Archive for February, 2008

Feb 29 2008

Hillary’s "ideas" never stop spending.

Published by Arnie under Congress and foolishness, Welfare

The following spending proposals have come from Hillary Rodham Clinton.

 

  • $50 billion Strategic Energy Fund
  • $1.75 Billion A Year In State Grants For Paid Family Leave And Child Care Programs
  • $8 Billion A Year College Affordability Program
  • $110 Billion Per Year Health Care Plan
  • $25 Billion Per Year for 401(k) For All Americans
  • $5,000 To Each Of The 4 Million Babies Born In The U.S. Each Year
  • $1.5 Billion Per Year For Public Transit
  • $10 billion over 10 years to redesign and reconstruct ailing bridges
  • $1 Billion For At-Risk Mortgage Borrowers
  • $10 Billion For Education In Developing Countries Over 5 Years
  • $300 Million For “Second Chance Education.”
  • $36 Million For School Phys-Ed Programs
  • $5 Billion The First Year for Universal Pre-K
  • $378 Million for National Science Foundation Fellowships
  • 2.8 Billion Per Year for the National Institute of Health
  • $500 Million Per Year for The National Cancer Institute

Read more of the details . . .

 

Got the picture? 

 

Multiply all this by four years as Chief Executive and the total comes to a paltry 3/4 trillion dollars.  

 

But wait, there’s more.   The campaign is not over yet. 

 

For the children of America there is the family leave and child care programs, the college affordability program, universal health care, a gift of 5 grand to each baby born, second change education, school phys-Ed programs, and universal pre-K. 

So, a young couple just starting out would get 5 grand for each baby, be able to drop the kids at child care and then pre-k education along with phys-ed skill building and get a second chance to do it over, be covered for health issues while the parents take family leaves, and then finally drop them off for an affordable college degree.  

 

What a deal.

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Feb 29 2008

Gas prices going up, so tax the oil companies.

The solution to the escalating prices of oil according to the democrats is to tax the oil companies some more.   The price of oil went over the $100 barrel price this week ($103 yesterday) which means the price of gasoline is going up, up and up and some are predicting gas prices may hit $4 gallon.  We’re paying $2.99 a gallon here in Tulsa, which was the former oil capitol of the world, but now the oil capitol of the world seems to be in Dubai.   We’re dependent of foreign oil.

Oil is in short supply, so ban the drilling for new oil.  America is dependent on foreign oil, so according to liberals , the solution is to prevent American companies from building additional refineries.  Americans desire the comfortable vehicles to drive like those fully equipped safer SUV’s, so force American auto makers to produce more of the un safe hybrid cars.  Americans would rather pay extra for the safety features of the larger vehicles, rather than economize and go for the smaller hybrid cars.

What solutions are being considered by our politicians?

Specter: U.S. should consider windfall oil tax

“The government should consider a tax on oil companies if they make excessive profits amid rising gasoline prices, a leading Republican senator said Sunday.”

 

Dems aim to rescind oil company tax breaks

“With gas prices threatening to climb past $4 per gallon later this year, congressional Democrats are reviving a bill to rescind tax breaks for big oil companies as part of their retooled message of economic populism. Democrats are hoping that the pain at the pump will finally push the measure across the finish line in the Senate, where it fell one “heartbreaking” vote short last December as part of the larger energy package.”

House Passes Renewable Energy Credits

“The House on Wednesday approved a bill to extend more than $17 billion in tax credits and other incentives to encourage the production of energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources, and to promote energy conservation. The bill would be financed by ending tax incentives for oil and natural gas producers.”

Do you think these politicians really care about the price you and I pay at the pump? 

Does anyone out there really care about us, the average American all across America, who are working their buns off to make ends meet?   Tax the oil companies some more, they propose?  Come on now, any economics 101 student knows that corporations like Exxon and every other company doing business in America, hire a boat load of tax accountants to fill out tax forms and then send in the consumers money to the IRS.   You and I pay those taxes when we buy their product or service at higher prices to cover their tax burden.

Excess profits?  Ok, what is excessive?  25% on the dollar invested?  15% on sales?  10% above last years figure?  A figure has to be established somewhere.  Do the shareholders thinks it’s excessive?

“Corporate profits receive a lot of media attention, but what receives considerably less attention are the corporate taxes paid on corporate profits. Do a Google search for “Exxon profits” and you’ll get about 8,000 hits. Now try “Exxon taxes” and you’ll get a little more than 300 hits. That’s a ratio of about 33 to 1.”

Exxon’s tax bill was $30 billion, up from 28 billion last year. 

Are those taxes excessive?   Is 41% of your taxable income an excessive tax level?  

Let’s put the Exxon profits in perspective.

According to IRS data for 2004, the most recent year available:

Total number of tax returns: 130 million

Number of Tax Returns for the Bottom 50%: 65 million

Adjusted Gross Income for the Bottom 50%: $922 billion

Total Income Tax Paid by the Bottom 50%: $27.4 billion

Conclusion: In other words, just one corporation (Exxon Mobil) pays as much in taxes ($27 billion) annually as the entire bottom 50% of individual taxpayers, which is 65,000,000 people! Further, the tax rate for the bottom 50% is only 3% of adjusted gross income ($27.4 billion / $922 billion), and the tax rate for Exxon was 41% in 2006 ($67.4 billion in taxable income, $27.9 billion in taxes).

Those figures are too confusing to comprehend for your average economically illiterate congressperson,   The meanings got lost on the way to find a microphone in front of CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, to spout off about $40.6 billion in profits the evil oil companies are making, while the rest of us have to cut back on our driving.   The sad part of all this is that our media does not call them on their hypocritical double speak.

 

Congress could rescind the federal taxes on a gallon of gasoline. 

 

Or congress could remove restrictions and let our oil companies drill and build.

 

Or congress could encourage American energy companies to build new nuclear power plants and remove the restrictions and fear mongering about nuclear power plants having a meltdown.  Read the current edition of IMPRIMIS: “The Case for Terrestrial (a.k.a. Nuclear) Energy”

There have been a host of debates this year between the Democratic and Republican candidates for president. Many of these candidates believe that among our top priorities is to address global warming by reducing carbon emissions. All or most seem to agree that decreasing America’s energy dependence is another. Yet few if any of the candidates have mentioned that nuclear energy—or, as I prefer, terrestrial energy—could serve both these ends.

 

That’s As I See it.

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Feb 27 2008

Barack ******* Obama.

If we cannot use Obama’s middle name of Hussein, then what shall the America people politely call Barack Hussein Obama?   That is the name given to him at birth 47 years ago when his father named him Barack Hussein Obama, but someone has been offended by the name of Hussein, and by using his rightful middle name of Hussein might just cause ring-a-dings to go nuts connecting Barack Hussein Obama with that other Hussein. 

Then how about the people who have misspelled Barack Hussein Obama’s last name of Obama, thinking it could be Osama and that could be offensive also, as we do not want to connect Obama with Osama knowing how they rhyme so nicely, but yet be offensive and inflammatory, or something. 

So Barack Cursed Cuss it is.

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Feb 27 2008

Now we must worry about the demise of the Sun.

Published by Arnie under Environmental

“The future looks bright for the Earth – but not in the way we’d hoped. The slim chance our planet will survive when the Sun begins its death throes has been ruled out.”

“In a few billion years, the Sun will fuse the last of its hydrogen into helium, turn into a red giant and expand to 250 times its current size. At first, the Sun’s loss of mass will loosen its gravitational pull on Earth, which will allow the planet to migrate to a wider orbit about 7.6 billion years from now.”

So now we must worry about the Sun surviving . . . . er . . ah . . . global warming?

“There is one last hope for anybody still living on Earth, the researchers say. In the past, some have suggested that Earth’s orbit could be tweaked by arranging the fly-by of a nearby asteroid to tug at it. This method could potentially maintain Earth’s speed enough to keep it in a widening orbit, they say.”   newScientist.com

Now wait just a moment here. 

That’s a really very very long time away.   7.6 billion years from now.   And these scientists are talking about mankind not surviving all of these natural transitions of the sun, the solar system, the earth and also a corrupt congress in Washington DC not surviving, along with the United Nations and Al Gore, and the New Scientist online magazine seeing it’s demise too.  Oh my.

Have these ’scientists’ forgotten about evolution?   Certainly over a few billion years the homo sapien would start on a new track developing new skin coverings, new ways to breathe, see, and fly, because of the “survival of the fittest” theories of microbiological mutations etc.   People as we are now would very slowly over the billions of years develop new bodily systems to deal with those transitions.   Right?

So, therefore, there is nothing to worry about.  

So therefore, let the fear monger scientists know that everything will be Ok for the future “beings” inhabiting the earth and solar system etc. and people like us bipedal primates will only be wondered about in the future picture books. 

Scientists . . . yea . . . . . sure thing.

 

Meanwhile some elementary school kids will be returning home crying out loud: “Mommy, mommy, the sun is getting bigger and bigger and we are all going to burn up.”

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Feb 27 2008

The Global Poverty Act plus “One.”

Poverty has been a political issue since, well, probably since the human race expanded beyond just huts and caves into centralized communities sharing some common territory and common enemies that had to be protected and maintained for the benefit of all. There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that the poor will always be among us. But why? Why should there be a group of people that are scrambling around for food for the family. That is one of the most talked about characteristics of poor, right? Even in good ole wealthy prosperous educated America, the poor are said to be starving.

Yea, right!

In some areas of Africa, that may be true. In some other areas of the world, that may be true. But not here. Not in America.

Our government defines what qualifies a person within these states to be classified as falling into the poverty level, but, are there large quantities of people in America who continually have to search the dumpsters for food? No, not in America. The food lines of the 20’s are just a picture from the past. The only food lines you’ll see now are at the charities like the Salvation Army. And food lines at all-you-can-eat buffets. There is no excuse for being hungry in America. We’ve got volunteers serving ‘meals on wheels’ to bring food to those who cannot get out, and you’ll always find some who miss a meal here and there and cry out “I’m hungry” like a four year old who missed his mid-morning cookies and milk But chronic hunger in America? Those who are suffering from chronic hunger in America have locked themselves up and do not want help, as all it takes is a phone call.

I need more convincing that hunger is a big problem in the US of A, and that convincing argument and facts to support it are not anywhere to be found. Stories like the one chronicled by nola.com are considered by our politicians as proof of the plight of the poor in America. But this is not hunger by any means. She’s not poor by any means. She’s not poverty stricken by world standards. She’s not experiencing hunger. Not with a huge TV like that in her public provided housing unit that, by the way, our government pays for all of the bills. Poor? I don’t think so.

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Sharon Jasper sits in the living room of her voucher-backed private residence. “I might be poor but I don’t like to live poor. I thank God for a place to live but it’s pitiful what people give you.”

But the TV is not HD!!! Michelle Malkin has all the links to more about the plight of poor pitiful Sharon Jasper.

Africa is a different story.

A new organization is growing that promotes the desire to end poverty forever, to make poverty history. Not only poverty, but also hunger, disease and AIDS world wide. A worthy cause for sure, but how? Read this column by Walter Williams: Worst plan for Africa: Foreign aid.

I thought the UN had tackled this problem and was dedicated to eliminating it all, and as huge as the UN has become, and as much as the US and other western nations have given to the UN, you would think that by now that great progress was being made and the end was in sight.

But that’s not the case, is it?

So now on the scene comes a new organization calling for more and more aid to eliminate poverty in Africa, a new one called: “ONE”, a creation that got started out of DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa) in 2004 by Bono, the rock star.

ONE is Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life - united as ONE - to help make poverty history. We are a campaign of over 2.4 million people and growing from all 50 states and over 100 of America’s most well-known and respected non-profit, advocacy and humanitarian organizations. As ONE, we are raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world’s poorest countries. As ONE, we are asking our leaders to do more to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE believes that allocating more of the U.S. budget toward providing basic needs like health, education, clean water and food would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the world’s poorest countries.

There it is folks, another part of the socialist agenda of people with right motives with wrong solutions. Their solution is that of the redistribution of wealth, the confiscation of peoples property from the haves to the have nots, from the better off Americans to the poor around the world, to those suffering from AIDS and other deadly diseases. More of our taxes going to fight poverty world wide. Forced redistribution. By the mighty powerful arm of Washington. The Global Poverty Act of 2007 is designed “to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.” It would commit the feds to applying 0.7% of GNP each year on foreign aid (approximately 845 billion over 13 years, over and above what we are already spending) It would be a global tax on us, subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.

Rick Warren is throwing his support to the ONE campaign, as have many of the elite wealthy entertainers holding concerts to raise awareness of the plight of the poor and those with AIDS and other diseases. It works to raise our awareness, but it does very little, if anything to help the chronic poor, relieving their condition now and into the future. Instead of insisting that we all sacrifice, these ‘haves,” could work with charities and do so much more by giving of their own resources rather than spending so much time trying to raise our awareness.

“He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.” Notice that word “giveth” is a voluntary act, and not as this group and politicians desire, which is nothing but robin hood tactics.

The Bible tells us “the poor will be with you always.” It also says: “He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.” and: “Rob not the poor , because he is poor ; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.” and “He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.” and on and on it goes, verse after verse about the poor with more that 5000 references about the poor and needy. In the old testament, the Jews were told to let the land lay idle in the seventh year for the poor to gather to meet their needs, and after that the animals would have the left overs.

Solutions to poverty come in many stripes, as do the causes. But, to think it can be eliminated forever and ever everywhere in the world is foolish, idealistic thinking.

However, it’s still the duty of the churched to come to the aid of the poor, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and heal the sick, first in their own neighborhood, and when that is accomplished. then moving on to the next circle and expanding outwards until the world is reached. But the neighborhood comes first. Our charities have handled the American problem, so now it’s time to expand the vision and help the world, which our charities have already been working on for decades (in spite of government regulations and the dangers involved), and are doing more to help the plight of the poor worldwide than any, and I mean any, including the UN, or any other, and all other governmental organization could ever accomplish by government to government aid.

The best thing the government could do would be to remove restrictions and take a hands off approach to charities and let those charities and the voluntary donations from the most giving people of the world handle the problem. If those African nations who want our charity, who need our charity, would guarantee the safety of all of our charities and their workers, provide them with a free-hand in reaching the poverty stricken within their own borders, then the work would progress and their own people would benefit greatly, their own economies would benefit beyond their imagination. Our charities wish to not only take care of immediate needs, but also to teach the people to fish and to tend to their own crops and to open markets and businesses. But restrictions and hindrances by governments get in their way.

Americans voluntarily give like no other country on this earth, but we don’t like to give to blood suckers, to those who abuse our good will, such as the corrupted UN and our own politicians who use the plight of the poor as “feel good” vote pandering.

If you believe our government has the duty to aid the poor the world over, then find that in the constitution for me.

If you accept that the government must help the poor, then you must also accept that the government can take what is needed from you in whatever quantities they want to meet those needs.

You will then become a slave.

As I see It.

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Feb 26 2008

A Socialist Ice Age around the corner.

Published by Arnie under Environmental

I don’t know about your part of the North America but here in Oklahoma, it’s been a very unusually cold winter for us. First the ice storm in November that put most of the area without power for a week, and some areas up to 10 days and more as the heavy ice on the tree branches broke limbs in two that fell across power lines. January was colder than normal and February has not been any warmer. Man, it’s cold. The north has experienced similar abnormal cold spells.

What’s going on?

Where is global warming when you want it? Need it?

“China is experiencing its most brutal winter in a century.”

“In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.”

“OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.” National Post: Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age.

Well, why not? Why not predict that we are on the verge of a looming terrifying catastrophe that will wipe out forever the likelihood that the palm trees growing in Disneyland will survive, and that the cold will be so fierce by the year 2021 that the Rio Grande will freeze over.

Why not? The evidence is here to support such a claim, just look at the metrological data, the temperature graphs over the past months, not only of here in North America, but also in China, Europe, and even the middle east has had unusual weather this year. Snow falls in Jerusalem; storms shut Golan schools.   Baghdad saw it’s first snow fall in all of recorded history.  So what’s going on with these very unusual weather patterns?

“La Nina is causing warm moist air to move to the south of China,” said Professor Yan Yuk- yee, who specializes in climatology at Hong Kong Baptist University. “When this meets the cold air of the monsoon, it causes freezing conditions.” Unusual Cold caused by Global Warming??

Remember the prediction of a drastic increase in hurricanes? GW was the cause. Never happened. A greater number of tsunamis? Never happened. The polar ice was melting faster than a popsicle in the hand of an illegal immigrant running through the desert.

Now Bob Lutz, the Vice Chairman of General Motors has said that global warming is a “total crock of s—.”

The answer of course is bogged down in attacks against each other, from both sides of the issue, and any chance of an honest open debate is nil, and will not happen either.  Any chance of a sensible middle of the road environmental policy regarding global carbon emissions will not happen either.  The environmentalists don’t want that to happen, for sure, as it just might spoil their entire agenda which is:

“The answer to global warming is in the abolition of private property and production for human needs. A socialist world would place an enormous priority on alternative energy sources. this is what ecologically-minded socialists have been exploring for quite some time now.” Louis Proyect Columbia University. The home page for this Marxist teaching at one of our American universities.

Do you know of any socialist agendas taking place right here in America? Are any of the presidential candidates socialistic?

Take a gander at this video.

The socialists have an ice age in mind for America.  Iced out of your comfortable home by carbon credit payoffs. 

 

As I see It.

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Feb 23 2008

The Oscars? The worst is yet to come.

Published by Arnie under Entertainment

Oh, pity the stars may have to endure some rain on the carpet for this years stellar event that our entertainment oriented society is beginning to tune out.  And that’s good news.  I’m serious.  It comes as good news that Sunday’s extravaganza of Hollywood’s ‘pats on the backs’ may be the worst ever.  Perhaps Americans are catching on to their decadent ways.

“So, all in all, I think everyone should expect the Worst Oscars Ever In The History Of Hollywood. Really, Sunday can’t come fast enough to put this beleaguered 80th Academy Awards which almost was picketed into oblivion out of its misery.”  So says Nikki Finke, the columnist for LA Weekly.

Pat Boone has an excellent take on the Oscars. 

But this year, as in the last several years, I’ve voted with great misgivings. When Elvis and I came into the business, we and the producers and the studio execs were all aiming at the vast “family audience,” the moms and dads who gathered their kids on a Friday or Saturday night and headed to the local movie theater. Of course, we hoped to appeal to the teens, but we were aware that real success depended on our entertaining the whole age range – and certainly not offending parents by “going over the line,” sexually or morally in any way. No nudity, no profanity, no brutality and absolutely no explicit, graphic sex scenes.

We had hit movies, one after another. Big bucks, huge audiences, worldwide acclaim. And the movie business itself was prospering like never before, with weekend family attendance a predictable ritual. I had “April Love” and “State Fair” and “Journey To The Center of The Earth,” while Elvis had “Love Me Tender,” “King Creole,” “Blue Hawaii” and many more. There was no “X” rating, or even “PG”; movies were for the whole family, and families all over the world ate ‘em up and envied the glorious country they reflected.

All that has changed, drastically. Today the movie studios belch forth silly, raunchy, titillating teen schlock, “chick flicks” (soapy, sexy women’s stories), and over-violent car chase or bloodletting fantasies. Or they give us all-out soft porn – morbid, taboo-busting and hopelessly dark productions clearly intended to appeal to every base instinct known to man. The current “horror films” manage to combine all these elements into a mindless sensory blitz of blood, sex, violence and fear, a modern American staple.

Read all of Pat’s column right here.

Our society has changed.  And the worst is yet to come. 

But just maybe there might be a glimmer of hope that America’s culture of holding entertainers as models to adore is declining.   We can hope. 

 

And that’s As I see It.

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Feb 23 2008

Making sense of the Kosovo Embassy attacks.

The US, and the EU are holding the Serbs responsible for the attack against the US embassy, but in doing so have they forgotten history?   I admit, my knowledge of Serbian history is next to nil.  History can get just a bit confusing with all the special names of people and groups I’ve never heard of before, and I really don’t have the time to go back and read volumes of books to catch up from the beginning.   So like most of us I presume, we follow the officials who we presume know better, who have that basic understanding of the area in question, the State Department, the specialists, the Ambassadors, the officials in charge.

“We do hold the Serb government responsible. We’ve made that very clear,” [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice said, adding, “We don’t expect that to happen again.” The United States protested against the attack on Thursday to Serbian authorities.”

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The European Union told Serbia on Friday to protect embassies after attacks over Western support for Kosovo’s secession, and suggested such violence could harm its prospects of closer ties with the with the bloc.”

Yes, the Serbs did attack our embassy, but what is their justification for doing so?  Why would they do that?   What has the US done to warrant such an outburst against us, the “peacemakers”?   The Serbs are not Muslims.  They are not protesting our western values like the Muslims abhor.  So what has the west forgot?

Putin of Russia has issued a warning to the west.  MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a sharp warning to the West on Friday about the consequences of recognizing Kosovo’s independence, saying the decision would “come back to knock them on the head.”  [snip] “Russia has staunchly supported Serbia in opposing Kosovo’s secession, and has vowed to block any effort in the United Nations to recognize its independence.”    Read more. . .

Read this article from way back in 2001, a year that most westerners want to forget, but the event of the year woke us up as to the intent of radical Islam.  “Al Qaeda’s Balkan Links.”

For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade. Many recruits to the Balkan wars came originally from Chechnya, a jihad in which Al Qaeda has also played a part.   Continue reading the Free Republic article. 

In July of 2007, Julia Gorin wrote a very extensive, well documented article entitled “Ending the Balkan Quagmire at American Thinker.“  One of the only non-Serbian Americans to do so, I watched with steady interest for the better part of a decade the clockwork predictability of the fallout from our forgotten Kosovo intervention, a bombing campaign against an emerging post-Communist democracy rooted in Judeo-Christian values–on behalf of tribalistic, blood-code-following nominal Muslims claiming oppression and no less than genocide and ethnic cleansing.  Continue. . .

What Julia is saying is that The US and our fellow westerners have taken the wrong side to defend.  Skip ahead to her article posted on FrontPage Magazine of yesterday: Kosovo: Islamism’s New Beachhead?

To put this in perspective, with advance apologies to any offended ethnic groups: How would Americans react if Latino gangs started ambushing police and killing government officials in California, and after a few years the U.S. sent in the troops because the gangs were outgunning the police force; following this, the gangsters started claiming atrocities—and so Russia and China bombed California and Washington in response to the “atrocities”; the foreign powers then occupied California for eight years while the gangs killed or expelled most of the non-Latinos in “revenge attacks,” then backed a declaration of independence for California as a Mexican-majority state that may just unify with Mexico?   Read more . . .

 

Now, I understand. 

 

 

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Feb 21 2008

Global Warming Data. Too hot to handle.

Published by Arnie under Environmental

Where did Al Gore and all of his scientists get the data they have used to conclude that the earth is warming up? Weather stations, 1221 of them, have been placed all over the place, starting back in the early 1900’s to help meteorologists keep track of weather patterns. There are rules as to where these monitoring stations can be placed so as to get the most accurate data. They were not to be placed near nor around concrete surfaces which reflect heat, but placed in grassy areas 100 feet away from reflecting surfaces, on relatively flat ground and the stations are to be located elevated in slatted boxes allowing the free flow of air through the box. Sounds reasonable.

Well, it turns out many of the boxes have not been moved in decades, yet the immediate area surrounding the station has changed. As the photo below shows, this station would have data that is artificially changed by the jet engine blasts, as well as the reflecting surfaces of concrete, gravel lot and the building etc.   When the station was originally placed, the rules had been followed, but over time, the surrounding area has changed.   Drastically.   Yet, the scientists continue to monitor the data from the station as if there were no problems with artificial inflationary surroundings.

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How about this one next to a window air conditioner and a 2 story building with light colored siding placed on what looks like a wooden platform. These two stations are not conforming to standards. Duh.

Weather Station forestgrove

What can we conclude by just these two examples of stations that would provide inflated warmer temperature data? Throw out all of the data collected over the last two hundred years? 2 out of 1221 would not make a hill of beans difference in the combined data.

But that’s not all.

There’s a dozen documented locations that break the rules shown here. And many more can be found by browsing this site. And there are many more, many more.

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How about this one in Arizona.

Would the data collected there be too hot?

The conclusion: Global warming data is flawed from the git go.

Visit this site (surfacestations.org) to learn more very interesting facts about our weather stations and what meteorologist Anthony Watts is doing with the help of volunteers. As our government agency the NOAA is responsible for the operation, documentation and upkeep of the USHCN set of weather stations, you would think that they had pictures of each and documentation of current conditions. But no, they don’t.

More hot air artificially inflating the climate data, and yet the world’s officials don’t care whether the information used is accurate or not.

“Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, “What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.” But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.” Ronald Reagan

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Feb 21 2008

Earth Hour black outs.

Published by Arnie under The Press, Environmental

Coming March 29th.  You are encouraged to participate.   Just an hour to bring more recognition to the calamity the earth is facing because of the irresponsibility of people like you and me and Henry Ford and the Wright Brothers and guys like Frank Phillips. 

Twenty-four cities around the world will fall into shadow next month as homes and businesses turn off the lights to raise awareness about global warming, organisers said Tuesday.

It started last year in Sydney and the event has gained strength as additional cities have signed up to participate urging their citizens to turn the lights out and the appliances off for one hour beginning at 8:00 pm local time. 

“The problem is massive but we do make a difference when we all take action.”  Read More . . .    See the difference you can make Here.

 

After you have read all of that, then think. 

When the government starts to mandate these things, then what?

How soon will the government send the “lights out police” for enforcement?

How much more will be required?

Is there a place where this will level off and ordinary citizens can have their freedoms of choice restored?

That sun out there 93 million miles away has more effect on the atmosphere of the earth than 93 million vehicles puffing out their toxic emissions.   Turning off 93 million lights for one hour will only reduce our combined electric bills by pennies for each home, until the government imposes more taxes on power companies as “incentives” to conserve, then you’ll pay much more.  This will be “doing your part.”

 

 

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