doing a great disservice and he doesn't know what he's talking about,' Dr. William Gray said in an interview with The Associated Press at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans, where he delivered the closing speech."

AccuWeather.com - Weather Blogs - Weather News: "Record-Shattering Cold Threatens Crops"

HILARIOUS

2007-04-05T19:15:00.000-05:00

KING SIZED EGO BROKERS PEACE DEAL THAT 5 PRESIDENTS AND 4 SECRETARIES OF STATE COULD NEVER ACCOMPLISH. OOPS, MAYBE NOT... PMO denies peace message to Assad | Jerusalem Post: "The Prime Minister's Office issued a rare 'clarification' Wednesday that, in gentle diplomatic terms, contradicted US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's statement in Damascus that she had brought a message from Israel about a willingness to engage in peace talks."

WHAT? RATIONAL THOUGHT FROM DEMOCRATS?

2007-04-05T06:31:00.000-05:00

I'M SURPRISED--BUT PLEASANTLY SO. No more GWOT, House committee decrees - Military News, news from Iraq, photos, reports from the war - Military Times: "No more GWOT, House committee decrees By Rick Maze - Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Apr 4, 2007 16:11:56 EDT The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase. A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27, says the 2008 bill and its accompanying explanatory report that will set defense policy should be specific about military operations and “avoid using colloquialisms.”"

PREDICTION

2007-04-04T14:25:00.000-05:00

I am willing to bet good money that leftist sites and bloggers will extol the virtues of Ahmadinejad and his benevolent regime. Stay tuned for the tally! Freed British sailors to fly home in time for Easter the Daily Mail: "Freed British sailors to fly home in time for Easter"

ARE YOU STARTING TO GET IT YET?

2007-04-04T07:09:00.000-05:00

RIA Novosti - World - Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming: "Belgium to impose tax on barbequing to fight global warming"

GLOBAL WARMING NEWS

2007-04-03T19:47:00.000-05:00

A CEO With A Spine - April 3, 2007 - The New York Sun: "'Some wealthy elitists in our country,' he told the audience, 'who cannot tell fact from fiction, can afford an Olympian detachment from the impacts of draconian climate change policy. For them, the jobs and dreams destroyed as a result will be nothing more than statistics and the cares of other people. These consequences are abstractions to them, but they are not to me, as I can name many of the thousands of the American citizens whose lives will be destroyed by these elitists' ill-conceived ‘global goofiness' campaigns.'" RealClearPolitics - Articles - Business of Global Warming Feels a Lot Like Inquisition: "The heavy condemnatory breathing on the subject of global warming outdoes anything since high moments of the Inquisition. A respectable columnist (Thomas Friedman of The New York Times) opened his essay last week by writing, 'Sometimes you read something about this administration that's just so shameful it takes your breath away...For those with addled reflexes, here is the story compressed: (1) Anyone who speaks discriminatingly about global warming is conspiring to belittle the threat. Such people end up (2) working for Exxon Mobil, a perpetrator of the great threat the malefactor sought to distract us from.'"

WHY ISN'T 5 MOST LIBERAL, INSTEAD OF 4 MOST CONSERVATIVE?

2007-04-03T11:53:00.000-05:00

CBS on Ruling: 5 Non-Ideologues v 4 'Most Conservative' Justices Reporting on the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision that the EPA has a "statutory obligation" to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions from motor vehicles, CBS's Wyatt Andrews on Monday night avoided labeling those in the majority while describing those in dissent as "the Court's most conservative justices." CBS and NBC led by championing the narrow ruling, but NBC's Pete Williams, as well as ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg in a story a few minutes into World News, managed to avoided ideological tagging. Andrews began his CBS Evening News story by stressing how, "in a hard slap to the administration, the Supreme Court ruled the EPA does have authority to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollution. Justice John Paul Stevens writes [text on screen]: 'The harms associated with climate change are serious' and that EPA's political reasons for inaction are illegal, 'arbitrary,' he wrote, 'capricious...or otherwise not in accordance with law.'" After not labeling Stevens or any of the four justices who joined his opinion, Andrews concluded by pointing out how "this was a 5-to-4 decision with the Court's most conservative justices dissenting. But you can still add the Supreme Court to the list of voices advocating action on global warming."

CITING X-MAN MOVIE...

2007-04-03T08:09:00.000-05:00

AS A REASON TO SEARCH FOR MUTANTS AMONG US...

GOOD GRIEF, THIS IS JUST TOO UNBELIEVABLE FOR WORDS

Federal judge allows global warming lawsuit to advance: "Citing Al Gore's movie on global warming, a federal judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government for its financing of overseas projects that may contribute to climate change."

THE TALE OF TWO HOUSES

2007-04-02T08:12:00.000-05:00

House #1

A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas.

In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year.

The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400.

In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.

This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.

House #2

This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide.

The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on an arid, high prairie in the American southwest.

A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer.

The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system.

Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern.

Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house.

Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore. See:

http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush. See:

http://www.cowboysindians.com/articles/archives/1202/bush.html

OH, ITS NOT ABOUT POLITICS...

2007-04-02T07:28:00.000-05:00

Senator Diane Feinstein then:

"It has come to my attention, Attorney General Gonzales that, despite high apprehension rates by Border Patrol agents along California's border with Mexico, prosecutions by the US attorney's office Southern District of California appear to lag behind. A concern voiced by Border Patrol agents is that low prosecution rates have a demoralizing effect on the men and women patrolling our nation's borders. It is my understanding that the US attorney's office, Southern District of California, may have some of the most restrictive prosecutorial guidelines nationwide for immigration cases, such that many Border Patrol agents end up not referring their cases. I'm concerned that lax prosecution [by Carol Lam] can endanger the lives of Border Patrol agents. In 2005, the US attorney's office in southern California [Carol Lam] convicted only 387 aliens for alien smuggling and 262 aliens for illegal reentry after deportation. When looking at the rates of conviction from 2003 to 2005, the numbers of convictions fall by nearly half. I'm concerned, Mr. Attorney General, about these low numbers. I would like to know what steps can be taken to ensure that immigration violators are vigorously prosecuted.

Senator Diane Feinstein now:

"An accumulation study done by USA Today places Carol Lam as one of the top three attorneys in the United States for the prosecution of these cases. It is a real surprise to me that you would say here that the reason for her dismissal was immigration cases."

HILARYCARE

2007-03-29T07:27:00.000-05:00

Hillary has advantage in healthcare debate Ralph Bristol March 27, 2007

Ignore Hillary Clinton at your own risk. At campaign stops in Iowa and elsewhere, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president is telling her audience that "We're going to have universal health care when I'm president - there's no doubt about that. We're going to get it done." She knows she tried it before and failed, but this time she'll be president, not co-president, and "I believe we're in a better position today to do that than we were in '93 and '94. ... It's one of the reasons I'm running for president."

Make it THE reason she's running for president. If she's elected president, HRC has an excellent chance of moving the U.S. closer to European style socialism than any previous president, save FDR and LBJ.

People are fearful of health insurance companies. It's not just poor people, but some wealthier people too. Health insurance companies have been famous for loving you when you're well, and hating you when you're sick. Once you've lost your insurance, for any reason, you can either be "rated up," meaning you have to pay much more because you have high blood pressure or some other common ailment, or you can be labeled "uninsurable."

This week, the state of California accused Blue Cross of violating state law when it canceled individual health insurance coverage after policyholders got pregnant or sick. The state fined Blue Cross $1 million dollars, the equivalent of a parking ticket for you and me, since Blue Cross's parent company, WellPoint Inc., rakes in $57 billion a year in premiums. WellPoint insists it did nothing wrong. Perhaps it didn't, but the practice improves the environment for the adoption of socialized medicine, euphemistically labeled "universal healthcare."

The healthcare payment system in the United States is sick – very sick, but socialized medicine is exactly the wrong cure. It's the equivalent of trying to lose weight by going on a beer and ice cream diet. It doesn't work. Trust me. I've tried it.

As healthcare expert Devon Herrick correctly testified to Congress recently, "a primary reason why health care costs are soaring is that most of the time when people enter the medical marketplace, they are spending someone else's money." I like to call it OPM (other people's money). Because they are spending OPM, they consume more than they would if they were spending their own money, even if they had plenty of their own money to spend. The more we spend on health care, the more we have to pay in health insurance premiums, the higher the premiums go, and the fewer people can afford health insurance.

The key to controlling health care spending, and lowering health insurance premiums so that more people can afford it, is to require everyone to spend their own money first. Every healthcare decision should cost enough to make us think about that decision at least as much as we would whether to purchase a pair of shoes, and if so, which pair.

Universal healthcare, aka socialized medicine, takes us in exactly the opposite direction. The overall cost of healthcare will go up, but Hillary won't care because taxpayers will pay the bill collectively, and the tax system can easily dump most of the bill on those with "the ability to pay." That's the central tenet of Marxism, which is fully engrained in out federal income tax system, and the Marxist politicians among us want it engrained in out healthcare system as well, just like Europe. They don't care that the cost is more, because they plan to shift most or all of the cost to the top half, third, fourth, or 10 percent of the population.

In time – not much time – the system will become so costly that it will be impossible to pay the bill, so the government will do what all other governments have done with their socialized medicine. They will begin rationing healthcare. Rather than having individuals ration their own healthcare, the government will ration it for us. We will have long waits for routine surgical procedures. Some will be unavailable.

It also won't bother Hillary, and others who think like her, that healthcare is being rationed. At least we are all being treated the same. To a Marxist, it's better that everyone suffer than that some suffer more than others based on different levels of personal success.

I doubt that conservatives and Republicans are ready for the 2008 healthcare debate. Hillary's message is simple – "You go to the doctor, and we’ll pay the bill." The conservative rebuttal is not as simple. Voters are rather simple-minded.

The 50% of the people who pay only 4% of federal income taxes would not want that to change. If those same 50% can get the same healthcare as everyone else and pay only 4% of the nation's healthcare bill, do you think they'll take that deal? I do. Hillary does to. She's betting her political future on it. It’s not a sure bet, but I won't bet the house against her.

Hillary in 2008

COMMENTS WELCOMED!

2007-03-29T07:15:00.000-05:00

SACRIFICES MUST BE MADE...

2007-03-26T15:01:00.000-05:00

A NEW DILEMMA

Contemporary liberals once again find themselves faced with a moral dilemma of their own making. The latest religion, adopted hook, line and sinker, among urban white atheist liberals is the coming apocalypse, ala man-made global warming.

Something must be done and must be done NOW to appease the Carbon-neutral god!

A good start would be the complete adherence to the GW Koran, aka: the Kyoto Treaty, that their holy prophet, Al Gore, was instrumental in writing. (Through divine inspiration of course).

But...a choice must be made.

The problem is, the GW Koran (aka: the Kyoto Treaty) teaches great sacrifice, almost EXTREME sacrifice. Self-flagellation and denial of a most strict and sacred nature. So extreme that the direct costs may mount into the trillions of trillions of dollars, with indirect costs too numerous and complex to even quantify.

The GW Koran will bring to a jarring halt the growth and independence of developing and third world nations whose populations are stricken by poverty and the death, decay and disease that accompanies it.

But that's ok, the war on poverty and its consignment of millions to an early grave is much less appealing than the appeasement of a faceless and capricious god.

The sacrifice is worth it.

Dilemma solved.

GLOBAL WARMING

2007-03-23T12:52:00.000-05:00

I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING EMAIL ACCOMPAINIED BY THE LINK TO THE FOLLOWING VIDEO:

Hi Jack: Thought you would find this interesting. It is a load of [crap], but I thought you would enjoy it because it agrees with you.

I REALIZE THAT VIDEOS OF THIS SORT WILL NOT MAKE ONE BIT OF DIFFERENCE TO THOSE WHO HAVE RELIGIOUSLY EMBRACED THE CURRENT TEACHINGS OF SAINT GORE. JUST LIKE MY DEAR FRIEND WHO SENT ME THIS. AN ACCOUNTANT FRIEND WHO APPARENTLY KNOWS MUCH MORE THAN THE FEATURED SCIENTISTS, CLIMATOLOGIST AND POLICYMAKERS.

PORTLAND OREGON, YESTERDAY...

2007-03-21T14:49:00.000-05:00

WARNING: CONTENT ALERT. THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS LANGUAGE THAT SOME MAY FIND OFFENSIVE.

MASSIVE PROTESTS

2007-03-21T10:12:00.000-05:00

Massive protests were staged throughout the world against terrorist/insurgents in Iraq who used two children to get close to a target, blowing the two children up. While a common practice of Middle-eastern terrorist, it was nonetheless distasteful enough to mobililize hundreds of thou...wait, hundre..uh...tens...anyone?

...

There have been no protests against...

Bush tries to block Democrat witch hunt

2007-03-21T10:09:00.000-05:00

Bush tries to block Democrat witch hunt Ralph Bristol March 21, 2007

President Bush is right to try to protect members of his White House staff from having to testify under oath to House and Senate committees who want to rake them over the coals about the firing of U.S. Attorneys. House and Senate committees are expected to approve subpoenas today.

There's no doubt about the Democrats' motives. They want to bring perjury charges against Karl Rove and any other Bush aide on which they can train their sights.

"But," you might ask, "What do they have to fear if they just tell the truth." Oh, I don't know. Maybe we should ask Scooter Libby. Did he lie under oath? A jury found that he did. He said he didn't remember things the same way some members of the news media did. He lost. The whole affair cost him his job, a lot of money in attorney fees, his good reputation, and maybe a few years of freedom.

Why would someone from the Bush White House not want to answer questions under oath from members of a hostile Congress with campaign fire in its nostrils? Gee, I can't think of any good reasons.

The president has offered to have several key members of his administration submit to informal interviews by House and Senate members of both parties, but not under oath. He understands, and is peeved, that some of the answers given to questions initially were wrong. That doesn’t mean they were lies. They were more likely misinformed answers. Mistakes are generally not criminal, but Democrats in Congress have their sights set on accusing President Bush's aides, especially Rove, of a crime.

The president should take the subpoena fight all the way. Doing anything less would be throwing loyal aides to the wolves – and for what purpose? The only effect would be to increase the appetite of the Democrats for more blood. This crowd has a single purpose – to destroy President Bush and anyone who stands with him. They will stay on offense as long as they can, because they believe it's the key to victory in 2008. They have their sights set on a Democratic sweep in '08 and they believe destroying the credibility of the head of the Republican Party is the key to that plan.

They don't have any palatable plans for the country, so their only hope is to destroy the reputation of the opposition. That's their game plan for victory in '08. They will sacrifice victory in Iraq for victor in the 2008 elections, and they will sure as heck try to brand innocent people as criminals for the same purpose.

There is nothing abnormal about the firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys. They serve at the pleasure of the president and he can replace them for no other reason than he wants someone else to have the chance to have the job. That is what he did. All presidents have done the same.

Attorney General Gonzales made a mistake when he initially said that the eight were fired for performance reasons. That was simply not true. He may have believed it was true, or he may have given a reflexive answer to what he construed as a politically motivated question that needed a non-political answer. Whatever the case, there is nothing criminal or unethical about the way the matter was handled.

The Democrats in Congress know that, but they also know that if they can get high profile Bush aides under oath and grill them with hostile questions, they may fall into a perjury trap – and that is the Democrats’ only wish.

President Bush is rightfully protecting his aides. It will be shameful if he gets no help from his Republican colleagues in Congress.

LIES

2007-03-16T11:46:00.000-05:00

THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SEEMS TO BE AFRAID TO USE THE TERM "LIE" WHEN IT COMES TO SOMETHING LIKE THE MEDIA. WHILE MEDIA BIAS CAN TAKE MANY FORMS, THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT IT IS ESSENTIALLY A LIE. 84% OF AMERICANS THINK SO. THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF THE NONSENSE YOU ARE READING ABOUT POLITICS, SOCIETY, RELIGION AND ECONOMICS IS A BUNCH OF BOSH. CARE TO RETHINK YOUR POSITION ON PARTY POLITICS, GLOBAL WARMING, THE ECONOMY? NAH, I DIDN'T THINK SO. MEDIA BIAS EXISTS BECAUSE WE LET IT. WE WANT IT, WE BUY IT. WE WOULD RATHER FEEL GOOD THAN BE RIGHT. OH WELL...

Poll: Bias 'alive and well' in press - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "The vast majority of American voters detect the presence of political bias in the mainstream news media, according to a Zogby poll released yesterday in conjunction with the George Washington University Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet. "

THE FUTURE

2007-03-16T08:09:00.000-05:00

The Snipet maintains that the foretelling of the future is the judicature of the opportunist, the simple minded, the religious or the mentally insane.

Dr. Michael Crichton presented the following speech on complexity. Reading it in its entirety is worth your time:

Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century

JUST THE MAN FOR THE JOB!

2007-03-15T12:47:00.000-05:00

The New Dean Political Plan - Politico.com: "Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean has been meeting with world leaders to repair 'the extraordinary damage' that the Bush administration has done to America's image and to prepare the way for a new Democratic president."

GLOBAL, UH, GLOBAL... (PART 2)

2007-03-14T13:48:00.000-05:00

War on Global Cooling

The World in Peril. We are unanimously convinced that rapid, radical redressment of the present unbalanced and dangerously deteriorating world situation is the primary task facing mankind. Concerted internation measures and joint long-term planning will be necessary to a scale and scope without precedent. This supreme effort is founded on a basic change of values and goals at individual, national and world levels. 1972, Meadows et al.

War on Global Warming

History offers no example of parallel threat on a global, national or even local scale. To "wait and see" invites disaster. Only the long-term threats of global warming, oxygen loss, exhaustion of other basic resources in the oceans and continents as well as the eventual possibility of an earth-asteroid collision demand worldwide action on a similar scale. A worldwide strategic mobilization similar to the effort required by World War II must be developed in the weeks ahead. 1998. UN Working Group of Informatics.

Did I miss Y2K?

GLOBAL, UH, GLOBAL...

2007-03-14T13:43:00.000-05:00

"We simply cannot afford to gamble by ignoring it. We cannot risk inaction. These scientists who say we are merely entering a period of climatic instability are acting irresponsibly. The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored."

Lowell Ponte. 1978. The Cooling, pg 237

THIS SUMS UP THE ENTIRE ISSUE

2007-03-14T10:50:00.000-05:00

IF THIS DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE TRUE PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT WE ARE BEING FED, NOTHING WILL:

James E. Hansen, an environmental scientist, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a top adviser to Mr. Gore, said, “Al does an exceptionally good job of seeing the forest for the trees,” adding that Mr. Gore often did so “better than scientists.”

NO, DAN...

2007-03-13T11:35:00.000-05:00

They are continuing to lie as usual, they are just doing it much better than you.

Dan Rather: Journalism has 'lost its guts' CNET News.com: "Dan Rather: Journalism has 'lost its guts'"

HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION - AND THE EXTINCTION OF POLAR BEARS

2007-03-12T10:39:00.000-05:00

ABC News: Global Warming Is Not a Crisis

March 9, 2007 — From the Babylon of Gilgamesh to the post-Eden of Noah, every age has viewed climate change cataclysmically, as retribution for human greed and sinfulness. In the 1970s, the fear was "global cooling." The Christian Science Monitor then declaimed, "Warning: Earth's climate is changing faster than even experts expect," while The New York Times announced, "A major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable." Sound familiar? Global warming represents the latest doom-laden "crisis," one demanding sacrifice to Gaia for our wicked fossil-fuel-driven ways. But neither history nor science bolsters such an apocalyptic faith.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE<

THE NEW RIGHT LEFT

2007-03-09T13:29:00.001-05:00

BEAR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW.

2007-03-08T15:14:00.000-05:00

GONE TOMORROW

Study Says Polar Bears Could Face Extinction (washingtonpost.com): "The sea ice in Hudson Bay, Canada, now breaks up 2 1/2 weeks earlier than it did 30 years ago, said Canadian Wildlife Service research scientist Ian Stirling, and as a result female polar bears there weigh 55 pounds less than they did then. Assuming the current rate of ice shrinkage and accompanying weight loss in the Hudson Bay region, bears there could become so thin by 2012 they may no longer be able to reproduce, said Lara Hansen, chief scientist for the World Wildlife Fund. 'Once the population stops reproducing, that's pretty much the end of it,' Hansen said. Arctic residents have already detected changes in polar bears' behavior. Jose Kusugak, president of the Canadian Inuit political association, said at a news conference that within the past two years he witnessed a polar bear 'stock up on caribou' because it was deprived of seals. Hudson Bay residents now complain the bears are coming onto land more often, forced to seek sustenance in a habitat where they are less well adapted. Polar bears are not the only Arctic animals in trouble. The ringed seals that bears eat, and that humans hunt, are also dependent on the sea ice to rest, give birth, nurse and feed. "

WAIT, AREN'T YOU BEARS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING SOMEWHERE?!

ESA LISTING NOT NEEDED FOR POLAR BEARS: Environmental activists have presented only one academic study that shows any negative effect of warming temperatures on polar bears, and only anecdotal evidence of bears drowning and eating each other, says H. Sterling Burnett, senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Other, more comprehensive research suggests the plight of that one population does not reflect the polar bear population trend as a whole:

Since the 1970s, while much of the world was warming, polar bear numbers increased dramatically, from roughly 5,000 to 25,000 bears -- a higher polar bear population than has existed at any time in the twentieth century.

Scientists believe polar bears thrived in the past in temperatures even warmer than at present -- during the medieval warm period 1,000 years ago and during the Holocene Climate Optimum between 5,000 and 9,000 years ago.

Dr. Mitchell Taylor, a biologist with Nunavut Territorial government in Canada says the polar bear population in Canada alone has increased 25 percent from 12,000 to 15,000 during the past decade, with 11 of Canada's 13 polar bear populations stable or increasing in number.

Wrong lesson from tragic death

2007-03-07T10:51:00.000-05:00

Ralph Bristol March 7, 2007 It's a crying shame that a 12-year-old Maryland boy had to die of a toothache, but it's not your fault, and you need not assume any of the blame. It's the boy's parents' fault – no one else's. According to ABC News, the senseless death of the boy "underscores the need for better dental service among U.S. children." Bunk – to put it politely. Dental services for U.S. children are excellent and readily available. What the story underscores is the need for better parenting. ABC reports, "Deamonte Driver's life could have been spared if his infected tooth was simply removed — a procedure costing just $80. "But," the story continues, "the Driver family faced obstacles with Medicaid, poverty, and access to resources." Oh well, sure – they faced obstacles. I don't want to sound self-righteous here, but if my 12-year-old child had an infected tooth, I'd find a way to get him help. I know what it feels like to have a debilitating toothache and I'm not going to let my child suffer for lack of money. No matter how poor I might be, I'll scrape up the money, come hell or high water. My poor parents would have too, and when I was 12, there was no Medicaid program. Maybe it's because there was no Medicaid program that parents raising children before 1965 had no expectation of someone else paying for their children's dental, or other medical, needs. You can bet your last dollar that Deamonte Driver's story will be used over and over to separate productive Americans from more of the money they earn in order to prevent similar tragedies. The money won't solve the problem. Wherever you have negligent parents, you'll find an occasional dead child. The problem is not poverty or lack of free services. The problem is parents who never run out of excuses for failing to take care of their own children. The programs that we invented to overcome "obstacles" such as poverty have increased American dependency on OPM – other people's money, and dependency breeds neglect. More OPM = more neglect = more deaths.

FROM NBC - THAT HOTBED OF CONSERVATISM

2007-03-06T13:48:00.000-05:00

NBC: Iraqis Want U.S. to Stay, Anti-War Effort Helping Insurgents Visiting Iraq, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams learned from Army officers that Iraqis want U.S. forces to remain in their country, from NBC News Baghdad reporter Richard Engel that Al-Sadr's insurgents have stepped down and are counting on pressure from anti-war opponents to provide them with victory, and from retired General and NBC News military analyst Wayne Downey that U.S. troops are proud of their mission. Traveling with Lieutenant General Ray Odierno for stories on his Monday newscast, Williams ran a clip of Army Colonel John Charlton proclaiming that Iraqis "do not want us to leave" and a soundbite from Army Lt. Colonel Charles Ferry who asserted: "The people here are very glad to see us." To explain the decreased violence in Baghdad, Engel noted how "the militia decided they fought the U.S. two-and-a-half years ago, didn't have a lot of success. They decided this time they're going to wait it out, see if political pressure in the U.S. can help them win this time." Downey related how "every soldier that I ran across today I asked him: 'How do you feel about what's going on,'" and "without exception....very proud of what they're doing."

EVER WONDER WHERE THE NEWS WENT?

2007-03-06T11:39:00.000-05:00

More reporters embrace an advocacy role - USATODAY.com: "The 'social journalism' that made Oprah Winfrey an international fairy godmother is the new rage in network and cable news, and it's expanding to other media. Increasingly, journalists and talk-show hosts want to 'own' a niche issue or problem, find ways to solve it and be associated with making this world a better place, as Winfrey has done with obesity, literacy and, most recently, education by founding a girls school in South Africa. Experts say the competitive landscape, the need to be different and to keep eyeballs returning, is driving this trend, along with a genuine desire from some anchors and reporters to do good."

BAD ACCENT!

2007-03-05T14:00:00.000-05:00

UFO'S AND GLOBAL WARMING

2007-03-03T08:46:00.000-05:00

THE MOST CREDIBLE SCIENTIFIC THEORIES ON GLOBAL WARMING TO DATE.

UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister - Yahoo! News: "OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.

'I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation ... that could be a way to save our planet,' Paul Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen."

DUH! ITS FROM THE MARTIAN FACTORIES AND CARS!

2007-03-02T14:29:00.000-05:00

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News February 28, 2007 Simultaneous warming on Earth and Mars suggests that our planet's recent climate changes have a natural—and not a human- induced—cause, according to one scientist's controversial theory. Earth is currently experiencing rapid warming, which the vast majority of climate scientists says is due to humans pumping huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Mars, too, appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures. In 2005 data from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" near Mars's south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.

YOU'RE OK, I'M BETTER

2007-02-27T14:54:00.000-05:00

Study: Vanity on the rise among college students - CNN.com: "NEW YORK (AP) -- Today's college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society."

GORE INVOKES RELIGION

2007-02-26T11:57:00.000-05:00

Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" wins documentary Oscar | Entertainment | Entertainment News | Reuters.com: "'It's not a political issue, it's a moral issue. We have everything we need to get started with the possible exception of the will to act. That's a renewable resource. Let's renew it.'"

THIS MUST EMBARRASS MICHAEL MOORE

2007-02-26T11:52:00.000-05:00

ALL THAT HARD WORK MICHAEL MOORE HAS PUT INTO MAKING HIS DOCUMENTARIES AND AL SNEAKS UP FROM BEHIND AND WINS IT WITH A POWER-POINT PRESENTATION!

Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" wins documentary Oscar | Entertainment | Entertainment News | Reuters.com: "'An Inconvenient Truth,' the big-screen adaptation of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's slide-show lecture about the perils of global warming, won Academy Awards on Sunday for documentary feature and best song."

WORD ASSOCIATION

2007-02-21T14:47:00.000-05:00

Let's play word association. Read the following four descriptions and think of the first word that comes to mind:

Dogmatic faith-based system

Preaches future damnation without salvific repentance

Attempts rigid control over adherents and non-adherents alike

Extorts money and resources based on fear

Did you think religion?

I recently tried to talk to a "man-made global warming" convert. It was like reasoning with a muslim with a bomb strapped to his waist.

CLINTON'S PEACE VS. BUSH'S WAR

2007-02-21T11:58:00.000-05:00

Heroes And Cowards - February 20, 2007 - The New York Sun: "The total military dead in the Iraq war between 2003 and this month stands at about 3,133. This is tragic, as are all deaths due to war, and we are facing a cowardly enemy unlike any other in our past that hides behind innocent citizens. Each death is blazoned in the headlines of newspapers and Internet sites. What is never compared is the number of military deaths during the Clinton administration: 1,245 in 1993; 1,109 in 1994; 1,055 in 1995; 1,008 in 1996. That's 4,417 deaths in peacetime but, of course, who's counting?"

DID YOU SUPPORT OUR TROOPS THEN?

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PEOPLE WITH BRAINS - ON GLOBAL WARMING

2007-02-20T14:46:00.001-05:00

DR. MICHAEL CRICHTON SQUARES OFF WITH CHARLIE ROSE ON THE GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE (ABOUT 22 MINUTES INTO VIDEO). INTERESTING QUOTES:

CRICHTON-"Consensus is politics, not science" ROSE-""I think you're wrong, but I don't know, therefore I can't prove it"

These two comments pretty much sum up the two sides of this debate.


Interesting discussion between a doctor(scientist) and author's perspective on the global warming issue verses a news commentator.

I LIKE THE OLD LIBERALS

2007-02-18T20:31:00.000-05:00

Caution: The following contains generalizations.

I LIKE THE OLD LIBERALS

Old liberals used to be tolerant and respectful of others' views

New ones are elitist and distainful.

Old liberals used to practice what they preached

New ones have forgotten the message.

Old liberals made a positive difference

New ones spread hatred and discontentment.

Old liberals were about equality and justice

New ones are about special interest and situational ethics.

Old liberals were about consistency of principle

New ones are about the politics of convenience.

Old liberals had hopeful outlooks no matter what the odds

New ones have a negative worldview.

Old liberals used to believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

New ones promote and glorify death, egalitarian bondage and self-gratification.

Old liberals made a difference

New one's are destroying that legacy.

Coming soon: "More Angry White Liberals" Subtitled: "It's All About Me - From Self-Loathing to Self-Loving" Sub-Subtitled: "I'm OK, You are Not"

HATRED

2007-02-15T15:07:00.000-05:00

Bill O'Reilly hits it on the head: Why They Dislike Hillary ...hatred towards some American politicians like President Bush and Hillary Clinton is becoming an obsession for some people. An unhealthy obsession, in my opinion. A few days ago on television, I asked why Senator Hillary Clinton would put herself through two years of personal attacks in her quest to be President. Is it ambition, a thirst for power, or a belief that she can help Americans in unique ways? There is no question that Mrs. Clinton will be viciously attacked in every way imaginable. The stuff thrown at her will be malicious and unrelenting, designed to humiliate her and break her spirit. I said I felt sorry for the Senator, just as I feel sympathy for what President Bush is now going through. Well, the mail poured in. Some of the letters vilified me for being "soft" on Hillary Clinton. There was more than a little hate contained in those missives, and I'm curious about it. What is it about Senator Clinton that causes so much animosity? The rest of his column can be read on his site.

GLOBAL WARMING - BRRR!

2007-02-14T15:04:00.000-05:00

The Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality hearing scheduled for Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building has been postponed due to inclement weather (ice storm and record low temperatures). The hearing is entitled "Climate Change: Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Human Activities Contributing to a Warming of the Planet?" The hearing will be rescheduled to a date and time to be announced later.

VOCABULARY WEEK. "DISSEMBLED ALTRUISM"

2007-02-11T20:41:00.000-05:00

VOCABULARY WEEK

Word of the Day: DISSEMBLED ALTRUISM. Hypocritical or feigned concern for others with personal gain in mind.

Usage: Although everyone thought he had their best interest in mind, everything he did was characterized by dissembled altruism.

IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE THAT WHEN GOVERNMENT INTERFERES WITH BUSINESS, GOING AGAINST FREE MARKET PRACTICES, THEY BREAK THINGS. THE NEWS SNIPET POINTED OUT IN THIS POST THAT RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE DESTROYS JOBS AND AN ECONOMY. AGAIN...ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, BUT APPARENTLY ABOVE LIBERAL POLITICIANS' HEADS.

New wage boost puts squeeze on teenage workers across Arizona: "New wage boost puts squeeze on teenage workers across Arizona- Employers are cutting back hours, laying off young staffers"

NEXT THING WE KNOW, GOVERNMENT KNOW-NOTHINGS WILL BE REQUIRING BUSINESS TO HIRE THEM BACK. THEY DON'T CARE HOW MANY LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS THEY DESTROY IN ORDER TO APPEAR BENEVOLENT.

AMERICA'S TWO OPEN-ENDED WARS

2007-02-08T22:05:00.000-05:00

Congress eyes legislation to fight climate change - Yahoo! News: "Congress eyes legislation to fight climate change"

The War on Iraq/Terror	The War on Global Warming
Waged by Republicans	Waged by Democrats
Threat of WMD's	Threat of WMD's
Increased government control	Increased government control
Limited intelligence	Limited intelligence
No time-table	No time-table
Unwinnable	Unwinnable
Threat level - Red	Threat level - Red
Precipitating event: 9/11	RPrecipitating event: Screening of "An Inconvenient Truth"

BUDGETS FOR DUMMIES

2007-02-08T08:35:00.000-05:00

When I was teaching back in the '90s I was one of the few professors on faculty who had "real world" experience. Therefore, many of the examples put forth to my students were from the real world. In one of my classes, before we began learning budgeting, I would ask the students what the current "budget surplus" meant (under the Clinton Administration). Most of them thought that we had wiped out the multi-trillion dollar national debt, many of them, that government was managing their money very well.

It wasn't until they began to learn what a budget was and how it worked that they understood the reality of it. By the time we had finished the module, they realized

1. that budget deficits were bad for America because our government was spending more than they were taking from us and

2. a budget surplus WAS BAD, BECAUSE THEY WERE OVER TAXING US, TAKING MUCH MORE THAN THEY REALLY NEEDED. On a personal level, many would consider this theft.

Of course, instead of giving the money back to us, cutting our taxes, or paying down the national debt, the politicians quickly adjusted their new budgets to spend the money and tagged on an extra percentage or two to make sure it didn't happen again.

Most of our perspective on budgets come from what politicians tell us and what media chooses to report.

When analyzing budgets one has to always be aware of bias. Its like most of us do when we do or don't want to buy something and we're justifying the decision to our spouse. If we don't want to buy it, its $10.00! If we DO want to buy it, its $9.99.

President Bush presented his budget which is as ridiculous in its scope as every budget in this nation has been for decades. That being said, the opposing politicians and media decide to report it in such a way to promote their agenda. Here are the tricks to look for.

Budget Cuts

Usage: "President Bush made "budget cuts" to Medicare."

The reality is that the Medicare budget was increased, but the percentage increase this year may be 9% as opposed to a 10% increase last year. Notice that they do not use whole dollar amounts for their illustration.

Increased Spending

Usage: "President Bush has increased military spending by 60 billion dollars"

The reality MAY be, that the spending increase was the accustomed 10% increase like every year, but inconsistent with the above, they do not report that there is no increase in the budget or if the % dropped by 1% that it was a "budget cut." Notice that they use whole dollars for their illustration. (Note: military spending did increase as a percentage with the new budget, but the above is just for example).

The only way to know the truth is understand a little about budgets and go to the source and find out for yourself. But maybe that is expecting to much from America's lazy population who would just have the answers (right OR wrong) fed to them.

For further info: http://newssnipet.googlepages.com/budgetsurplusfordummies

IN A TME WHEN AIR TRAFFIC EMMISSIONS ARE DESTROYING OUR PLANET...

2007-02-07T12:26:00.000-05:00

...GREEN PELOSI WANTS A PERSONAL JET. TYPICAL.

Pelosi's push for jet remains up in air - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper: "The Bush administration has agreed to provide House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with regular access to an Air Force passenger jet, but the two sides are negotiating whether she will get the big aircraft she wants and who she may take as passengers, according to congressional and administration sources. "

WAR TAX!

2007-02-07T12:22:00.000-05:00

This suggestion was bound to come sooner or later. We need a war tax. I have a good blogger friend who is way ahead of the politicians saying this quite some time ago. (Visit Doug's Blog - www.unitedcats.wordpress.com !)

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the only Democrat to support President Bush's Iraq War effort, proposed Tuesday that Congress consider a tax to fund the U.S. war on terrorism and reduce the need to cut domestic programs to pay for security spending.

I believe I missed the news that congress was considering a cut in domestic spending to pay for security spending. If they are indeed doing that, I applaud them. The only thing I have heard along those lines is Democrats grilling the president's budget director and treasury secretary over imaginary cuts in entitlement spending in the budget the president just submitted to congress. They allege that the president has cut over $100 billion in Medicare and Medicaid over the next five years.

Not true, says White House spokesman Tony Snow. "They are not cuts. They are increases on the order of 6.7 percent per year." Budget Director Rob Portman described the "cuts" as "sensible reforms primarily in Medicare that are less than a one percent reduction in the annual rate of growth." Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said slowing the rate of growth in Medicare spending is "absolutely essential" to avoid major tax increases in the future. Once again, we have some confusion about what constitutes a spending cut.

Beyond that, President Bush and Secretary Paulson insist that the new $2.9 trillion budget puts the government on the path to a balanced budget in five years. They also point out that the deficit has shrunk by 58 percent in the last three years, and that even the Congressional Budget Office (not given to rosy scenarios) predicts the deficit will remain near or below one percent of GDP for the next two years. The average over the past 40 years has been 2.4 percent of GDP.

In short, despite a spike in defense spending because of the war, the current tax structure is plenty sufficient to support the war effort. Also, what Democrats describe as "cuts" in entitlement spending are necessary, not to help fund the war, but to avoid a future fiscal crisis that has nothing to do with the war.

Maybe Lieberman thinks he's the only Democrat with the credentials necessary to propose a tax increase without conservatives attacking him for being a typical liberal. It won't work. Lieberman is a typical liberal on economic issues, and conservatives would be silly to reward his support for the war by threatening the prosperity of the people who are paying for the war.

If anything, it's time for another tax cut. Since 1970, the average total tax burden, (federal, state and local) as a percentage of national income, has been 30.5%. It peaked, at 33%, just before President Bush took office. Since then, it dropped to about 29% and has risen back to about 31.5%, about one percent above the average. Let's just call that one percent a "war tax" and get ready to cut taxes at the next available opportunity.

HERETIC!

2007-02-05T08:02:00.000-05:00

EVENTUALLY ALL DISSENTING HERETICS LIKE THIS WILL BE BURNED AT THE STAKE BY THE MOTHER CHURCH OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

The real deal?: "Dr. Shariv, a prolific researcher who has made a name for himself assessing the movements of two-billion-year-old meteorites, no longer accepts this logic, or subscribes to these views. He has recanted: 'Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. 'In fact, there is much more than meets the eye.'

Dr. Shariv's digging led him to the surprising discovery that there is no concrete evidence -- only speculation -- that man-made greenhouse gases cause global warming. Even research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change-- the United Nations agency that heads the worldwide effort to combat global warming -- is bereft of anything here inspiring confidence. In fact, according to the IPCC's own findings, man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth.

Unfortunately, our tools are too crude to reveal what man's effect has been in the past, let alone predict how much warming or cooling we might cause in the future."

YAAAH! IT CAN'T BE STOPPED!

2007-02-02T15:55:00.000-05:00

The clock is ticking!

The rabid crowd at the global warming love-fest in Paris say global warming is caused by man, and that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will "continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution. Nevertheless, the scientists urged the United States and other industrial nations to significantly cut their emissions of greenhouse gases in response to the long-awaited report. Why? If we can't stop it, why should we spend ourselves into poverty to slow it down just a little?

How little? Even if we reach all Kyoto requirements; Tom M.L. Wigley, chief scientist at the U.S. Center for Atmospheric Research, calculates that the earth would be only .07 degrees centigrade cooler by 2050.

How much will it cost? Earlier this week, I shared a column with you from Paul Driessen, a senior fellow with the Grassroot Institute. He says cutting access to fossil fuels would terminate millions of jobs, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and send living standards tumbling. He also says deaths from winter cold and summer heat waves would soar, as energy prices rise and heating and air-conditioning become luxury items. -Ralph Bristol. www.ralphbristol.com

LIBERAL RELIGIOSITY

2007-01-31T08:31:00.000-05:00

Questions are always healthy, and at one time liberals were the champions of skepticism. At one time. Liberals could largely be counted on to challenge the fundamental thought of the day--anything from religion to pseudo-sciences.

Times have changed, and contemporary liberals have become much of what they once despised. Seemingly paramount to their psyche is the adoption of concrete and fundamental often borderiing on religious fervor.

Of course they don't see it that way.

I remember a street preacher who was trying to convince those around him of their eternal damnation unless they repent; and he had the "facts" to prove it! Eerily similar, this tone is heard in today's prophets of doom preaching global warming destruction unless we repent; while having the "facts" to prove it.

It seems that gone are the days of liberal skeptical rationalism. Now is the time of pre-conditioned bias, unquestioning faith and "religious" zealotry .

Obama says liberals base their positions on rationale and fact.

Picture above: Tele-evangelist, Al Gore

FULL CIRCLE

2007-01-30T22:14:00.000-05:00

FULL CIRCLE

I do understand the bewilderment of the Greatest Generation who watch the squandering of its hard work, pain and sacrifice

but

I do not understand the selfishness of the Boomer Generation who then and now think the world owes them everything.

I do not understand the ego of Generation X who think that if the earth would just stand still and listen to them they offer the solutions to the world's problems.

but

I do understand the naivety of Generation Next who believe that life's benefits come without hard work, pain and sacrifice.

MANY RELIGIOUS LEADERS SAY...

2007-01-29T08:18:00.000-05:00

..."DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO!" BREITBART.COM - High-altitude hedonism in Davos: "Celebrity sightings may have been scarce, but the annual gathering of the world's most powerful people in Davos still managed to wrap its air of serious debate in a sheen of glamour. For all the grave talk about the dangers of climate change at the four-day meeting of corporate and political leaders, petrol-guzzling limousines and SUVs remained the transport mode of choice for the vast majority of participants. For the really 'serious money,' the road was left behind altogether in favour of a helicopter entry and departure to the small ski resort high in the Swiss Alps. "

BLACKS NOT ALLOWED

2007-01-26T16:56:00.000-05:00

OUR S.C. GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE WAS SET BASED ON THE FEAR THAT A BLACK MAN WOULD BE VOTED GOVERNOR, AND RATIFIED DURING A TIME WHEN BLACKS AND WOMEN WERE NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE. WE NOW HAVE A GOVERNOR WHO IS TRYING TO CHANGE THAT, BUT THE GOOD 'OL BOY NETWORK IS WORKING HARD AGAINST HIM. GreenvilleOnline.com -Opinion-Let's not bury restructuring - (1/26/2007): "Powerful forces in the state Senate apparently believe they have killed a significant part of Gov. Mark Sanford's plan to restructure state government so it will be more accountable and efficient. But hold off on the funeral for at least a couple of months. Sanford can work with the House of Representatives to resurrect a key part of government restructuring."

I'VE HEARD IT ALL!

2007-01-26T11:19:00.000-05:00

Taxes, black and white -- From time to time, I like to point out the absurdity of some arguments for the estate tax. Democrats frequently argue that the estate tax is just because it "only affects two percent of the population." The party that claims to be for minority rights thinks a tax that targets rich people is just because the targeted population is a minority – in this case a very small minority. I have often said, "What if there was a tax that only targeted black people? Would that be okay too?" Well, guess what? A black congressman is proposing a tax break for blacks and women only. It doesn't matter whether they are rich or poor. They would get the tax break because they are black or female. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) wants a tax break for minority and female ownership of media outlets. He calls it the Telecommunications Ownership Diversification Act, and it would give a capital gains tax deferment to black and female buyers of radio and TV stations. Good grief! Someone actually does think that taxation should be based on skin color. Ralph Bristol