We are still fighting the same issues Ronald Reagan warned us about prior to his presidency: excessive government spending and regulations, taxation, a faltering economy, devalued dollar, high unemployment, approaching inflation, threats from abroad and weak national leadership.
Now we have additional issues in terms of one party control (despite Scott Brown’s election) absent checks and balances, a lack of presidential or congressional leadership, and an increase in secrecy not only in the White House but also in Congress.
When President Carter was in office the OPEC cartel had cut oil production and raised prices, a problem compounded because Carter had closed off exploration for oil and gas in Alaska. Now another Democrat in the White House has intentionally reduced oil production by refusing to let oil companies drill in or around America. Gas prices are rising again moderated only by today’s massive unemployment.
In 1979, Islamic radicals invaded the American Embassy and took sixty-six Americans hostage. Today President Obama’s failed overtures and veiled threats against Iran have been laughed at by the Iranian government. Development of nuclear weapons in Iran continues because of Obama’s lack of leadership: another clueless Jimmy Carter.
There is a growing loss of confidence in the government’s ability to solve problems. President Obama called it a “deficit of trust.” The people do not trust President Obama or his Democratic Party for cause.
America is a great country but it isn’t being run like a great country. President Obama repeatedly apologizes for America and bows before foreign government leaders. I’m sick and tired of my president apologizing for America.
The United States of America is the bastion of Capitalism. Our Liberty and Capitalism paved the way for American Exceptionalism.
What other country has sent its military to distant lands to fight for freedom and asked nothing in return. World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Iraq and Afghanistan are all familiar place names now. America’s Liberty and Capitalism drove the economic engine that allowed the United States to aid the people of each of these countries. Yet, the people of the United States asked nothing in return.
The American people are exceptional. When disasters occur, whether in Malaysia, former Yugoslavia, Mexico or, currently Haiti, the American people become the most generous people on earth. Our government’s foreign aid, while questionable at times, serves a purpose in keeping the free world strong.
The President’s unprecedented attack on banks is a classic example of a socialist or fascist strategy to define an enemy of the State and persecute them. Hitler did it to the Jews. Stalin did it to his enemies and Mao to his opponents. Saddam Hussein did it to the Kurds and Shiites. President Obama is doing it to the banks in the name of collecting TARP tax money.
The problem with this strategy is all the financial firms except AIG, Citi-Bank, General Motors, Chrysler, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has repaid TARP loans. Obama has exempted the last four companies from the tax. Why? Because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Government Sponsored Entities, General Motors and Chrysler are union owned, AIG and CitiBank are owned by the government. President Obama is attacking only the private sector.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill:
Liberals and Progressives want to redistribute wealth to those who did not earn it.
Conservatives want to raise people from poverty through individual effort.
Liberals and Progressives would destroy private interests.
Conservatives would preserve private interests.
Liberals and Progressives seek to kill enterprise.
Conservatives seek to rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege, preference and one party rule absent checks and balances.
Liberals and Progressives attack the pre-eminence of the individual and strip the people of their identity through collectivism.
Conservatives seek to honor the individual.
Liberals and Progressives believe the people exist only to serve the State.
Conservatives believe in the individual’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberals and Progressives represent the danger of tyranny as seen in the attempted take over of the health care industry, as seen in President Obama’s attack on the financial industry and as seen in the complete takeover of the so-called mainstream news media.
They represent a future of national bankruptcy through uncontrolled spending and borrowing, a future of high inflation caused by the massive printing of dollars of decreasing value. Obama’s budget provides the country with a $1.556 trillion deficit in 2010 with another $1.267 trillion deficit in 2011. Over the next five years, the Obama administration forecasts $5.08 trillion in debt, up by 35% more than projected one year ago.
It is imperative that we take back our country at the next election. Never again can Liberals or Progressives be allowed to harm our national security, our financial security and our national family’s security. Liberals and Progressives are fast becoming domestic enemies of the United States.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Progressive or Liberal = Social Darwinism + Eugenics
What is “progressivism?” Hillary Clinton, among many other former liberals, wants to be known as “progressive.” The reason: they are attempting to avoid the tainted political label of ‘liberal.” But the new label of “progressive” has been around for over a century and is just as tainted.
Progressivism is rooted in George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophy of German idealism. Hegel produced a teleological account of history, a school of thought that holds all things are designed for or directed toward a final result or purpose. Karl Marx adopted Hegel’s philosophy then molded it into his scientific interpretation of society and history, a theory in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies.
In the United States, Progressivism was the so-called reform movement that ran from the late 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century, seeking to answer the economic, political, and cultural questions arising from rapid changes brought with the Industrial Revolution and the growth of modern capitalism in America.
Herbert Croly, a progressive leader in the early 1900s, rejected Alexander Hamilton’s argument for institutional checks on a pure national democracy and also rejected Jefferson’s arguments for limited government. Croly, in attempting to transcend the doctrine of individual rights, rejected the natural rights principles of our nation’s founding. Progressives believed the only way to save America's promise was to mobilize its people through a new, more centralized government that could coordinate their efforts and provide new national unity.
Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” natural selection theory was woven into the Progressive movement as a negation of natural rights principles and the notion of a Supreme Being. “This trend continues in full force with the so-called “new Progressives”, who many times pay lip-service to the idea of “God”, but are in the main Darwinian, Nietzschean atheists. Man, they would tell us, would have to fix his own ills and so it would take the best and the brightest (i.e. scientists, enlightened and brilliant political and entertainment figures) to right the ship. An oligarchy of the intelligentsia if you will.”
Many proponents of Darwin’s natural selection also promote the notion of eugenics as applied to social, political and economic areas. Eugenics, simply defined, is improvement of the human gene pool. In the United States, it included Margaret Sanger’s push for birth control and abortion. It included the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment with poor black men. It included the forced sterilization of selected people: prisoners, idiots, imbeciles and rapists. Throughout history, despots and dictators effectively used eugenics: Hitler against the Jews; Stalin against millions of people; Mao’s cultural revolution.; Arabs against Jews, members of lower castes, etc.
Progressives believe in big government, big government programs, and massive spending. Progressive President after Progressive President has sought to fight American individualism by new big government program offensives in the war. Many different public service programs have been introduced, each billed as the final push that would simultaneously meet the national needs and unleash the energies of the American people in national service.
President Theodore Roosevelt campaigned on a Progressive platform in an attempt at a third term. He defeated William Taft, the Republican candidate, but lost to Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate.
President Wilson, who campaigned under the banner “New Freedom,” primary legislative accomplishments included the Underwood Act and the Federal Reserve Act, creating tariff reform and relinquishing Congressional control of the nation’s money to twelve Federal Reserve Banks. In addition, he introduced the income tax to the country. All these programs are centralized, big government programs designed to control the people.
President Roosevelt campaigned on a “New Deal,” which promoted big government programs that failed spectacularly to overcome the Great Depression but did permanently leave the welfare state in America. Our huge, complex modern regulatory bureaucracies are a vestige of the Big Government Progressive Statists.
President Johnson’s War on Poverty and his Great Society are classic progressive programs that also spectacularly failed, just as FDR’s great progressive programs failed. In fact, Henry Morganthau, Treasury Secretary under Franklin Rooselvelt, admitted, “"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong ... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises ... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot [emphasis mine]!"
President Obama’s mega-big government health care program is classic progressive politics, including eugenic policies that allegedly will improve the human gene pool in the United States but, in effect, it is nothing less than massive health care rationing. Obama supported eugenics as a State of Illinois Senator when he voted no on a law to provide medical help for babies who survived botched abortions. He can be labeled callous and unfeeling.
Included in the House health care bill is the creation of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The goal of this Federal Coordinating Council is the implementation of eugenics specifically targeted at Medicare patients. The Federal Council is modeled after England’s version, the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) that approves or rejects treatment. For example, NICE has a rule of thumb that states health expenditures are inappropriate if they involve spending more than $22,000 to save six months of life. Consequently, British cancer patients do not have access to drugs that are available to patients in the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 25,000 British cancer patients die prematurely every year due to these arbitrary restrictions.
Interestingly enough, Betsy McCaughey, former Lt. Governor of New York, read the Obama Stimulus Plan (something Congress failed to do before voting for the bill) and found the health aspects of the bill chilling. The creation of a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, an appointed body with vast powers as described in Tom Daschle’s book, “Critical:What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis,” is the “death panel”described by Governor Sarah Palin.
Ms. McCaughey writes, “. . . The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept ‘hopeless diagnoses’ and ‘forgo experimental treatments,’ and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system . . . Daschle says health-care reform ‘will not be pain free.’ Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them . . .” You can be assured that Daschle’s “rules” will not apply to Daschle when he needs health care.
When people willingly describe themselves as “progressive” you now know what kind of person that is: a person who believes in social Darwinism and eugenics, who is willing to engage in reducing the most vulnerable among the population through health care rationing; a person who makes no distinction between withholding or rationing health care and premeditated murder; and a person who is willing to do so on a massive scale. This is what a so-called progressive is.
Progressivism is rooted in George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophy of German idealism. Hegel produced a teleological account of history, a school of thought that holds all things are designed for or directed toward a final result or purpose. Karl Marx adopted Hegel’s philosophy then molded it into his scientific interpretation of society and history, a theory in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies.
In the United States, Progressivism was the so-called reform movement that ran from the late 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century, seeking to answer the economic, political, and cultural questions arising from rapid changes brought with the Industrial Revolution and the growth of modern capitalism in America.
Herbert Croly, a progressive leader in the early 1900s, rejected Alexander Hamilton’s argument for institutional checks on a pure national democracy and also rejected Jefferson’s arguments for limited government. Croly, in attempting to transcend the doctrine of individual rights, rejected the natural rights principles of our nation’s founding. Progressives believed the only way to save America's promise was to mobilize its people through a new, more centralized government that could coordinate their efforts and provide new national unity.
Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” natural selection theory was woven into the Progressive movement as a negation of natural rights principles and the notion of a Supreme Being. “This trend continues in full force with the so-called “new Progressives”, who many times pay lip-service to the idea of “God”, but are in the main Darwinian, Nietzschean atheists. Man, they would tell us, would have to fix his own ills and so it would take the best and the brightest (i.e. scientists, enlightened and brilliant political and entertainment figures) to right the ship. An oligarchy of the intelligentsia if you will.”
Many proponents of Darwin’s natural selection also promote the notion of eugenics as applied to social, political and economic areas. Eugenics, simply defined, is improvement of the human gene pool. In the United States, it included Margaret Sanger’s push for birth control and abortion. It included the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment with poor black men. It included the forced sterilization of selected people: prisoners, idiots, imbeciles and rapists. Throughout history, despots and dictators effectively used eugenics: Hitler against the Jews; Stalin against millions of people; Mao’s cultural revolution.; Arabs against Jews, members of lower castes, etc.
Progressives believe in big government, big government programs, and massive spending. Progressive President after Progressive President has sought to fight American individualism by new big government program offensives in the war. Many different public service programs have been introduced, each billed as the final push that would simultaneously meet the national needs and unleash the energies of the American people in national service.
President Theodore Roosevelt campaigned on a Progressive platform in an attempt at a third term. He defeated William Taft, the Republican candidate, but lost to Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate.
President Wilson, who campaigned under the banner “New Freedom,” primary legislative accomplishments included the Underwood Act and the Federal Reserve Act, creating tariff reform and relinquishing Congressional control of the nation’s money to twelve Federal Reserve Banks. In addition, he introduced the income tax to the country. All these programs are centralized, big government programs designed to control the people.
President Roosevelt campaigned on a “New Deal,” which promoted big government programs that failed spectacularly to overcome the Great Depression but did permanently leave the welfare state in America. Our huge, complex modern regulatory bureaucracies are a vestige of the Big Government Progressive Statists.
President Johnson’s War on Poverty and his Great Society are classic progressive programs that also spectacularly failed, just as FDR’s great progressive programs failed. In fact, Henry Morganthau, Treasury Secretary under Franklin Rooselvelt, admitted, “"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong ... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises ... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot [emphasis mine]!"
President Obama’s mega-big government health care program is classic progressive politics, including eugenic policies that allegedly will improve the human gene pool in the United States but, in effect, it is nothing less than massive health care rationing. Obama supported eugenics as a State of Illinois Senator when he voted no on a law to provide medical help for babies who survived botched abortions. He can be labeled callous and unfeeling.
Included in the House health care bill is the creation of the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. The goal of this Federal Coordinating Council is the implementation of eugenics specifically targeted at Medicare patients. The Federal Council is modeled after England’s version, the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) that approves or rejects treatment. For example, NICE has a rule of thumb that states health expenditures are inappropriate if they involve spending more than $22,000 to save six months of life. Consequently, British cancer patients do not have access to drugs that are available to patients in the United States. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 25,000 British cancer patients die prematurely every year due to these arbitrary restrictions.
Interestingly enough, Betsy McCaughey, former Lt. Governor of New York, read the Obama Stimulus Plan (something Congress failed to do before voting for the bill) and found the health aspects of the bill chilling. The creation of a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, an appointed body with vast powers as described in Tom Daschle’s book, “Critical:What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis,” is the “death panel”described by Governor Sarah Palin.
Ms. McCaughey writes, “. . . The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept ‘hopeless diagnoses’ and ‘forgo experimental treatments,’ and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system . . . Daschle says health-care reform ‘will not be pain free.’ Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them . . .” You can be assured that Daschle’s “rules” will not apply to Daschle when he needs health care.
When people willingly describe themselves as “progressive” you now know what kind of person that is: a person who believes in social Darwinism and eugenics, who is willing to engage in reducing the most vulnerable among the population through health care rationing; a person who makes no distinction between withholding or rationing health care and premeditated murder; and a person who is willing to do so on a massive scale. This is what a so-called progressive is.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Dear President Obama . . .
December 27, 2009
Barack H. Obama
President of the United States
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama:
The Declaration of Independence clearly states, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed…”
The history of the Obama administration and 111th Congress is one of stark partisan politics, total lack of transparency, back room political deals giving some states illegal tax breaks over other states, a quadrupling of our annual deficit and a $12 trillion dollar debt all in the first year of your administration. You claim to have inherited a bad economy; on the contrary, you, as a Senator, and your fellow Democrats helped create a bad economy.
The legacy of the Democrat health care bill reeks with the stench of bribery and corruption, with votes purchased with Medicaid cost buy-offs. Included in the bill is a reduction of physician payments by 21.5% to lower the total cost of the bill, yet in a separate bill Senate Democrats restored physician reimbursements: absolute dishonesty on the part of Democrats.
In addition, numerous Democrats in Congress have engaged in criminal behavior that has been aided and abetted by incompetent and dishonest ethics committees controlled by the Democratic leadership.
Your powers to govern are derived from “the Consent of the Governed.” I withdraw my consent to be governed by such a corrupt administration and Congress.
Sincerely,
Barack H. Obama
President of the United States
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama:
The Declaration of Independence clearly states, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed…”
The history of the Obama administration and 111th Congress is one of stark partisan politics, total lack of transparency, back room political deals giving some states illegal tax breaks over other states, a quadrupling of our annual deficit and a $12 trillion dollar debt all in the first year of your administration. You claim to have inherited a bad economy; on the contrary, you, as a Senator, and your fellow Democrats helped create a bad economy.
The legacy of the Democrat health care bill reeks with the stench of bribery and corruption, with votes purchased with Medicaid cost buy-offs. Included in the bill is a reduction of physician payments by 21.5% to lower the total cost of the bill, yet in a separate bill Senate Democrats restored physician reimbursements: absolute dishonesty on the part of Democrats.
In addition, numerous Democrats in Congress have engaged in criminal behavior that has been aided and abetted by incompetent and dishonest ethics committees controlled by the Democratic leadership.
Your powers to govern are derived from “the Consent of the Governed.” I withdraw my consent to be governed by such a corrupt administration and Congress.
Sincerely,
/s/ Richard D. Brinkley
c: Senator Jon Kyl
Senator John McCain
Senator Harry Reid
Representative Nancy Pelosi
Representative Gabrielle Giffords
c: Senator Jon Kyl
Senator John McCain
Senator Harry Reid
Representative Nancy Pelosi
Representative Gabrielle Giffords
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Congressional Culture of Corruption Continues 25 – Max Baucus’ Nomination Fails to Pass Proverbial Sniff Test
Max Baucus came under intense scrutiny after news broke that he had nominated his girlfriend and state director, Melodee Hanes, for the $149,000-a-year job as Montana's U.S. attorney earlier this year, while keeping their relationship secret. Hanes in March withdrew as a candidate. That occurred only after a Missoulian reporter and two editors asked some hard questions about whether Baucus and Hanes were having a relationship and whether he had recommended her for the job.She later withdrew her name, citing “other opportunities.”
Baucas not only kept his romantic relationship hidden during his paraour’s nomination but also he claimed objectivity by nominating Melodee Hanes along with two others for the U.S. Attorney post. Baucas also failed to inform his fellow Montana Senator Jon Testor, who interviewed all three nominees.
Ethically, Max Baucas’ nomination of his girl friend failed the proverbial sniff test. In addition, in participating in this ruse, his girl fried, Melodee Hanes, an attorney, also participated in an unethical act.
The citizens of Montana are fortunate to not have Melodee Hanes as their U.S. Attorney. Now, they need to remove Max Baucas from office.
Baucas not only kept his romantic relationship hidden during his paraour’s nomination but also he claimed objectivity by nominating Melodee Hanes along with two others for the U.S. Attorney post. Baucas also failed to inform his fellow Montana Senator Jon Testor, who interviewed all three nominees.
Ethically, Max Baucas’ nomination of his girl friend failed the proverbial sniff test. In addition, in participating in this ruse, his girl fried, Melodee Hanes, an attorney, also participated in an unethical act.
The citizens of Montana are fortunate to not have Melodee Hanes as their U.S. Attorney. Now, they need to remove Max Baucas from office.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Day Climate Science Died
Dr. Roy Spencer and other leading climate scientists (“‘Cap and Trade’ or ‘Cap and Tax,’” American Commentaries, 6/28/09) must feel vindicated at the news revealing that a group of scientists in England and America conspired to manufacture “global warming” as a world wide menace. Unfortunately for the “good” climate scientists, climate science died at East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit.
It is now known, thanks to an unidentified whistle blower, that thousands of emails and documents, now posted online, support the fact that radical left climate researchers have been tampering scientific evidence to show a non-existent trend in global warming. The evidence of the global warming scam has been in the hands of the so-called main stream media for over a month but they refused to report it, thus contributing to a cover-up of what can be described as a crime against humanity.
In the absence of the so-called main stream media, bloggers and climate change skeptics analyzed the data and found convincing evidence that Climate Research Unit scientists manipulated data to not only falsify but also outright counterfeit data to support global warming. These same scientists cooperatively worked to hide their crimes from external auditors and deleted information to avoid freedom of information requests (a violation of the law). They also conspired to keep contrary opinions from being published in respected journals and United Nations reports, while denying the legitimacy of skeptics because they were not published in these same journals and reports.
Who are these so-called radical left scientists? Doctor Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit, who has been forced to step down from his position until the completion of an independent review. Doctors Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes of Pennsylvania State University, who authored the fabricated “hockey stick” graph that falsely abolished the medieval warm period. Keith Briffa, another Hockey-Team leader, whose temperature graphs, derived from tree ring data from Yamal, Russia, were cited by the IPCC as supporting evidence of Mann-Bradley-Hhughes assertion of unprecedented 20th-century warming.
“The whistleblower’s data file reveals that there is very close collusion indeed between key figures in the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and in both NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. Members of all of these entities in the scientific establishment are also members of the Team. They co-ordinate their results, and they co-ordinate how they present their results, and they co-ordinate how, between them, they control or seek to control – to a remarkable extent – the entire process of the UN’s climate panel, as well as the process of publication of learned papers in scientific journals, and even the appointment of reviewers and editors.”
It is clear that those radical left community has perpetrated a political fraud on humanity in the name of science. As a result, climate science is dead as is ‘global warming.” Not only the corrupt scientists involved but also those like Al Gore and other dishonest politicians pushing a radical left change in society based on fabricated data for the sole purpose of dictatorial political control have been discredited.
The people in the East Anglia Climate Research Unit profited in the amount of $20 million in research grants. Al Gore has made millions from his fraudulent propaganda film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The so-called “Cap and Trade” bill passed by the House would have cost Americans hundreds of millions of dollars in new taxes and increased energy prices. The dishonesty of the radical left is palpable. Even Al Gore has backed out of a speaking engagement in Copenhagen. Why? He can’t stand being questioned about the global warming scam.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s cynical Endangerment Finding in April that green house gas emissions qualify as an air pollutant and this false finding is the basis for a draconian increase in regulations and regulatory bureaucracies is based on a so-called “precautionary approach.” Let’s remember that “the defining characteristic of a green house gas is that it is relatively transparent to visible light from the sun but can absorb portions of thermal radiation . . . That said, the main green house substances in the earth’s atmosphere are water vapor and high clouds.” It’s apparent that the EPA’s conclusion is not only “precautionary,” it doesn’t even come close to being called science.
CO2 emissions are not pollutants, they are plant food. Plants take in CO2 and emit oxygen. This is another balancing act brought to us by nature. We need the plants to keep taking in CO2 emissions so we can have more oxygen. Wind and rain circle the globe to cool hot spots. We don’t need radical left bureaucrats, scientists and ex-politicians to take away our liberty through the fraudulent science of global warming or climate change.
The day that global warming was exposed as fraudulent is the day climate science died.
It is now known, thanks to an unidentified whistle blower, that thousands of emails and documents, now posted online, support the fact that radical left climate researchers have been tampering scientific evidence to show a non-existent trend in global warming. The evidence of the global warming scam has been in the hands of the so-called main stream media for over a month but they refused to report it, thus contributing to a cover-up of what can be described as a crime against humanity.
In the absence of the so-called main stream media, bloggers and climate change skeptics analyzed the data and found convincing evidence that Climate Research Unit scientists manipulated data to not only falsify but also outright counterfeit data to support global warming. These same scientists cooperatively worked to hide their crimes from external auditors and deleted information to avoid freedom of information requests (a violation of the law). They also conspired to keep contrary opinions from being published in respected journals and United Nations reports, while denying the legitimacy of skeptics because they were not published in these same journals and reports.
Who are these so-called radical left scientists? Doctor Phil Jones of the Climate Research Unit, who has been forced to step down from his position until the completion of an independent review. Doctors Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes of Pennsylvania State University, who authored the fabricated “hockey stick” graph that falsely abolished the medieval warm period. Keith Briffa, another Hockey-Team leader, whose temperature graphs, derived from tree ring data from Yamal, Russia, were cited by the IPCC as supporting evidence of Mann-Bradley-Hhughes assertion of unprecedented 20th-century warming.
“The whistleblower’s data file reveals that there is very close collusion indeed between key figures in the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia and in both NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. Members of all of these entities in the scientific establishment are also members of the Team. They co-ordinate their results, and they co-ordinate how they present their results, and they co-ordinate how, between them, they control or seek to control – to a remarkable extent – the entire process of the UN’s climate panel, as well as the process of publication of learned papers in scientific journals, and even the appointment of reviewers and editors.”
It is clear that those radical left community has perpetrated a political fraud on humanity in the name of science. As a result, climate science is dead as is ‘global warming.” Not only the corrupt scientists involved but also those like Al Gore and other dishonest politicians pushing a radical left change in society based on fabricated data for the sole purpose of dictatorial political control have been discredited.
The people in the East Anglia Climate Research Unit profited in the amount of $20 million in research grants. Al Gore has made millions from his fraudulent propaganda film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” The so-called “Cap and Trade” bill passed by the House would have cost Americans hundreds of millions of dollars in new taxes and increased energy prices. The dishonesty of the radical left is palpable. Even Al Gore has backed out of a speaking engagement in Copenhagen. Why? He can’t stand being questioned about the global warming scam.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s cynical Endangerment Finding in April that green house gas emissions qualify as an air pollutant and this false finding is the basis for a draconian increase in regulations and regulatory bureaucracies is based on a so-called “precautionary approach.” Let’s remember that “the defining characteristic of a green house gas is that it is relatively transparent to visible light from the sun but can absorb portions of thermal radiation . . . That said, the main green house substances in the earth’s atmosphere are water vapor and high clouds.” It’s apparent that the EPA’s conclusion is not only “precautionary,” it doesn’t even come close to being called science.
CO2 emissions are not pollutants, they are plant food. Plants take in CO2 and emit oxygen. This is another balancing act brought to us by nature. We need the plants to keep taking in CO2 emissions so we can have more oxygen. Wind and rain circle the globe to cool hot spots. We don’t need radical left bureaucrats, scientists and ex-politicians to take away our liberty through the fraudulent science of global warming or climate change.
The day that global warming was exposed as fraudulent is the day climate science died.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Mistakes of the Great Depression Repeated by Radical Left in Government
The unemployment rate dropped by two tenths of one percent and President Obama claimed victory. This shows just how clueless he is when it concerns his understanding of basic economics. Add to the mix that 300,000 people just stopped looking for work and the two tenths of one per cent drop becomes a rounding error.
A broader measure of employment, which includes people who are working part time when they want full-time jobs and those who've stopped looking for jobs but want to work, shows unemployment or underutilization over 17 percent.
In June of this year, on Meet the Press, that great economist slow Joe Biden admitted that Obama’s stimulus plan was a failure. Biden further admitted that the administration had guessed wrong. Guessed wrong? This was the stimulus package to keep unemployment below 8 percent. This was the stimulus plan that would “save,” a statistic that cannot be measured, or create 3.5 million jobs. Twelve months later, four million people are unemployed with three million of those due to the failure of Obama’s so-called stimulus.
Now even Democrats on Capitol Hill are showing increasing anxiety as voters are angry over the lack of jobs. Obama is now holding seminars on how to create jobs! Obama has never had to meet a payroll. He has not created a job. In fact, the only real job he held was as a community activist, which still begs the question.
I have had to meet payrolls. I have created jobs. I’ve worked in small business to large corporations. The reason why jobs are not being created is due to the uncertainty about the economy in general and the never ending tax increases in particular. No responsible business person is going to start hiring when the economy is being changed from a capitalist to a socialist base with the attendant transfer of wealth from those who create jobs to those who parasitically suck the life blood of the country without providing added value to society.
Take the health care bills in Congress. The Senate bill alone, if passed, will cost $2.5 trillion over ten years, with most of the cost borne by the top 50 percent of income earners. For those making $250,000 or more, they can look forward to tax increases over the next ten years of $338 billion (expiration of the Bush tax cuts), $179 billion (elimination of itemized deductions), and $118 billion (capital gains tax hike). And, of course, there is a special surcharge tax in the health bills attacking those who make more than $250,000. This totals over $3.1 trillion over ten years.
Businesses also face draconian tax increases that will destroy jobs faster the Obama’s so-called stimulus bill. Business taxes total $353 billion over ten years. Taken together, the Democrats are imposing over $3.4 trillion in new taxes over the next ten years, all to be paid by the top 50% of income earners. Why would any sane person believe that now is the time to create jobs? Why would any sane person want to spend more of personal funds instead of hunkering down and protecting his or her family?
This is the state of the economy Obama has manufactured for all Americans. Obama and Timothy Geitner, Treasury Secretary, repeatedly say they inherited a bad economy. Not true. Obama helped create a bad economy as Senator. In fact, Democrats, who controlled Congress in President Bush’s last two years, when the financial meltdown occurred, can rightfully be assigned blame (“Congressional Culture of Corruption Continues 7 – Democrats behind the Mortgage Meltdown,” American Commentaries, 9/26/08).
Henry Morganthau, Treasury Secretary under Franklin Rooselvelt, admitted, “"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong ... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises ... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot [emphasis mine]!"
As Andrew B. Wilson wrote in his Wall Street Journal article, “As the root cause of a great deal of mismanagement and inefficiency, government was responsible for a lost decade of economic growth.” What brought the United States out of the Great Depression was World War II.
So-called radical left politicians whose recipe for recovery today is a repeat of the New Deal should remember that America's biggest industrial collapse occurred in 1937, eight years after the 1929 stock market crash and nearly five years into the New Deal. In 1939, after a decade of frantic federal spending -- President Herbert Hoover increased it more than 50 percent between 1929 and the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt -- unemployment was 17.2 percent.
Furthermore, Hoover's 1932 increase in the top income tax rate, from 25 percent to 63 percent, was unhelpful. And FDR's hyperkinetic New Deal created uncertainties that paralyzed private-sector decision making. Does this sound familiar? Barack Obama’s failed stimulus bill along with a health care takeover of 20 per cent of the economy will not improve the economy. It will continue to destroy jobs. As the economy progressively gets worse, the true definition of “progressive”, Obama will call for even larger takeovers of the economy.
We have our job cut out for us next year.
A broader measure of employment, which includes people who are working part time when they want full-time jobs and those who've stopped looking for jobs but want to work, shows unemployment or underutilization over 17 percent.
In June of this year, on Meet the Press, that great economist slow Joe Biden admitted that Obama’s stimulus plan was a failure. Biden further admitted that the administration had guessed wrong. Guessed wrong? This was the stimulus package to keep unemployment below 8 percent. This was the stimulus plan that would “save,” a statistic that cannot be measured, or create 3.5 million jobs. Twelve months later, four million people are unemployed with three million of those due to the failure of Obama’s so-called stimulus.
Now even Democrats on Capitol Hill are showing increasing anxiety as voters are angry over the lack of jobs. Obama is now holding seminars on how to create jobs! Obama has never had to meet a payroll. He has not created a job. In fact, the only real job he held was as a community activist, which still begs the question.
I have had to meet payrolls. I have created jobs. I’ve worked in small business to large corporations. The reason why jobs are not being created is due to the uncertainty about the economy in general and the never ending tax increases in particular. No responsible business person is going to start hiring when the economy is being changed from a capitalist to a socialist base with the attendant transfer of wealth from those who create jobs to those who parasitically suck the life blood of the country without providing added value to society.
Take the health care bills in Congress. The Senate bill alone, if passed, will cost $2.5 trillion over ten years, with most of the cost borne by the top 50 percent of income earners. For those making $250,000 or more, they can look forward to tax increases over the next ten years of $338 billion (expiration of the Bush tax cuts), $179 billion (elimination of itemized deductions), and $118 billion (capital gains tax hike). And, of course, there is a special surcharge tax in the health bills attacking those who make more than $250,000. This totals over $3.1 trillion over ten years.
Businesses also face draconian tax increases that will destroy jobs faster the Obama’s so-called stimulus bill. Business taxes total $353 billion over ten years. Taken together, the Democrats are imposing over $3.4 trillion in new taxes over the next ten years, all to be paid by the top 50% of income earners. Why would any sane person believe that now is the time to create jobs? Why would any sane person want to spend more of personal funds instead of hunkering down and protecting his or her family?
This is the state of the economy Obama has manufactured for all Americans. Obama and Timothy Geitner, Treasury Secretary, repeatedly say they inherited a bad economy. Not true. Obama helped create a bad economy as Senator. In fact, Democrats, who controlled Congress in President Bush’s last two years, when the financial meltdown occurred, can rightfully be assigned blame (“Congressional Culture of Corruption Continues 7 – Democrats behind the Mortgage Meltdown,” American Commentaries, 9/26/08).
Henry Morganthau, Treasury Secretary under Franklin Rooselvelt, admitted, “"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong ... somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises ... I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started ... And an enormous debt to boot [emphasis mine]!"
As Andrew B. Wilson wrote in his Wall Street Journal article, “As the root cause of a great deal of mismanagement and inefficiency, government was responsible for a lost decade of economic growth.” What brought the United States out of the Great Depression was World War II.
So-called radical left politicians whose recipe for recovery today is a repeat of the New Deal should remember that America's biggest industrial collapse occurred in 1937, eight years after the 1929 stock market crash and nearly five years into the New Deal. In 1939, after a decade of frantic federal spending -- President Herbert Hoover increased it more than 50 percent between 1929 and the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt -- unemployment was 17.2 percent.
Furthermore, Hoover's 1932 increase in the top income tax rate, from 25 percent to 63 percent, was unhelpful. And FDR's hyperkinetic New Deal created uncertainties that paralyzed private-sector decision making. Does this sound familiar? Barack Obama’s failed stimulus bill along with a health care takeover of 20 per cent of the economy will not improve the economy. It will continue to destroy jobs. As the economy progressively gets worse, the true definition of “progressive”, Obama will call for even larger takeovers of the economy.
We have our job cut out for us next year.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Congressional Culture of Corruption Continues 24 – Congressman Mollohan’s Mysterious Wealth
In 2000, Congressman Mollohan, D-WV, owned assets of less than $500,000 generating income of approximately $80,000. In 2008, Mollohan owned assets ranging from $7 million to $29 million with liabilities totaling $2 million to over $7 million. In 2006, Mollohan was forced to file two dozen corrections to his past six financial disclosure documents. Ninety-five per cent of Mollohan’s assets are in real estate. Congressman Mollohan was able to increase his assets by a factor of 14 to 58 over his 2000 asset value on an annual salary of about $174,000.
CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) lists Mollohan as one of Congress’ fifteen most corrupt members. CREW’s website documents:
“Over the past ten plus years, Rep. Mollohan has earmarked $369 million in federal grants to his district for 254 separate programs. Between 1997 and 2006, $250 million of that total was directed to five nonprofit organizations that were created by Rep. Mollohan and staffed by his friends. During the same period, top-paid employees, board members and contractors of these organizations gave at least $397,122 to Rep. Mollohan’s campaign and political action committees. . . If Rep. Mollohan accepted campaign donations in direct exchange for earmarking federal funds to the nonprofits run by these donors he may have committed bribery and honest services fraud in violation [of] House rules prohibiting dispensing special favors and engaging in conduct that does not reflect creditably on the House.”
Congressman Mollohan has been chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that controls the $65 billion budget of the Justice Department. . . at the same time he has been under investigation by the Justice Department. This is clearly a conflict of interest. The Congressman should have stepped down and Nancy Pelosi failure to remove Mollohan is clear a breach of ethics on her part. Interestingly, Pelosi urged Mollohan to give up his seat on the House ethics committee. He did relinquish his seat.
CREW documentation also shows that ethics staff members were asked by the Justice Department to not move forward on the Mollohan inquiry “at this time,” an indication that the Justice department has an ongoing criminal investigation regarding Congressman Alan Mollohan.
CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) lists Mollohan as one of Congress’ fifteen most corrupt members. CREW’s website documents:
“Over the past ten plus years, Rep. Mollohan has earmarked $369 million in federal grants to his district for 254 separate programs. Between 1997 and 2006, $250 million of that total was directed to five nonprofit organizations that were created by Rep. Mollohan and staffed by his friends. During the same period, top-paid employees, board members and contractors of these organizations gave at least $397,122 to Rep. Mollohan’s campaign and political action committees. . . If Rep. Mollohan accepted campaign donations in direct exchange for earmarking federal funds to the nonprofits run by these donors he may have committed bribery and honest services fraud in violation [of] House rules prohibiting dispensing special favors and engaging in conduct that does not reflect creditably on the House.”
Congressman Mollohan has been chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that controls the $65 billion budget of the Justice Department. . . at the same time he has been under investigation by the Justice Department. This is clearly a conflict of interest. The Congressman should have stepped down and Nancy Pelosi failure to remove Mollohan is clear a breach of ethics on her part. Interestingly, Pelosi urged Mollohan to give up his seat on the House ethics committee. He did relinquish his seat.
CREW documentation also shows that ethics staff members were asked by the Justice Department to not move forward on the Mollohan inquiry “at this time,” an indication that the Justice department has an ongoing criminal investigation regarding Congressman Alan Mollohan.
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