Looking through my referrels and noticed that I was getting a bunch of interest from Pundit Review…went over to see what I could see and ended up spending some quality time perusing a terrific blog. You should to…for whatever my recommendation is worth. Start here and wander around.
The 12 Days of Global Warming The 12 Days of Global Warming | Pundit Review
Will be adding Pundit Review to my blogroll if I can remember how…
This is an email in response to a heads up on a private email list regarding the Pajama Media initiative "Conservatism 2.0"
It (Conservatism 2.0) will be interesting if it actually adopts conservative positions instead of knee jerk support President Bush’s positions. We don’t need any more No Children Left Behind, Prescription Drug Benefits, Islam is the Religion of Peace, Killing Free Enterprise to Save It, Bail Out Everyone Because Failure is Unacceptable, Shamesty, A Republican Party That Nominates A Guy Who Threw the Race for President, Bipartisanship a Value Unto itself and the rest of the nonsense forced upon us by "Compassionate Conservatives"….aka as Democrats.
We need to stop listening to folks like Parker, Frum, Krauthammer and the rest of the Democrats who call themselves Republicans. We will never win by being Democrats lite. We will win by having someone at the top of the Republican Party who can actually defend the idea of Freedom. Who doesn’t reach for Government everytime something goes wrong. Who can defend freedom for its own sake. Who revels in the individual…not the State.
We ran Moderate McCain a man who is renowned for his bipartisanship and if he didn’t deliberately THROW the election he ran the most incompetent campaign in the history of politics. Never again a moderate…freedom is not a moderate value. I do not want to be moderately free.
We have seen such men and women before…we need to get rid of the establishment who gave us McCain and find those sorts of folks who gave us those who love Freedom. It is worth defending.
And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and the most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man.
This is the issue of this election: whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capitol can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a left or right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down: [up] man’s old — old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.
Moderation….
"I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, ‘I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!’ You don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked."
Pierre Legrand
PS to my email. I believe that Governor Sarah Palin has the natural instincts to fit this description. She may not be able to describe it in eloquent terms yet but she does something far more valuable than that…she lives it. No other politician on the national scene understands our craving for freedom as well as Governor Palin. That is why she was attacked by the cynical political handlers around McCain, they cannot stand anyone who shows them for what they are…corrupt and cynical folks who haven’t a clue about freedom.
This absolutely incredibly devastating article regarding Man Made Global Warming appeared on the premier Leftist Website. Holy Shit Batman! Read the whole thing!
You are probably wondering whether President-elect Obama owes the world an apology for his actions regarding global warming. The answer is, not yet. There is one person, however, who does. You have probably guessed his name: Al Gore. 8
Mr. Gore has stated, regarding climate change, that "the science is in." Well, he is absolutely right about that, except for one tiny thing. It is the biggest whopper ever sold to the public in the history of humankind.
What is wrong with the statement? A brief list:1. First, the expression "climate change" itself is a redundancy, and contains a lie. Climate has always changed, and always will. There has been no stable period of climate during the Holocene, our own climatic era, which began with the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. During the Holocene there have been numerous sub-periods with dramatically varied climate, such as the warm Holocene Optimum (7,000 B.C. to 3,000 B.C., during which humanity began to flourish, and advance technologically), the warm Roman Optimum (200 B.C. to 400 A.D., a time of abundant crops that promoted the empire), the cold Dark Ages (400 A.D. to 900 A.D., during which the Nile River froze, major cities were abandoned, the Roman Empire fell apart, and pestilence and famine were widespread), the Medieval Warm Period (900 A.D. to 1300 A.D., during which agriculture flourished, wealth increased, and dozens of lavish examples of Gothic architecture were created), the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1850, during much of which plague, crop failures, witch burnings, food riots — and even revolutions, including the French Revolution — were the rule of thumb), followed by our own time of relative warmth (1850 to present, during which population has increased, technology and medical advances have been astonishing, and agriculture has flourished).Harold Ambler: Mr. Gore: Apology Accepted 8
Hey isn’t this the same guy who said this : "I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so I was not aware of what was happening," . So I am guessing that that statement wasn’t quite enough for the Federal Prosecutors? Sheesh this guy isn’t even in office and he is apparently involved in high crimes and misdemeanors. Billy Clinton must be so envious…
Obama Interviewed In Blagojevich Probe President-elect, two aides quizzed last week by federal prosecutors
DECEMBER 23–President-elect Barack Obama and two of his top advisers were interviewed last week by federal prosecutors probing Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s alleged bid to sell Obama’s vacated Senate seat, according to a report issued today by an Obama lawyer. The lawyer, Gregory Craig, concluded that Obama and his aides engaged in no improper conduct in connection with the Senate opening. A copy of the Craig report can be found below.
As part of his review of transition team "contacts" with Blagojevich, Craig reported that only incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had spoke with the Illinois pol. Emanuel, Craig disclosed, had "one or two telephone calls" with Blagojevich in early-November. Emanuel reportedly gave Blagojevich a "heads up" that he was accepting Obama’s offer of the chief of staff job (and, as a result, would be resigning his congressional seat).
Emanuel also "had a brief discussion with the Governor about the Senate seat and the merits of various people whom the Governor might consider." Craig also noted that Emanuel had "about four telephone conversations with John Harris, Chief of Staff to the Governor, on the subject of the Senate seat.
In these conversations, Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Harris discussed the merits of potential candidates and the strategic benefit that each candidate would bring to the Senate seat." Obama Interviewed In Blagojevich Probe - December 23, 2008 2
So KHAQ on November 5th reports of a upcoming Obama Blagojevich meeting to discuss the Senate seat. The TV Station on November 8th reports that the meeting went well. I cannot link to those stories directly because after the LightWorker announces that he has had NO contact with Blago the stories are scrubbed from the news site and from Google. Now you see it now you don’t journalism.
Then…..
November 23 his top advisor David Axelrod says this on Fox News 5:
"I know he’s talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them."
Then after the Blago arrest all of a sudden Axelrod announces a few weeks later that he was mistaken, Obama never met with Blago. Okey Dokey…
Then December 11th we here this:
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama 0 pledged Thursday to disclose any interaction between his transition team and the office of besieged Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois , while declaring again that he and his staff had no involvement in deal-making over an appointment to his vacated Senate seat.
Now on December 23 with Rahm going to Africa and the LightWorker vacationing in Hawaii at his 9 million dollar home we find out that Rahm talked to Blago about the Senate Seat and he talked to John Harris, Blago Chief of Staff and also indicted along with Blago, several times. And they were discussing the Senate Seat and what sort of strategic benefit each candidate would bring to the Senate Seat. Gosh nothing going on here…
Now we find out that Federal Prosecutors are interviewing the President-Elect…yea nothing to see here.
Look for this story to be buried as quickly as possible since it won’t do to have the Government’s newest taxing tactic discredited.
As a prank, students from local high schools have been taking advantage of the county’s Speed Camera Program in order to exact revenge on people who they believe have wronged them in the past, including other students and even teachers.
Students from Richard Montgomery High School dubbed the prank the Speed Camera "Pimping" game, according to a parent of a student enrolled at one of the high schools.
Originating from Wootton High School, the parent said, students duplicate the license plates by printing plate numbers on glossy photo paper, using fonts from certain websites that "mimic" those on Maryland license plates. They tape the duplicate plate over the existing plate on the back of their car and purposefully speed through a speed camera, the parent said. The victim then receives a citation in the mail days later. Hat Tip Corner: The Tomfoolery of Tomorrow Here Today - Mark Hemingway - The Corner on National Review Online
I am guessing that this is both Bush’s fault and that we, the taxpayers, will be on the hook for bailing the clowns who took part in this swindle. Ponzi schemes are as old as dirt and you would think that people with Harvard degrees might be able to avoid them…you would be wrong. Hey Harvard grads about investments, if it is too good to be true, it most likely isn’t true. You might also apply that to your politicians…those hopey changey types.
Top world financial groups on Monday revealed massive potential losses from an alleged scam run by Wall Street trader Bernard Madoff, admitting they were fooled by a classic pyramid investment fraud.
British, French, Japanese and Spanish banks and funds said investments totalling billions of dollars (euros) could be wiped off their balance sheets by a scandal that is set to affect some of the richest people in the world.
Royal Bank of Scotland said it could lose about 400 million pounds (598 million dollars, 444 million euros), joining a growing list of banks and investors in Europe, Asia and the United States struck by the scandal. Top banks admit huge losses in Wall Street ‘pyramid’ fraud
Gosh he sure is predictable he just loves playing the punk to the Democrats. He is STILL playing the bullshit act on Obama being respectable. Dumbass couldn’t have beat Obama even if Obama would have announced Ayers as his Vice President. Can we be rid of those “Republicans” like Powell and McCain once and for all and can we fix a system that gave us McCain as a Presidential candidate in the first place?
McCain replied: “I think that the Obama campaign should and will give all information necessary. You know, in all due respect to the Republican National Committee and anybody — right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together, not only on an issue such as this, but on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary. And so, I don’t know all the details of the relationship between President-elect Obama’s campaign or his people and the governor of Illinois, but I have some confidence that all the information will come out. It always does, it seems to me.” McCain scolds GOP for whacking Obama - Mike Allen - Politico.com 2
So you are an elector committed by a vote for Obama by a vote held a long time ago before this unprecedented cloud of corruption descended on him…but you can change your vote. hmmmm….anyone feeling a bit used and abused yet?
President-elect Barack Obama is refusing to answer any questions about the internal review he has ordered into Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s alleged efforts to sell his former Senate seat, saying he will do so when the examination is finished.
Obama’s staff has declined to respond to even basic questions, like who is conducting the probe, how long it will take, what issues are being explored and whether they are working with federal investigators. Obama has promised transparency throughout his service and to divulge contacts his staff has had with Blagojevich’s office in the coming days. But his staff has locked down on inquiries in the meantime. The Associated Press: Obama aides won’t discuss Ill. governor probe
Obama has been associated with Blago and Rahm for YEARS…do you electors actually believe he isn’t the most corrupt politician to get elected to the Presidency of the United States? Hat tip for the following information to Free Republic
The Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not require that electors be completely free to act as they choose and therefore, political parties may extract pledges from electors to vote for the parties’ nominees.
Although some State laws provide that so-called "faithless electors" may be subject to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and be replaced by a substitute elector, the Court has not specifically ruled on the question of whether pledges and penalties for failure to vote as pledged may be enforced under the Constitution, and no elector has ever been prosecuted for failing to vote as pledged.
There are 48 States that have a winner-takes-all rule for the Electoral College. In these States, whichever candidate receives a majority of the vote, or a plurality of the popular vote (less than 50 percent but more than any other candidate) takes all of the State’s electoral votes. In Virginia, one of the "winner-takes-all" states, their State Statute does not enforce its pledges to cast their votes but only is advisory in saying that its electors "Shall be expected" to vote, meaning that Virginia Electors can conscientiously not vote for the winner in their state.
ELECTORS NOT LEGALLY REQUIRED TO VOTE FOR OBAMA
ARIZONA 10 Electoral Votes
ARKANSAS 6 Electoral Votes
DELAWARE 3 Electoral Votes
GEORGIA 15 Electoral Votes
IDAHO 4 Electoral Votes
ILLINOIS 21 Electoral Votes
INDIANA 11 Electoral Votes
IOWA 7 Electoral Votes
KANSAS 6 Electoral Votes
KENTUCKY 8 Electoral Votes
LOUISIANA 9 Electoral Votes
MINNESOTA 10 Electoral Votes
MISSOURI 11 Electoral Votes
NEW HAMPSHIRE 4 Electoral Votes
NEW JERSEY 15 Electoral Votes
NEW YORK 31 Electoral Votes
NORTH DAKOTA 3 Electoral Votes
PENNSYLVANIA 21 Electoral Votes
RHODE ISLAND 4 Electoral Votes
SOUTH DAKOTA 3 Electoral Votes
TENNESSEE 11 Electoral Votes
TEXAS 34 Electoral Votes
UTAH 5 Electoral Votes
WEST VIRGINIA 5 Electoral
Votes
TOTAL
257
Electoral
Votes
Obama says he never had any discussions about the Senate seat with Blago. Well first off that is ridiculous given how important that Senate seat is to the Democratic party. Of COURSE he had discussions with Blago. He would have been even stupider than I give him credit for had he NOT had discussions. The question is was he in negotiations with Blago about it. And on that question his lying about having discussions sure makes him look as guilty as hell. You have to be impressed and a bit heartened by the sheer level of political incompetence this clown/”president-elect” is showing.
So now we find out that his long time buddy and indeed the person who helped plan Blago’s political run for office in concert with Obama did indeed have discussions…ooopsy.
WFLD-TV: Rahm Emanuel Reportedly Spoke with Blagojevich About Senate Seat
"The source said there were a list of names given to the Governor’s office of candidates that would be acceptable to President-Elect Barack Obama."Breitbart.tv » Report: Rahm Emanuel Had ‘Multiple’ Conservations With Blagojevich About Senate Seat
Btw I downloaded this clip just in case…you know just it case it goes under the bus with Rahm. Remember earlier this week when another Illinois news outlet scrubbed their site and Google 1 of incriminating evidence. The Lightworker likes everyone to keep in line.
A long time ago when Obama still knew the sort of person that Wright, Ayers and a whole host of others who he no longer knows or persons he has since discovered are not the folks he thought he knew…or whatever confusing set of bullshit reasons this asshole concocted to buffalo the public he used to use Blago as a political ally, and Blago’s political fundraiding fundraising wizard Rezko as a fundraiser and Rahm helped them all . Winning snippet from previous link.
In 2002, Mr. Obama turned up to help Mr. Blagojevich, a staunch ally of Mr. Jones, win the governor’s mansion. Rahm Emanuel, Mr. Obama’s incoming White House chief of staff, told The New Yorker earlier this year that six years ago he and Mr. Obama "participated in a small group that met weekly when Rod was running for governor. We basically laid out the general election, Barack and I and these two [other participants]."
But Obama had NO IDEA that Blago was corrupt…that is NOT the Blago, Rezko, Rahm, Ms. Blago, Wright, Pflegar, Farrakan, Kahladi that he knew. Ok sure whatever.
John Kass of The Chicago Tribune:"Obama is a creature of Chicago Politics. The machine runs Chicago… There seems to be a willful attempt by some outside Chicago to sort of not consider that Obama is a Chicago political guy."
Check. Hey how about other little meetings that Lightworker had? Like this one!
What is most striking about this Pentagon report is that it is from the year 2004, when Mr. Auchi traveled by private aircraft to Midway Airport in Chicago and then to a fete at the Four Season Hotel, where he met with his business partner in Chicago real estate, Mr. Rezko, as well as with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Also present that night, according to a fresh report by James Bone and Dominic Kennedy of the London Times, was State Senator Barack Obama, who had recently won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat that next fall. Bone and Kennedy report that Mr. Auchi and Mr. Obama shook hands. Mr. Obama’s aide does not now recall the handshake but does agree that Mr. Obama was present in the hotel that evening.
Gosh you know that this meeting was simply a fun group of guys getting together to talk about their children.
Five in the morning my daughter Marlo comes running through the house screaming that its SNOWING. And it sure is, not those little chickenshit snows that sometimes happen down here but heavy fun snow. Naturally the Legrand’s went outdoors immediately…heh. Homeschool kids have lots of advantages over the indoctrination clan. So at 5:15 in the morning we are outside…the girls were outside before that but only as long as it took me to remind them that going outdoors in the snow in their PJ’s might not be wise. Can you say excited? I know you can. See we don’t get snow down here like this very often. Last time we had measurable snow and this measured right around 3 inches, WOW!
Here is the report from our local weather guru…DAVE NUSSBAUM
This snowstorm ranks as the 4th snowiest in Baton Rouge history:
1) February 14-15, 1895 - 12.5″
2) January 23, 1940 - 3.5″
3) February 5, 1988 - 3.2″
4) December 11, 2008 - 3.0″
5) January 11-12, 1973 - 1.8″
6) January 30, 1949 - 1.6″
Some of these pictures open in a new window…
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One of the primary arguments against torture has always been it doesn’t work. Oops.
In the interrogation room, Ennigkeit tells Gäfgen that a “special officer” is on his way. If Gäfgen does not tell Ennigkeit where the boy is, the “special officer” will “make him feel pain that he will not forget.” On Gäfgen’s own account, the formula is still more menacing: the officer “will make you feel pain like you have never felt before.” “Nobody can help you here,” Ennigkeit tells him, according to Gäfgen’s testimony. “We can do whatever we want with you.” On Gäfgen’s account, moreover, Ennigkeit already begins to rough him up: shaking him so violently that his head bangs against the wall and hitting him in the chest hard enough to leave a bruise over his collarbone. Gäfgen’s testimony is consistent with the tenor of Daschner’s instructions, which, on Daschner’s own admission, called for the “use of direct force” [ Anwendung unmittelbaren Zwangs].
In any case, whether the mere threat of pain has been sufficient or the latter has had to be supplemented by the “use of direct force,” within minutes of Ennigkeit’s entering the interrogation room Gäfgen talks. He tells Ennigkeit where Jakob is to be found. Police rush to the location and find the boy dead, his corpse wrapped in plastic and submerged under a wooden jetty in a pond.1 Hoover Institution - Policy Review - “Torture” in the Dock
Naturally because we are trying to lose the war we take the opposite tack with a far more dangerous person.
In early October 2002, the questioning of al-Qahtani has been going nowhere. Interrogators and staff psychologists are convinced that he is lying: repeating prefabricated cover stories, no matter how implausible, as required by al Qaeda security protocols. He insists, for example, that he traveled to the United States to import used cars and that he was in Afghanistan merely to purchase falcons.
The first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has only just passed. A spike in intelligence has American officials on high alert. On October 8, Bin Laden deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri releases an audio statement threatening new attacks against America and American allies. The commanders of jtf 170 decide they need to act. On October 11, Major General Michael E. Dunlavey sends a memo to U.S. Army Southern Command requesting authorization to use more aggressive interrogation techniques with the detainees. The request gains still greater urgency on the very next day as al Qaeda makes good on its threats, killing over 200 people in multiple bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. Dunlavey’s request will be endorsed by southcom and sent up the line to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
The request and the Department of Defense’s response to it have pride of place in the media-driven mythology of what have come to be known as the “torture memos.” The techniques proposed by jtf 170 include several milder “Category I” and “Category II” techniques, such as yelling at a detainee (Category I), requiring a detainee to stand for a maximum of four hours (Category II), and “forced grooming” (i.e. shaving a detainee’s beard against his will — likewise Category II). All these techniques will be approved. Included among the harshest “Category III” techniques, however, jtf 170 requests authorization to threaten detainees with “painful consequences” if they fail to cooperate. As it so happens, this is precisely the method used by German police inspector Ortwin Ennigkeit a mere ten days earlier to obtain the cooperation of Magnus Gäfgen. Following the advice of Department of Defense general counsel William J. Haynes, the request for authorization of this method is . . . refused.2 0
So two hundred die because we are such pussies. Perfect…thank you John McCain. The gift that keeps giving. He wants us to fight wars, like he fought for the Presidency, as a gentleman…even if it means we lose. Now we have a Marxist assclown, who even before he takes office is redefining how corrupt politicians can be, who won the Presidency of the most powerful nation on earth because McCain wanted to keep his honor. Thanks McCain…Arizona do us a favor and send us someone else!
Can you imagine the coverage this particular line would be getting, if heaven forbid, a Republican would have won this past November and not LightWorker? The press is so darn corrupt they should be embarrassed to venture outside…yea sure ABC News blog has coverage but I bet money that we won’t see any focus on this particular statement on any Network News. This is a very damning statement. Especially considering Obama DID in fact get his wife onto a Board using political pull.
The FBI affidavit said Blagojevich had been told by an adviser "the president-elect can get Rod Blagojevich’s wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect’s pick to the Senate." ABC News: FBI: Illinois Governor Sought To "Sell" Obama’s Senate Seat
I have told my Homeschooled children that I will not teach civics using our government as an example of anything but corruption, since our Government bears no resemblance to that Government that was around when the books were written.
It is a shame and a terrible crime that the first black President is giving so much shame to the office and the bastard isn’t even in office. No one should judge all black politicians by the actions of one but when you are the first black US President you have a responsibility to not be what Obama apparently is…a corrupt bastard.
Come on Sarah…2012
Because when you are 0-1,000,000 ya need to try again. After all just because you have failed the last million times doesn’t mean that this very next time won’t succeed! Definition of insane by Alfred Einstein, Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
President-elect Barack Obama said he’ll make the “single largest new investment” in roads, bridges and public buildings since the Eisenhower Administration to lift the sagging economy and create jobs.
Obama, in his weekly radio speech today, said his plan to create or preserve 2.5 million jobs will also include making public buildings more energy efficient, repairing schools and modernizing health care with electronic medical records.
“We won’t just throw money at the problem,” he said. “We’ll measure progress by the reforms we make and the results we achieve — by the jobs we create, by the energy we save, by whether America is more competitive in the world.” Bloomberg.com: Worldwide 6
So then we go back to the gentleman who alone of the so-called economists correctly predicted our current dilemma Peter Schiff . If you don’t remember him or have never heard of him well:
"Nobody wants to listen to somebody like Peter because they don’t want to hear the message," she says. "When we launched Fox Business, he came on the show in October [2007] and flat out said among a whole panel of people, ‘The Dow is going below 10,000.’ At the time the Dow was around 14,000, and most of the people on the set burst out laughing. Look where we are today."
Of course, all that cold reality can be a bit much—like the time Claman and Schiff were out with their children and Schiff noticed a discarded old RCA television set on the sidewalk.
" ‘Look at this!’" Claman recalls him shouting. " ‘This very well may be the last thing the U.S. has truly manufactured here. This country’s not manufacturing anything here anymore, and that’s why we are going to lose the super-power race.’ And I’m like, ‘Peter, can’t we just play in the park?’"
So naturally because the LightWorker’s goal is not to save the country but to destroy it he proposes exactly the worst thing we could do to recover…spend more money we haven’t earned.
While calling the federal budget deficit he will inherit “enormous,” Obama said economic recovery is more important, “and that means that we can’t worry, short term, about the budget deficit.”
Schiff is extremely underwhelmed by the LightWorker.
Surely the LightWorker 6 can convince those moderate Muslims to allow him to give a speech on top of the ‘Bayt ul Haram’.
But there is a city that, although not a national capital, is for all intents and purposes the capital of all Islam–a place where Obama could credibly speak to all Muslims, Sunni and Shiite, from Morocco to Malaysia to Michigan.
James Taranto discusses Obama’s Muslim speech.
Not only that, but Obama’s very presence–along with that of his secretary of state, chief of staff, the rest of his entourage and the traveling press from all over the world–would demonstrate that Islam is a more tolerant faith than many Westerners, including this columnist, have thought.
Is it really that simple? Can we be serious? Yes, we can. All the new president has to do is give a speech in Mecca. Where Obama Can Go - WSJ.com
No doubt the Muslims will fall all over themselves to accommodate The LightWorker.
Wake me up when the goddamn nightmare is over. We are going broke. Our economy is in shambles and those assholes in the EPA are actually proposing putting a tax on Cow Farts. When the anger in this country finally boils over it will be a very ugly few years. This sort of shit, pardon the pun, has to be proposed by folks who are trying to discredit the idea of government intervention in the economy. It has to be a Karl Rove plot to discredit the EPA.
Farmers so far are turning their noses up at the notion, which is one of several put forward by the Environmental Protection Agency after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that greenhouse gases emitted by belching and flatulence amounts to air pollution.
"This is one of the most ridiculous things the federal government has tried to do," said Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, an outspoken opponent of the proposal.
It would require farms or ranches with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs to pay an annual fee of about $175 for each dairy cow, $87.50 per head of beef cattle and $20 for each hog.
The executive vice president of the Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, Ken Hamilton, estimated the fee would cost owners of a modest-sized cattle ranch $30,000 to $40,000 a year. He said he has talked to a number of livestock owners about the proposals, and "all have said if the fees were carried out, it would bankrupt them."
Sparks said Wednesday he’s worried the fee could be extended to chickens and other farm animals and cause more meat to be imported.
"We’ll let other countries put food on our tables like they are putting gas in our cars. Other countries don’t have the health standards we have," Sparks said.
EPA spokesman Nick Butterfield said the fee was proposed for farms with livestock operations that emit more than 100 tons of carbon emissions in a year and fall under federal Clean Air Act provisions. Proposed fee on smelly cows, hogs angers farmers - Yahoo! News 1
Exactly what use is Washington DC again? Why shouldn’t we be hollering for succession? They are unable to defend us, witness 9/11, they are unable to build roads witness the roads, they are unable to govern the currency, witness the devaluation of our dollar, they are unable to moderate their spending, witness that in the midst of a crisis those shit heads in congress were voting for all sorts of earmarks…why exactly do we need them? The Federalist in me is embarrassed by the incompetence displayed so far and wonders if the states rights folks didn’t have it right all along. We have taken care of the most egregious error of states rights, slavery, now perhaps it is time to turn over the majority of governing to the states. I guarantee if Governor Bobby Jindal proposed taxing Cow Farts one of his constituents would grab him by the collar in one of our local restaurants and check to make sure he wasn’t on drugs.
The lesson? Get rid of the idea that socialism works. It didn’t then, it doesn’t now. And NO being a socialist does not allow you to declare that you are progressive. Why is it that whenever the left uses a word we can be absolutely certain that they have perverted and twisted beyond recognition?
How is it “Progressive” to advocate a system that was described by Plato and tried by the Puritans. It is only the perversion of the Republican party that sees them losing in the arena of ideas. How can one lose by advocating freedom and property ownership against the system, if that disaster promulgated by the Left/Democrats can be called a system, of Government that steals away a man’s freedom and hands it to a Government Bureaucrat?
Here is the Governor of the Plymouth Plantation William Bradford speaking “Truth to Power”.
Private and communal farming (1623)
All this while no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any. So they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery. At length, after much debate of things, the Governor (with the advice of the chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to themselves; in all other thing to go on in the general way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.
The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato’s and other ancients applauded by some of later times; and that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God. For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labor and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense. The strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalized in labors and victuals, clothes etc., with the meaner and younger sort, thought it some indignity and disrespect unto them. And for men’s wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brook it. Upon the point all being to have alike, and all to do alike, they thought themselves in the like condition, and one as good as another; and so, if it did not cut off those relations that God hath set amongst men, yet it did at least much diminish and take off the mutual respects that should be preserved amongst them. And would have been worse if they had been men of another condition. Let none object this is men’s corruption, and nothing to the course itself. I answer, seeing all men have this corruption in them, God in His wisdom saw another course fitter for them. Modern History Sourcebook: William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation
Ramesh fancies himself an intellectual. We need less of him. These folks are so busy staring at their navels that they miss the point.
Rove on Republican Recovery [Ramesh Ponnuru]
I don’t entirely agree with him, particularly about immigration, but he makes an awful lot of good points in his Newsweek piece. I agreed especially with his 7th point (even though, if I had to guess now, I would say that I will probably not be supporting Palin’s primary candidacy, if there is one, in 2011 and 2012.)The Corner on National Review Online
Palin flies right over his head. Sort of surprised he didn’t come out for Obama….perhaps if Obama’s position on Abortion, the only actual conservative position I know Ramesh supports, was different we would be rid of him already. Just as we are ridding ourselves of Frum, Parker, Will, Noonan and the rest of the closet poof balls who love the O.
Inside Higher Education has a great article regarding a Professor who sued his students and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock after being falsely accused of racism. Sounds just like the sort of crazy nonsense that is wrong with Universities these days. Also sounds like the sort of battles that Republicans better get ready to fight considering Obama’s methods, and his allies quick use of racism charges to silence dissent.
Another accusation against him was that — in the same time frame when he had criticized affirmative action — he was insensitive in passing out “a basic grammar worksheet” to the class and telling students to focus more on their writing. There was no accusation that he focused on the black students, only that he raised this issue shortly after he has been critical of affirmative action. On this charge, Peltz noted that faculty members had been urged by the state Bar to focus more on writing issues because some law students were in danger of failing the Bar exam due to poor writing skills. While defending his intent, Peltz pledged in his new memo to never again offer the writing tips “lest I again be maligned for trying to improve student writing.” What You Can’t Win in Court :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, Views and Jobs 0
Read the comments and be shocked to learn just how grades are awarded in the new age.
Affirmative action is racism.
Amazing he that wasn’t fired or perhaps he is tenured. Reverse racism, or affirmative action simply is racism and creates hatred, not fairness. I was fired by the Chairman because I refused to pass a black student who did not attend class or do any work; the Chair wanted him passed for racial quota purposes, so the Chair changed my grade of F to passing, thereby discriminating against all the other students. I didn’t care what race, ethnicity, age, sex, or attitude a student had, only that they were able to learn the material no matter what I had to do to help them to pass standard tests pursuant to obtaining a professional license. What the Chair did was wrong, to the students and to the profession.
As for your own perception, what race do you think I am? Do you assume that I am white?
You’re likely wrong; I am Native American.
Dan, Dr. at Ball State University,
Well I am feeling all warm and fuzzy knowing that grades are just handed out to meet quotas. What we are seeing here is the destruction of nearly 2500 years of experience regarding basic ideas, truth matters, honor matters, actually knowing the material matters. You know having idiot lawyers may not be such a dangerous thing, hell it might be a plus since having idiots abounding in law might move the worship of them down a notch or two, but imagine that same grading method being used with a heart surgeon. Gosh, do you feel a thrill going up your leg! Speaking of thrills running up my leg…
Now we have a Black President who uses the same sort of tactics, hurling racism charges at those who stand in his way, well my gosh it just doesn’t get any better than that eh? Exactly how would the University view a group of students calling themselves the White Law Students Association? Would the University allow them to ruin careers of women studies professors? Dissent in the United States just moved into the hate speech category. If it is wrong to have a White Law Students Law Association why is it right to have a black one? Would Reverend King think all this color running around as victims a good thing?
The question is can any Republican overcome their fear of being branded a racist to fight back? Perhaps we can take a cue from the Queen of Denmark.
The Queen of Denmark said it best 0 “A counterbalance has to be found, and one has to, at times, run the risk of having unflattering labels placed on you. For there are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.”
She was defending her right to stand up to Islam’s attempt to overwhelm Europe. We might take a cue from her as those would debase our civilization by eliminating standards try to destroy our nation in order to steal success. Hint success is not given, nor taken, it is earned. Discuss amongst yourselves.
