Brief
Monday, February 8, 2010
The Foundation
"No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable." --Federalist No. 62
Culture
Super Bowl ad for the Census -- a fine use of taxpayer money"The U.S. Census Bureau ... squander[ed] $2.5 million on a half-minute Super Bowl ad starring D-list celebrity Ed Begley Jr., plus two pre-game blurbs and 12-second 'vignettes' featuring Super Bowl anchor James Brown. It's a drop in the census boondoggle bucket (otherwise known as the tax-subsidized National Democratic Future Voter Outreach Drive). The Obama White House has allocated a total of $340 million toward an 'unprecedented' promotional blitz for the 2010 census. That's on top of $1 billion in stimulus money siphoned off for increased census 'public outreach' and staffing. In all, the census will triple its total 2000 budget to $15 billion. Ads pimping the census have already appeared during the Golden Globe awards and will broadcast during the Daytona 500 and NCAA Final Four championships. Some $80 million will be poured into multilingual ads in 28 languages from Arabic to Yiddish. Racial and ethnic groups have been squabbling over their share of the pie. The U.S. census is a decennial census mandated by our Constitution. Should Americans know about it? Sure. Should the P.R. budget become a bottomless slush fund in recessionary times? Surely not." --columnist Michelle Malkin
Government
"Last month, Obama announced a new set of tax credits for so-called green companies. One window company was on the list: Serious Materials. This must be one very special company. But wait, it gets even more interesting. On my Fox Business Network show on 'crony capitalism', I displayed a picture of administration officials and so-called 'energy leaders' taken at the U.S. Department of Energy. Standing front and center was Cathy Zoi, who oversees $16.8 billion in stimulus funds, much of it for weatherization programs that benefit Serious. The interesting twist is that Zoi happens to be the wife of Robin Roy, who happens to be vice president of 'policy' at Serious Windows. Of all the window companies in America, maybe it's a coincidence that the one which gets presidential and vice presidential attention and a special tax credit is one whose company executives give thousands of dollars to the Obama campaign and where the policy officer spends nights at home with the Energy Department's weatherization boss. Or maybe not. ... On its website, Serious Materials says it did not get a taxpayer subsidy. But that's just playing with terms. What it got was a tax credit, an opportunity that its competitors did not get: to keep money it would have paid in taxes. Let's not be misled. Government is as manipulative with selective tax credits as it is with cash subsidies. It would be more efficient to cut taxes across the board. Why should there be favoritism? Because politicians like it. Big, complicated government gives them opportunities to do favors for their friends." --columnist John Stossel
The Gipper
"The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become." --Ronald Reagan
Opinion in Brief
"'I am not an ideologue,' President Obama insisted at his truly refreshing confab with the Republican caucus in Baltimore [recently]. When he heard some incredulous murmurs and chuckles from the audience in response to the idea that the most sincerely ideological president in a generation is no ideologue, he added a somewhat plaintive, 'I'm not.' The president's defensiveness isn't surprising. He holds his self-definition as a pragmatist dear, and not just because it polls well. It's clear from interviews that he is fond of the notion that he is above ideological squabbles and is a clear-eyed appraiser of facts and adjudicator of political disagreements. He's described himself as a 'pragmatist,' even a 'ruthless pragmatist,' countless times. The evidence offered that Obama is no ideologue rests almost entirely on two contentions: He has annoyed some members of his ideological base, and because he says so. ... Every president annoys his base. Are we therefore to believe that no president has ever been an ideologue? And how has Obama angered his base? Not by tacking to the center but by not going fast enough in pursuit of their shared goals. As for Obama's personal testimony, so what? Is this the one instance in American history when a politician's self-serving statements are to be taken at face value? ... Of course Obama is an ideologue. The important question is whether he is sufficiently self-aware to recognize the truth." --National Review editor Jonah Goldberg
Re: The Left
"President Obama's State of the Union address was the greatest American rhetorical embrace of fascist trope since the days of Woodrow Wilson. I am not suggesting Obama is a Nazi; he isn't. I am not suggesting that he is a jackbooted thug; he isn't (even if we could be forgiven for mistaking Rahm Emanuel for one). President Obama is, however, a man who embodies all the personal characteristics of a fascist leader, right down to the arrogant chin-up head tilt he utilizes when waiting for applause. He sees democracy as a filthy process that can be cured only by the centralized power of bureaucrats. He sees his presidency as a Hegelian synthesis marking the end of political conflict. He sees himself as embodiment of the collective will. No president should speak in these terms -- not in a representative republic. Obama does it habitually." --columnist Ben Shapiro
Political Futures
"Barack Obama is probably the most union-friendly president since Lyndon Johnson. He has obviously been unable to stop the decline of private-sector unionism. But he is doing his best to increase the power -- and dues income -- of public-sector unions. One-third of last year's $787 billion stimulus package was aid to state and local governments -- an obvious attempt to bolster public-sector unions. And it was a successful one: While the private sector has lost 7 million jobs, the number of public-sector jobs has risen. The number of federal government jobs has been increasing by 10,000 a month, and the percentage of federal employees earning over $100,000 has jumped to 19 percent during the recession. Obama and his party are acting in collusion with unions that contributed something like $400,000,000 to Democrats in the 2008 campaign cycle. Public-sector unionism tends to be a self-perpetuating machine that extracts money from taxpayers and then puts it on a conveyor belt to the Democratic Party. But it may not turn out to be a perpetual-motion machine. Public-sector employees are still heavily outnumbered by those who depend on the private sector for their livelihoods. The next Congress may not be as willing as this one has been to bail out state governments dominated by public-sector unions. Voters may bridle at the higher taxes needed to pay for $100,000-plus pensions for public employees who retire in their 50s. ... Obama's Democrats have used the financial crisis to expand the public sector and the public-sector unions. But voters seem to be saying, 'Enough.'" --political analyst Michael Barone

For the Record
"[T]he Obama administration's new budget will propose to zero out funding for Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear repository -- in effect, killing it. Instead, the Energy Department has announced the formation of a 'blue ribbon' commission 'to provide recommendations for developing a safe, long-term solution to managing the nation's used nuclear fuel and nuclear waste.' ... And why are we forming yet another blue ribbon commission to study a matter that has already been studied to death? The commission is empowered to study 'all options' except the one that has already been chosen by the United States government. So much for the previous blue ribbon commission that had settled on the Yucca Mountain site. American taxpayers have already invested more than $13 billion over 30 years to build the facility and make it redundantly safe. ... There is nothing dishonorable about opposing nuclear energy -- though the greenies who claim that global warming is their chief worry have some explaining to do if they reject nuclear power -- but there is something dishonest about claiming to favor nuclear power while simultaneously short-circuiting the most viable solution to the problem of long-term waste storage." --columnist Mona Charen
Reader Comments
"How ironic that the Commander-in-Chief can't pronounce 'corpsman.' His Black Liberation Theology religious mentor (Jeremiah Wright) just happened to be a Navy Hospital Corpsman at Bethesda. Maybe he never heard Wright talk about his background like he didn't hear his hate filled rhetoric over the twenty years he sat in the pews." --Tommy
"Next up for Obama: The Marine Corpse and the Army Corpse of Engineers. Imagine the uproar if Bush had said this or used a teleprompter while talking to 6th Graders. Give him some credit -- he's got that nose in the sky pose down pat." --KN
"What do you expect when you've got a guy who can't do anything but read a TelePrompter eloquently. Maybe they need to project the stuff to him phonetically."
"It is good to see Mark Alexander point to the downfall of the economic programs Ronald Reagan wanted. To only submit tax cuts without a corresponding reduction in government programs spells challenges for success and skews the data to a spin doctor's delight. Today many point to Reagan's failed policy yet it was not his failure, it was the failure of those surrounding his valiant efforts to reduce federal government, restore state level controls, and repair the damage of an out of control general growth begun and embraced in earnest under Roosevelt, Johnson, and Carter. When we hear people slam Reaganomics as failed this is the part of the historical facts they either do not know or will not accept. His programs were stopped from full implementation, government was not reduced as he so dearly wanted it to be." --Gary
"Thank you for compiling so much information from so many sources! I'm a homeschooling mom with seven children (yes, I'm sure I'm on the homeland terrorist watch list). I can spend a few minutes reading the Brief in between grading math problems or grammar and have a good understanding of many of the important talking points for the week. Thank you for making me more efficient!" --Anne
The Last Word
"I can't recall the wheels coming off the bus of any expert-driven hysteria as fast or as completely as they are now coming off the global-warming scare. ... News of the manipulations, distortions and frauds perpetrated to advance and preserve the environmentalists' cause celebre are so numerous and coming so fast, it's hard to keep up. First, of course, there were the e-mails and computer files leaked from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) -- one of a handful of climate-research centres around the world that are the pillars of the United Nations' claims about impending climate doom. ... Then a couple of weeks ago came the news that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's climate-change arm, had based its most recent findings on Himalayan glacier melt on an old study that had never been peer-reviewed or even published and which was based entirely on the speculation (not research) of a single Indian scientist who now works at the environmental think-tank run by the head of the IPCC, economist Rajendra Pachauri. This by itself wouldn't be devastating, except that the scientist in charge of the glacier chapter of the IPCC's latest assessment report (AR4) admitted he had known the melt estimate was wrong but had included it anyway because 'we thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.' That's not climate science, it's environmental activism, pure and simple.... Another revelation of malfeasance this week was the discovery that the chapter on Amazon rainforests in the IPCC's AR4, the one that included the often-repeated claim that 40 per cent of the forest is under imminent threat from climate change, was written not by climate scientists but by an policy analyst who works for environmental groups and a freelance environmental author. ... In all, so far, at least 16 major claims made in AR4 (the report for which the IPCC won a Nobel Prize) have been shown to have originated with environmental groups rather than scientists.... Does all this prove global warming is a hoax? I believe it does. But at the least, it shows the science is far from settled." --Edmonton Journal columnist Lorne Gunter
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Sherry martin
Thank goodnes someone in the media knows what is happening. Vote them all out and cancel everything. Start again with Sarah paulin in charge.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 11:21:36 AM
DuffyD
Give him some credit -- he's got that nose in the sky pose down pat." --KN I thought I recognized that "classic" Mussolini pose.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 11:31:22 AM
Henry Scally
Gentlemen;
I want to thank you for your material. I have become an avid reader of the Patriot Post in the past year, and it gives me hope that all is not yet lost for the Country I Love. considering the recent shennanigans by our Teleprompter Reader In Chief, I think it's time you came out with a new bumper sticker. It would say simply, "Support the Constitution-Impeach Obama!!" If you come out with this, I'll buy at least a dozen! DON'T GIVE UP!!!
Posted February 8, 2010 at 11:47:03 AM
Seth
Yup, the flies have almost conquered the fly paper.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 11:57:01 AM
Marlane F. Bengry
Thank you sooooooooo much for your information. I look forward to each email and learn so much. Although my stomach churns each time I read how Obama & Congress is slowly and deliberately bringing down our wonderful country... Thank you again.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 11:57:11 AM
Barb Shriver
For the life of me I can't understand why the left is deriding the expenditures of the Bush Admin. He spent so much on things that the Dems love.....wha happened? My husband and I spent many years in Soviet Ukraine , "emerging democracy' Ukraine and most of the NIS and socialist Germany....believe me that experience empowered me to work to dump Dodd and to work hard to defeat those who aren't working for the core values I hold dearly - fiscal responsibility, strong defense, reasonable health reform, American exceptionalism, freedom of speech, the Constitution and, term limits, tort reform in all things, and all those things a candidate needs to win an election in this electrically charged countdown to the end of the Obama administration!
So many of the people we met in our work wanted to come to America - now they aren't so sure - we are beginning to look to them like a banana republic....they might as well stay home and try to fix their own country.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 12:07:36 PM
MelPreslar
Change is inevitable, except from a Vending Machine! Today's Government Administration is often like a Vending Machine, what you want will not be what you get! The country's frustration level is steadily rising and it is somewhat like shaking a vending machine, somehow we think, it causes it to work better! The shaking is in progress......the voters have been misled enough! Shake, shake, and shake 2010 and 2012!
Posted February 8, 2010 at 12:25:19 PM
KN
I might add that someone ought to come up with a cartoon showing Obama wounded and calling for a "corpseman" and then having an undertaker or "Lurch" from the old Addams Family show up with a "You rang?"
Posted February 8, 2010 at 12:50:40 PM
Joe Clem
Mona Charen writes, "American taxpayers have already invested more than $13 billion over 30 years to build the (Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear repository) facility and make it redundantly safe." Not quite accurate. In truth the federal government promised 30 years ago to provide nuclear plants with a safe place to store spent fuel, after Cater vetoed any further plan to reprocess spent fuel. Since then the government has been taxing nuclear plants while it built Yucca Mountain. I guess you could say American taxpayers payed for Yucca Mountain thru the nuclear plants who passed the costs on to the consumers. Now we store spent fuel at 104 nuclear plant sites around the country, while we wait another 30 years for enough political will in Washington to prevail. It won't happen in 30 years either! The best solution is to actually use Yucca Mountain for the purpose for which it was designed, just as we should do with Guantanamo. Won't happen until we get rid of Obama.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 12:54:24 PM
Wayne Boyd
Thank you very much for confirming what the vast majority thought, but lacked the resources to validate, was taking place! Kudos!
Posted February 8, 2010 at 12:57:21 PM
Patricia Smith
Where is any inquest going to occur which can cut the tenticles of government choking the life from small business in the United States?
What inquest can reverse the tide of mandates piling up from the blizzard of lies which accompany the global powersqueeze entitled "global warming"?
And who will reverse the false teachings seeping through the minds of our young people?
Posted February 8, 2010 at 1:01:35 PM
connie
Obama is a perfect example of an fanatic ideologue. An ideologue is arrogant, narcissistic, has illusions of grandeur, opinionated, has no regard for divergent opinions, a poor listener and is dictatorial in his position of authority, and is a danger to personal liberty and freedom. My friends who have voted Democrat tell me they're sorry they voted him in and say they are truly afraid of his radical vision of CHANGE for Americas. They join me in the HOPE that his visions stay only in his head and do not become our reality.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 1:21:55 PM
Buck
Global Warming: The Perfect Scam
No way to prove GW. No way to prove the necessary rules and regulations on the rest of us did not prevent GW.
So the GW's force you into their "green" life, take your hard earned dollars and then tell you THEIR efforts have delayed GW but YOU MUST adhere to their new rules, regulations and taxes to further prevent GW.
What a scam. Sell something that isn't so. Then sell a cure for something that isn't so. And then claim the cure has solved the problem....
Posted February 8, 2010 at 2:10:08 PM
Tina
Wonder how Obama would mispronounce "espirit de corps?!" Guess they don't "larn" them those sorts of things at Hah-vard.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 2:17:01 PM
thomas mayo
Keep up the good work!!!!
and as Winston Churchill was so fond of saying: NEVER give up!
Posted February 8, 2010 at 2:52:04 PM
Mike Patterson
You talk about your typical left wing media bias and every day its more ridiculous. Saturday, Gov. Palin hesitated several time to glance at her notes in her speech to the TEA Party convention. Sarah was being Sarah. She wanted to be sure she was right in her delivery of the subject. Yet today all the wackos are out there trying to say yet again, she isnt bright enough to be President. Face it, they are scared to death as she represents America as it should be. THe sad thing is that BHO is nothing without his teleprompter and yet nothing is ever said. I can only pray we hold all these people accountable in the upcoming elections and bring in a bunch of thinkers and not sheep.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 3:37:06 PM
Charles Clapp
I believe Obama's pronouncing "corpsmen" as "corpsemen" is by far the worst verbal error ever made by a US president. It tells us all that the Kenyan Kandidate knows and cares nothing about our miltary.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 3:39:38 PM
Greg
I'm sorry, but Obama's "mispronunciation" of corpsman seems to be just another sign that he's a left wing elitist, who's never in his life had to spend significant time dealing with normal Americans. From Hawaii to California to Mass. to Illinois. Has the guy even been to Texas???
Posted February 8, 2010 at 4:04:30 PM
Retired Army 1SG
The stock market continues to fall, unemployment continues to raise. The cost of living increases, the value of your paycheck (if you're lucky enough to have one) has less value. All the while we have this pompous socialist, BHO, running this once proud and wonderful country straight into the ground. I fondly remember the great "Reagan Day's" and pray that someone soon steps up to the plate. In the meantime, you folks at the Patriot...please continue your wonderful work.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 4:48:52 PM
Mike
Please keep up the good work. The community organizer in Washington has to go.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 5:26:09 PM
Jana
As a high school social studies teacher I am amazed at how much junk I am getting from the census drive. I have received 2 sets of maps that are pretty much useless to me along with classroom materials that I have no time to use since I am trying to prepare the students for NCLB end-of-instruction testing. I went to a social studies conference for teachers this last weekend and received a "free" t-shirt along with yet more pencils, pens, erasers, bookmarks and notebooks all with "Census 2010" logos on them. Oh yeah, and don't let me forget the coloring books they sent to me and handed out at the conference.
"Free"....that is what I would like to remain but ridiculous government spending keeps me in chains!
Posted February 8, 2010 at 6:19:11 PM
Frank Waterstraat
02/08/10
DUFFEY,you are right about the"MUSSOLINI"pose.
When i first saw the LOOKALIKE pose portrayed by
OBAMA.I wonder what his final picture will look
like??
Posted February 8, 2010 at 6:56:32 PM
Howard Last
Come census time maybe we should all just fill in the number of people living in the home as the Constitution requires? The rest just leave blank as I can't find any Constitutional mandate for it.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 7:31:37 PM
Retired Army 1SG
"connie" hit it with one quick and tight shot group. Obama is a perfect example of an fanatic ideologue. He is in fact a very arrogant, narcissistic individual who has illusions of driving the United States of America into the United Socialist States of America. Big Government and no individiual freedom (we're too dumb) He's a danger to our personal liberty and freedom. If we want CHANGE, we have to start a CHANGE with the next elections, local, state and federal. Sorry connie...I had to borrow a few of your phrases...the struck a cord.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 8:28:54 PM
FreeNorth
Today was a good day for America - Washington was shut down by a blizzard.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 8:42:59 PM
Mic
A freudian slip by Obama ? It seems to me that Obama would be more than happy if all our corpsman became corpseman. After all it was during his run for the Presidency that he talked about the need for a National Police Force equal to our Armed Forces, if that ever comes to be, he'll know the correct way to pronounce corpsman.
Posted February 8, 2010 at 9:05:50 PM
C Barry Wetherington
He's spending like a drunken sailor, but getting far less value than if He spent the entire time and money at His Navy Pier Brothel. bw
Posted February 8, 2010 at 10:40:32 PM
WILSON
The global warming people seem to miss these truths--where you are now standing was once covered by several thousand feet of glacial ice! During the Pleistocene epoch great ice sheets advanced southward from Canada across what is now Lake Erie lowlands, up over the escarpment and continued south to Jamestown N.Y. This is talking about glaciers which covered most of the northern U.S. which melted about 12000 yrs ago. Doesn't this proof mean that global warming started even before then? Even Al Gores movie talks about the water that escaped from this period into the ocean changing the oceans currents. Apparently global warming started long before Man arrived on this planet
Posted February 8, 2010 at 11:53:00 PM
Fred
[Quote from The Last Word,
In all, so far, at least 16 major claims made in AR4 (the report for which the IPCC won a Nobel Prize) have been shown to have originated with environmental groups rather than scientists.... Does all this prove global warming is a hoax? I believe it does. But at the least, it shows the science is far from settled."]
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It kind of proves that the Nobel Prize is a joke too.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 12:37:41 AM
Frank Shipley
I am a fixer of guns of all sorts. But I am also relatively smart. For those who want to check the greenies concerning "global warming", there is a way to get an idea of the real statistics. Check the data in your favorite almanac for the record high and low temperatures for every state, and plot the years those occured on a graph that corresponds time and temperatures. It will probably end up a scatter diagram, rather than a line. If you find the temperatures are trending significantly higher in the more recent years, that might support "warming" enough for you to research further. If not, I would look at "warming" as less than reasonably supported, and look for the motives of the warming crowd.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 2:30:13 AM
Chuck Moody
As I read the comment about Owebama's arrogant, chin-in-the-air stance while waiting for applause, I couldn't help but think of another who adopted that same stance and who wished to control the economy from the top--Benito Mussolini.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 2:33:35 AM
Ruth Ann Wilson
I thought that, too, Mr. North. Washington, DC was paralyzed yesterday by SNOW. "He that sitteth in the Heavens shall laugh and the Lord shall have them in derision" Ps. 2
I thought about Saturday night, they couldn't get out, so most of them probably had to "tune into Sarah" in Nashville. Reckon, that's why all the "Polls" dropped yesterday and Hussein is "falling out of favor" with the "crowd".
"Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath and vex in His sore displeasure" Ps 2 So take heart, God has heard the prayers and seen the work. This is God's Country and it is My Country. "Do not be weary in well doing for due time you shall reap."
That's a promise.
For God & Country
Ruth Ann Wilson
Posted February 9, 2010 at 8:05:23 AM
Dr. K. T. Adams
It is quite clear that when scientific studies and research become political issues, they cease to maintain they validity. Politics make strange bed-fellows but politicized science makes for an even more stranger bed-fellow!
Posted February 9, 2010 at 9:24:00 AM
Tom MacMurray
Following is a quote from Scots philosopher John Macmurray, which is, I think, very appropriate to far too many politicans...
We know that a man who habitually trifles with the truth tends to lose the capacity to distinguish bewteen truth and falsehood. It is dangerously easy to deceive ourselves about what we believe. If a person keeps repeating a story that is not true they come to believe that the falsehood is true. If we hear a falsehood repeated often enough we tend to begin to belive that the lie is true.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 10:43:21 AM
Mark Wiesinger
Re: Mona Charen on Yucca Mountain. The latest thinking in the electric utility / nuclear power industry is that spent nuclear fuel should first be reprocessed in breeder reactors and given a second economic life. But even if that never happens, spent nuclear fuel is a very small mass in relation to the amount of energy it puts out. It can be entombed in concrete on the site of the unit that used it: the lifetime (say 50 years) amount of fuel for a large twin unit plant would be substantially less in size than one of the units.
So let the environmental protesters' lightning rod die a quiet death, while we go about our business of providing reliable and economical electric power.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 11:20:56 AM
Mark Wiesinger
Re: Mona Charen on Yucca Mountain. The latest thinking in the electric utility / nuclear power industry is that spent nuclear fuel should first be reprocessed in breeder reactors and given a second economic life. But even if that never happens, spent nuclear fuel is a very small mass in relation to the amount of energy it puts out. It can be entombed in concrete on the site of the unit that used it: the lifetime (say 50 years) amount of fuel for a large twin unit plant would be substantially less in size than one of the units.
So let the environmental protesters' lightning rod die a quiet death, while we go about our business of providing reliable and economical electric power.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 12:21:19 PM
Eugene Routheaux
The Bible has 1915 pages,it takes some serious effort to read and understand, it requires us to review it many times, but at the end of the day we will come up short of a full understanding.
The health care bill has 2000 plus pages of complexity,(I assume) when in fact the issue is not complex, People who need care, need a way to pay for it.
Getting the money to the care provider, if this process requires more than 5 pages, someone is up to no good. Thank you Eugene
Ps Will be back on board with you folks, soon$$
Posted February 9, 2010 at 3:40:08 PM
Eugene Routheaux
Einstien contrasted the universe with stupidity, he thought the universe was infinite, but wasn't sure.
Of stupitity he was quite sure.
For evidence of this, global warming debate.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 3:51:11 PM
Bill Ball
Thanks to Mark Alexander and this on-line publication. 'TIS A BREATH OF FREEDOM AIRE!
May I make a simple suggestion for action, which may help put all of our angst in perspective.
We should all install a bumpr sticker which simply says: "un-elect'Um All". and then vote every elected person OUT! At every level of Government.
So what if some nut jobs or children get elected?. Nothing could be worse than those entrenched politicians now. If they are incumbant, kick 'um out! Then later, we can find honest folks to elect.
We really do need to clean house in Congress! The White House can do nothing, unless Congress allows it. SO CHANGE CONGRESS.
UN-ELECT 'UM ALL
Posted February 9, 2010 at 4:38:27 PM
Lance
I heard from two different sources today that the snowstorm shuttering the agencies in Washington, DC was costing $100 million in lost "productivity". In comparison to the trillions wasted when they put their collective minds to it, at only $36.5 billion for a year, it seems reasonable that it would be cheaper to shut it down for a longer period.
Posted February 9, 2010 at 6:34:59 PM
Barb
The article written by Lorne Gunter was excellent. It has been a very interesting few months in regard to the "horrors" of global warming. Wouldn't you like to be a picture on the wall in Al Gore's houseboat, mansion, jet plane? Did I miss anything?
Posted February 10, 2010 at 10:15:51 AM
Joe Earley
Excellent article on the non-existence of Global Warming. For many years, I have followed the publications of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Environment & Climate News, and their climate data has never supported Gore's conclusions. Since ClimateGate broke, with the deleting of data, then the emails proving collusion among "scientists," followed by more revelations, it is hard to imagine that there are those who still believe in AGW. Of course, the fact that most of the believers are elected Democrats still intent on ruining our economy explains it.
Gore claims that he is only putting his money (investments in carbon credit operations) where his mouth is. I say he is putting his mouth where his money is.
The thing that galls me the most is that the main-stream media declines to give the news more than mere mention, if that. We are a nation of fact-deprived sheeple as a result.
Posted February 10, 2010 at 3:18:05 PM
Dave Reiter
What's all this fuss we're always hearing about ideologues? C'mon, make me smart -- just when was it that ideology became a dirty word? And exactly how does ideaology differ from principle? Shades of meaning sure are useful in prolonging disputes aren't they?
Posted February 10, 2010 at 4:10:17 PM
Recce1
The question we who respect the Constitution must ask ourselves is whether or not we've let the socialist/fascist movement reach critical mass. If so, no matter what we do the results won't be without serious pain.
So what can we do to oppose the coming tyranny? First, we can continue to trust the Republican Party, the one owned by the neoconservatives and special interests, to see the error of its ways and reform itself. Or we can run as if our lives depended on it to a third party that pledges itself to the Constitution. Our very lives just might depend on it.
If the foregoing fail, then we need to dust off a superordinate document, the Declaration of Independence, and take it to heart with a vengeance.
Posted February 13, 2010 at 10:46:34 PM