As I See it

Ok, so you listen to the News at Six and tune in to some of the political talk shows and even listen to the leading anchors interviewing this expert, and this pundit, and this correspondent expound on candidate Obama.   What does all that information get you?   Either you get re-energized to support the guy, confused over what he proposes because of the flipping, or so damn mad you want to spit and throw something at the TV.

Know your enemy.   Know your friends.  Go directly to his campaign web-site and read some of the things he has said and proposes.  That’s enlightening.  That’s downright scary.  And now, after doing just that, I’m ready to spit.

One of the things I noticed was the lack of the word “Constitution” anywhere, on any page.   I would expect any presidential candidate to cite the mandate that as President he would “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”   But that’s not the way it is. Throughout all his proposals and programs Obama negates the importance of our Constitution by not mentioning it. 

Neither did I see any mention of the constitution on the campaign web-site of John McCain.

Is the constitution not important anymore?

Which programs that are proposed by each violate the constitution?

Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) has introduced The Enumerated Powers Act (EPA) - HR 1359 [You can read the entire bill on our Background page]. EPA would require Congress to reference the specific clause(s) of the U.S. Constitution that grant them the power to enact laws and take other congressional actions.  Downsize DC.

This bill was introduced on 3/06/07 and has been referred to committee, and that’s it, that’s all.    Not even debated.  Sitting in a desk drawer.

Why?  

In this age of living breathing diverse multi-cultural interpretations, the Constitution is ignored by politicians.

That’s what’s happening in Muslim Saudi Arabia.  Throw the Christians out.  That country is deporting 15 Christians for holding a private home worship service according to a report by “persecution.org.” 

“On Friday, April 25, twelve Saudi Arabian police raided a house where 16 Christians were holding a prayer meeting.  The first office to enter the house after breaking down the main gate pointed a pistol at the Christians and ordered them to hand over their resident permits and mobile phones.  The other 11 police followed quickly and started searching the entire house.  They confiscated an electronic drum set, an offering box with 500 Saudi Riyal in it ($130), 20 bibles, and a few Christian books.”

They were detained and later released, thinking their ordeal was over.  However they all received letters shortly and told to leave the country immediately.   I suppose they should feel liberated for keeping their head.

Is this an isolated incident in Muslim countries?   Hardly. 

What do we in the west do with Muslims holding a prayer service in their own private homes?  Nothing, as we don’t care.  No, we bend over to provide them the means to build a mosque.  No foot left unwashed, we provide special foot washing basins in airports.  No child left behind, we provide their children special accommodations in schools.  No pork allowed, we allow them special considerations while working a checkout in grocery stores so that they do not have to touch pork.  And just recently, no Holiday off limits, Tyson Foods negated the Labor Day Holiday for all employees in favor of observing a special Muslim Holiday.

Does anyone see a disconnect here?

Does anyone see that we soft hearted weasels in America are giving away this countries heritage?    At one time it was definitely a Judeo-Christian Nation.   What have we now?   Our various leaders are handing America to the Muslims one consension at a time.  

The elite know it alls in the west have come to worship an ideology, that pie in the sky, that all will be well, that everyone will sing along and get along, hand in hand together, once we reach the ideal numerically balanced diverse multi-cultural society.   

All Muslims have to do is call CAIR and our leaders say — how high?

He told us so, he’s not a bigot.  See the little girl he’s holding.  “I am not a racist,” Clinton said Monday in a testy interview with ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia, in response to a question that wasn’t quite related to that subject. “I’ve never made a racist comment, and I never attacked [Obama] personally.”  More . . .

Don’t you just love politics?  

After the photo op?

The guy on the left is the current American Idol.  The guy on the right with his mouth open was.   Wouldn’t you love to know what the girl over Obama’s shoulder is saying.   The suited man directly behind Mr. Clinton seems ready to take the young girl when Bill is finished. 

When government gets out of the way of researchers, scientists and just average people, then results for new energy alternatives will be forthcoming.   Too many people believe that mandates from the government is what improves our lives.  Many will think that the government has enabled these scientists to discover this new break through.  Many politicians will take credit for the discovery. 

And here is an interesting  timely story that may just be the alternative that will enable America to change some of it’s energy needs to a new technology, thus freeing us all to choose our preference when we decide to switch, if we so desire. 

Two or more choices is always better than just one.

MIT researchers have discovered a way to store solar energy that could make solar power in homes a mainstream energy option and might even make power companies obsolete, at least for residential needs.

Daniel Nocera, a professor of chemistry and energy at MIT, and postdoctoral fellow Matthew Kanan have figured out how to split water into hydrogen and oxygen cheaply and efficiently at room temperature. The process can later be reversed, allowing the recombination of hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell to create carbon-free electricity.

Read More . . .

Now the tricky part.  How will this new technology be made available to consumers?   A group of private investors?  A new Government controlled bureaucracy?   Nationalized power companies?   

Lest we forget, the war against radical Islam is not quite finished, just because we appear to have defeated the Islamic terrorists in Iraq.   The war is continuing here at home, only in a quiet reformation type fashion.   Their desires are still the same.  Only the methods have changed.  It’s a quiet war.

Those methods are continuing by using our own laws, our own courts and our own weaknesses to establish themselves as part and parcel of mainstream America.    Rather than adapting to our ways, they are demanding that we adapt to their ways.  And this is our country.  Judeo-Christians established America first and fought against tyrants to keep it our way, to keep it the land of the free and home of the brave.

This new breed desire to remake America into their own dreamland.  What nerve.  This is the quiet war where not a shot will be fired, but they will win using these methods against us.  Lest we forget what it is all about.

A recent example is the battle for access to the City of Portland swimming pools to accommodate the Somali women by opening the pools for a special after hours swim period with only female life guards, for Muslim women, who cannot wear a swim suit in front of males who are not directly related to them. 

Another is the pressure of the union that was put on Tyson Foods in Tennessee to cancel the National Labor Day Holiday in favor of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Fitr which occurs on October 1st this year.  So American workers in the plant will not be able to take the Labor Day Holiday off. 

Could our leaders and local bureaucrats please have the guts, the courage to let the Muslims know that this is still America, and unlike Europe, we do not want to change our Judeo-Christian beginnings and traditions so that we could be considered “multi-cultural” according to to New World standards.

America became great because people from many different cultures came together under one and only one Constitution and one and only one set of laws that applied to everyone.   

That was diverse groups of people working toward one goal.

This new ideology is forced and contrived, a multi-culturalism by the heavy hand of intimidation, and it is working to destroy us, to establish their laws on equal footing with our laws.   This quiet war gained a footing shortly after 9/11 because some did not want to make them mad at us any more than what they did to us on that dreadful day..  Kiss and make up.

Lest we forget, they say that America is the great satan, and is to be wiped off the face of the earth, from either outside our borders, or from within by harmless women or by companies desiring to appease employees. 

America may have defeated radical Islam in Iraq, but the quiet war here on our shores is being lost.  And not a shot will be fired. 

Obama wants to tax the big oil companies.

Obama wants to tax those “windfall” profits of big oil companies.

Smart idea?

The oil companies will just pass those taxes on down the line to consumers and we’ll end up paying more for everything, from gasoline we drive by, to the food we eat, to the clothes we wear, to the electronics that we love to play with, and the energy we cool and heat our homes with. Consumers pay all taxes. Corporations only funnel the money to the IRS.

The entire economy is based on and dependent on oil. Besides all of the products that are derivatives of oil, transportation brings it to us.

When will we wake up out of our stupidity and hold these clowns accountable? As soon as the American public get over their fascination with celebrities.

It seems that with everyday, with every speech a few new ideas come out of the mouth of Obama, and this is the scary part of the idealist that rose out of nowhere to become someone.

Imagine if each new idea floated before the audience of the day would become law. 

The latest idea was presented to auto workers in Michigan. 

Obama already wants to wean us from our dependence on oil, not our dependence on foreign oil, but oil altogether.   Have you inflated your tires yet?

“He called for $4 billion in guaranteed loans and tax credits to help U.S. automakers retool for more fuel-efficient cars and to develop batteries for plug-in hybrids that get up to 150 m.p.g. The new breed of automobiles would fetch a $7,000 federal tax credit for buyers.”   More . . .

He added that 1 million of these would be ready in six years.  That’s a relief, as he just saved us a year of suffering.    It might take the oil companies drilling offshore and in ANWAR 7 years to get that oil to consumers. 

Drilling offshore is off the table because there is no immediate relief, but his idea today is OK - - it brings relief to Americans quicker.

Just around the corner, schools will be starting soon.  The main issue in most school districts is money.  Every year the cry is for taxpayers to send more money.  Enough money.  But when is enough enough?

“Teachers’ unions are expert at presenting the interests of their members and of public school students as one and the same. Which is why it’s always illuminating to see how the nation’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association, spends its political money.”   So says a WSJ editorial.

“In the 2007-08 fiscal year, not surprisingly, the NEA spent $2.3 million — on top of $1 million spent the previous fiscal year — fighting a school voucher referendum in Utah.”

“The NEA sent the Hawaii State Teachers Association $20,000 to conduct polling on a state constitutional convention. It sent the Massachusetts Teachers Association $60,000 to oppose a state income-tax repeal. And it sent the Florida Education Association $200,000 to oppose property-tax cuts in the Sunshine State.”

The union has too much and the districts have too little.   There’s 3 million that could go back to teachers to help them buy school supplies the district can’t.

Well, whoopee do.  Here we go again.

The City of Portland, OR. is having a problem, an anti-discrimination controversy brought on by a group of Somali women who say their faith will not allow them to wear swimming suits in the presence of men who are not of their immediate family.   So they are petitioning the “Portland Parks and Recreation to accommodate their Muslim faith by allowing an after-hours, women-only swim time at a city pool to be staffed only by female lifeguards.”

When did it become a right of anybody to go for a swim in a public pool?It’s not a right.  Just because the taxpayer is paying to build a swimming pool that is open to the public, it still does not give anybody under their own terms the right to use that pool.   The City of Portland, under the direction of the people of Portland, supposedly, determine when the pool will be open, how the pool will be governed, and under what safety measures, and what rules must be followed by those who use the pool. 

If anyone wants to use the pool then those conditions must be followed. 

The city’s response?

No way. Anti-discrimination employment law won’t allow it, Deputy City Attorney Lory Kraut wrote in an 11-page memo to the parks bureau June 23.

But that’s not the end of it—at least, not yet. The Somali women are pressing the city for another solution.

They’re not alone nationwide. Other public and private institutions are wrestling with how to rework rules that don’t take into account some Muslim women’s values concerning modesty.

Let’s hope that the City of Portland will not cave to those demands.

Enough of this caving in to the demands of Muslims to change our rules.  If they desire to live in America, then adapt.  And that goes for the illegal and legal Hispanic groups too. 

Keep this fact in mind folks, the following information was put into motion by an executive order by President G. H. W. Bush in 1992. Congress did not vote on it. No bills were signed.

Before these two current bills were passed, I suppose there was a disproportionate amount of environmental injustice: that tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes and extreme weather patterns affected the minorities more than any other (specifically white Anglo-Saxon) groups.

HR 1103 Environmental Justice Act of 2007

HR 5132 was sponsored by Hilda Solis (Ca), Barney Frank (MA), Alcee Hastings (FL) and Albert Wynn (MD). All democrats.

The term `environmental justice’ means the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all individuals regardless of race, color, national origin, educational level, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws (including regulations) to ensure that–

(A) minority and low-income populations have access to public information relating to human health and environmental planning, regulations, and enforcement; and

(B) no minority or low-income population shall be exposed to a disproportionate burden of the negative human health and environmental impacts of pollution or other environmental hazards.

What are these people thinking? What are their motives? Well it seems that this term has been around for some time now, since 1991 when the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit held a meeting and adopted 17 principles of Environmental Justice.

1) Environmental Justice “affirms the sacredness of Mother Earth, ecological unity and the interdependence of all species, and the right to be free from ecological destruction.”

It demands, mandates, and “calls for universal protection from nuclear testing, extraction, production and disposal of toxic/hazardous wastes and poisons and nuclear testing that threaten the fundamental right to clean air, land, water, and food.”

It “demands the cessation of the production of all toxins, hazardous wastes, and radioactive materials.”

10) Environmental Justice considers governmental acts of environmental injustice a violation of international law, the Universal Declaration On Human Rights, and the United Nations Convention on Genocide.

15) Environmental Justice opposes military occupation, repression and exploitation of lands, peoples and cultures, and other life forms.

There it is: The chances that the US ever goes back to creating nuclear power plants to help us overcome our addiction to and dependency on foreign oil are slim to nada.

There it is: The US is on the way to subjugating our own laws to that of the UN.

There it is: The US is well on it’s way to a military that would not defend itself.

The EPA has had an Office of Environmental Justice since 1992, created under the first Bush. How naive I am. At first I was thinking that this was a brand new term created to insure that the current oil crisis and the global warming alarmism would insure that these calamities would not hit the minorities the hardest. But this is a full blown campaign already in motion for 15 years. It’ll be very improbable to stop this train.

Under the presidential order of George H W Bush: “Each Federal agency shale make acheiving environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing as apprpriate, disproportionately high and advers human health or environmental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations.” Misspells are theirs.

Wake up folks, the US and that includes every person in this country is under the control of the EPA, their mandates, regulations and policies, and I fear congress does not have the gumption to do anything about it. Bureaucrats calling the shots. Obama will not and McCain is suspect because of his desire to have a “comprehensive” plan dealing with energy. What has happened to constitutional thinking?

The availability of US oil is a problem created by congress and we the people are paying the price for their previous actions and current inactions.

What can we do? Nada. The efforts of Newt Gingrich are commendable, but will have little effect on closed minds. The current crop of republicans do not have the muscle to stop this train wreck.

The possibility of new nuclear power plants is a Congressional what if fear mongering subjugation to the EPA. The subject is closed. And again, we the people are paying the price for their inaction, because of their blind obedience to the environmentalists and people of color.

And don’t expect the media giants to turn and investigate their comrades as the media desires the same as our current leaders in congress. Submit to international bodies in the name of justice.

Sad.