Some of the headline new stories are enough to send a kid looking for the nearest cannabis farm. . . or the funny farm.

1. President Bush wants to help struggling homeowners.

2. The Federal Reserve wants an overhaul.

3. Climate change must be reversed, but will cost billions.

4. Oil executives to take heat from congress.

5. Newspapers are losing ad revenue.

6. Katrina victims have been paid too much.

7. Cities are paying workers huge sums in overtime.

8. People are dying because they do not have health Insurance.

9. And a school nurse takes away a 13 year old girls crutches because someone may get hurt.

10. Experts invent new scientific term: “Nomophobia”

In the first four articles above you will note that government thinks of itself as the answer to all our problems, even to rescuing the earth.

#5 is thrown in there to illustrate the state of our media. People actually reading the papers, and watching network news are declining in record amounts, subscriptions and circulations are down, and therefore, yes, ad revenues are declining. Will the feds get involved and somehow rescue these papers because ‘we the people should have access to all the news that’s fit to print.’ Hey why not.

# 6 and 7 are good examples of the excesses of government and their wasteful spending. Can’t be, can it?

#8 is a reporters bending the facts to highlight the need for a liberal national health insurance program. As if doctors were inserting on the death certificate: “no insurance.”

#9 could be used to illustrate the state of our government schools and the ever increasing rabies inflicted liberal progressive administrators.

#10 When all else fails, state some data, invent a new word for a new phobia, then approve it for a disability benefit.

So, now do you want my own take.

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Luke 21:25-26

Are we there yet?

Both Hillary and Barrack, along with democrats on the hill, have proposed huge billion dollar bailouts to mortgage holders coming upon bad times with bad decisions.   The banker Bear Stearns got their federally engineered bailout to the tune of $30 billion, so what’s fair for the big finance company means the little guy should get some of the same.     It’s only fair.  Right?  Why not?   It’d help the economy.  It’d help homeowners.   It’d help the banks who loaned the money which is now not there?  Everybody wins.  Right?

Not so fast.   How about the rest of us who get some of our cash confiscated to bail all these people out?   What about us?

There is nothing within our constitution that allows the feds to do this.   Not a word.  

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other.   Horatio Bunce.   “It’s not yours to give.”

Oh, but the constitution is a “living document” and it must keep up with the times as the times change.   Sure, and where will it stop?  Katrina victims got bailed out.  We sent billions to aid the tsunami victims in Indonesia. FEMA is ready with cash in hand to bailout individuals for just about any natural disaster, severe storms, flooding, straight line winds, landslides and mudslides, wildfires and debris flows.   Where does it end?   Global warming climate change will demand disaster relief. 

America is in financial trouble and cannot last much longer, as everyone continues to look to Washington to care for a nose bleed.

Read that entire article.  It’s not yours to give.

This Saturday evening between 8 pm and 9 pm you are encouraged to turn your lights out to save energy and the earth from catastrophic destruction, if you live in Columbia Mo, that is.  Columbia, Mo.   You’d think that radically green San Francisco, Denver or Chicago would be participating big time\ as they are, but not our small towns heartland of America, Colombia Mo, Norman, OK., or the 23,000 people in Opelika Al.

This event is officially called “Earth Hour,”  and it’s all meant to drive up the awareness of the eventual doomed earth, if we normal average folks don’t cooperate with the doomsday crowd of global climate change societal engineers of the UN IPCC.   We, who do not accept the entire enchilada as put out by the Gore worshipers, are criticized as flat earthers, you know, like folks who also think that Neil Armstrong taking that first step on the moon was a staged event in the desert of New Mexico.   In other words, we are considered as stupid imbeciles who can’t come in out of the freezing rain without someone from the government aiding and paving the way.

You can click here to see if your little berg is participating.

Man, just to be spiteful, if I lived in one of those towns, every light in my home would be burning at full power, and I’d be out mowing the lawn spewing emissions, while the car was idling in the driveway, as I was also tugging a gas powered leaf blower on my back.   My defense would be, “I don’t watch the local news.”   Force me to, go ahead.   Jail time?  A fine? 

When the local news stations shut down their news broadcasts and on-site vans, and/or TV programs, and the city officials shut down their special event calendar and committee meetings, and the Hollywood bunch close up the award pats on the backs, and the theaters shut down, and the officials in Washington shut down their dinner parties with lobbyists, and blah blah blah, then I might consider it, but  only after Al Gore pledges to stay home for a year or two and not fly away in his fuel happy jet to high paid speeches. 

Also, when the UN moves out of NY., and then possibly when we really do send a man to Pluto.

As I see It.

Ok, the news has been abuzz with the make up artist Hillary Rodham, making up, or fabricating, or embellishing, or just plain out lying about some sort of news or activity she was involved in. . . her “misspeak” about her plane landing amid hostile gunfire in Bosnia.   That was not a senior moment for Hillary.   That was, well a “story,” and her aides said she had misspoken, and Hillary said she made a mistake, she erred, and she “was joking.  Lighten up guys.”

And here is misspeak number two for the week. 

“Interviewed on the “Today” show one week after 9/11, she spun an elaborate yarn. The kindest thing we could say was that it was a fantasy. Or a fabrication.

She said that Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center on 9/11 and happened to duck into a coffee shop when the airplanes hit. She said that this move saved Chelsea’s life. But Chelsea told Talk magazine that she was in a friend’s apartment four miles from ground zero when the first plane hit. Her friend called her, waking her up, and told her to turn on the TV. On television, she saw the second plane hit, disproving Hillary’s claim that “she heard the plane hit. She heard it. She did.”    More. . .

She did, she really did hear it . . .  on TV just like the rest of the country was watching it re-run over and over again on their TV’s in their own homes.  

How many more of these are out there ready to be found and exposed to the people?   

Dick Morris, who used to be the Clinton’s confidant when Bill had the power, has a list of Hillary’s fabrications and “misspeaks,” you know, those little white lies that are supposed to be overlooked as just being a part of the human experience.   And our beloved media have done just  that, overlooked them all as insignificant.

The president of this country needs to be respected as one who tells the truth, tells it like it is, tells the truth to foreign dignitaries so they will know where the US of A stands.   And Hillary has shown herself to be anything but truthful, but we won’t have to be concerned with that anyway, as the analysts are predicting that the Clinton machine does not have a tornado chance of gaining enough delegates to win the democrat nomination. 

Or, does it?

The superdelegates are still struggling.   The democrats seem to be imploding right in front of us, but don’t think for a nanosecond that the democrat machine will go down without a fight, without that strong front being together when the choice is finally made. 

Only in American government schools could you find school officials enforcing the zero tolerance rule for “touching.”   Not for touching a student of the opposite sex in their “private” areas, but for touching a BB gun that another student brought aboard a school bus. 

WSBTV. SPALDING COUNTY, Ga.  

The kids were accused of committing a “serious” violation.

I’ve feel like I must get definitions straight first of all, so I’m using the classical definition of the word “Queer” meaning: “deviating from the expected or normal; strange” and “Odd or unconventional, as in behavior; eccentric,” and “Of a questionable nature or character; suspicious.”

“An Oregon man who used to be a woman says he is pregnant with a baby girl.”  According to the story, Mr. Beatie was born a woman but decided to become a transgender male and legally changed his sex to male. He had his breasts surgically removed and started bimonthly testosterone injections, but kept his vagina.

Mrs, but now Mr. Beatie is portraying her/himself as a man equipped with a vagina and no breasts and is now pregnant with child, planning to be a loving father?/mother? raising the child up in the ways that he/she should go.  

What a queer family, and a tangled mess of lies and deception that child will be born into. 

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And another queer story titled Super Queer and supported by faculty at Bowling Green University. Jennifer Dietsch sat in the student union at Bowling Green State University studying for an upcoming test when a faculty member approached and thanked her for her visibility.
Dietsch was wearing a black triangular facemask and rainbow cape draped over her tie-dye T-shirt. She was dressed as Superqueer, a gender-neutral superhero she created to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender awareness on her campus.

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And then there is this story which is really ‘queer’ because the reaction to it deviates from our normal view that all Americans have the right of free speech in this country, the right to their own opinions right or wrong.   It’s the plight of Sally Kern, Oklahoma state representative who said a few things about the gay lifestyle and their agendas on the floor of the Oklahoma House. 

This is the quote that got Sally in trouble with the supersensitive gays:  “Studies show, no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted for more than, you know, a few decades. . .

I honestly think it’s the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam. . .

Hate speech or free speech? 

In her own defense Sally had this to say:  “To put this simply, as a Christian I believe homosexuality is not moral. Obviously, you have the right as an American to choose that lifestyle, but I also have the right to express my views and my fellow Oklahomans have the right to debate these issues.  In recent years homosexual activists have begun to aggressively promote their agenda through the political process, often providing substantial financing to candidates who agree with their views, including many running for state legislative races.“    A true statement.

“Most Oklahomans are socially conservative and believe marriage is a sacred institution, the union of one man and one woman, and that the traditional family is worth protecting and preserving.“   I would also agree that we Okies favor traditional marriage over queer marriages, those marriages that are deviating from the normal or expected, strange and unconventional. 

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And then there is this queerness about Homosexual ‘nuns’ mock Christianity.  they call themselves the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” who have staged a “hunky Jesus” competition on Resurrection Sunday.   “It’s meant to scandalize and offend people, and those responsible certainly succeed in that regard,” the blog said. “The blasphemy you see is one of the ways these people seek to reinforce their fantasy that God is either a myth or indifferent to their lifestyle choices, no matter how obviously unnatural (at least to anyone who is not bereft of what should be common sense). Those who insist that acts of blasphemy and indecency, and shameless acts of perversion are harmless – or even acts of virtue – do so because of moral blindness resulting from obstinacy in evil…”

What is really queer to me is that these activist gays, lesbians and transgenders go out and claim their right to free speech, but wish to deny the right of free speech to anyone that might be objecting to their depravity and agendas against all that is right and moral.   Now that’s really queer thinking. 

Now I claim my right to express my thoughts and beliefs and do not consider them queer, although others might consider what I say as anti-queer.   So be it.   It’s really a straightforward world we get born into as a male or a female, and there is nothing biologically confusing about that.   It’s just what happens later on to small minority of the people of the earth when they get queer thoughts and desires, that makes this a queerly unconventional strange place deviating from the straightforward and normal.

It’s also very queer to me that these same people blatantly display their homosexual lifestyle choices at the same point in time when if this was done in Iran they would be hanged or beheaded or stoned to death, while the religion of Islam is making inroads into the US and these same people are not speaking out against Muslims who really “hate” homosexuality, while Christians condemn the sinful acts while still loving the sinner.

And that is As I see It.

What a guy.   What a gifted and talented columnist and military historian.

“I saw a startling statistic that said that 24% of all stories in the New York Times until last year were devoted to Iraq, and this year, 3% were. I saw a column the other day, and it said, “How to resolve the quagmire.” And I looked down, it was about the Democratic race.” 

That’s Victor Davis Hansen speaking at the Wednesday Morning Club on 3/20/2008 and I wish I were there, I wish, I wish that the people of the US would read this speech before they throw the US to the dogs by electing Hillary, who misspeaks, who misspeaks the truth and then has her aides call it a mis-pronouncement.

Where We Stand on Iraq and the Election

By Victor Davis Hanson

“The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued … This is not what you’d expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you’d expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up … So (it’s) very unexpected, not something that’s being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it’s very significant.”   Read more . . . .

For us skeptics, or deniers, as the global climate change believers like to label us, this is not news at all.

Speaking of the news, where is the mainstream news folks on this subject of the earth’s temperature actually having plateaued and decreased over the last decade despite the hockey stick rising levels of carbon dioxide emissions?   

Why are they so silent?  

Why is the Gore still getting huge sums for his speeches?   It’s been said that a con man’s job is not to convince the skeptics but to enable people to believe what they want to believe.  

Why are corporations going green?  

Why are elected officials tripping all over each other trying to regulate everything from outlawing light bulbs to restricting what can be built on the shores of the coast lines in preparation of a coming hyped up disaster that is not imminent?    The answer is POWER and CONTROL.

“Well-meaning intellectual movements, from communism to post-structuralism, have a poor history of absorbing inconvenient fact or challenges to fundamental precepts. We should not ignore or suppress good indicators on the environment, though they have become extremely rare now. It is tempting to the layman to embrace with enthusiasm the latest bleak scenario because it fits the darkness of our soul, the prevailing cultural pessimism. The imagination, as Wallace Stevens once said, is always at the end of an era. But we should be asking, or expecting others to ask, for the provenance of the data, the assumptions fed into the computer model, the response of the peer review community, and so on. Pessimism is intellectually delicious, even thrilling, but the matter before us is too serious for mere self-pleasuring. It would be self-defeating if the environmental movement degenerated into a religion of gloomy faith. (Faith, ungrounded certainty, is no virtue.)” 

As I see It.

The following are the reasons consumers have given for the high price of gasoline at the pump, recently reported to be upwards to $5.40 per gallon for premium in one California town.  This is what average Americans think.  Anyway, read and weep.   If there are any critical thinking people out there, they don’t appear in this journalistic slide show.

“It probably has something to do with Iraq and there’s just no cap on it.

“Bush, or too many people using gas.  So demand, prices go up.”

“cost of oil is high. 

“Supply and demand - - no supply, high demand.”

“I don’t think there’s any good reason for it.  I think it’s all contrived.  I think it’s the oil companies making their extra profits.”

“It’s the perfect storm I think, there’s just too much stuff going on.  You can’t point it down to one thing.  The supply is there, they can jack up the prices to whatever.”

“Well I think it’s because of the economy,  I think people are gauging.”

And I love this one . . .   “Because we should probably, so that we use less of it.’

Did anyone mention the fact that not one new oil refinery has been built over the last 31 years?    There was one approved by the EPA along the Arizona/California border in 2005.

Did anyone mention the fact that the environmentalist lobby is one of the strongest lobbies, and the bulliest of them all?  Not in my back yard.  Not in the gulf.  Not in Anwar.   Not anywhere a long tailed horny toed frog might be froging.  No.  No.  No.   It ain’t gonna happen.   No thought that this could be the greatest reason why gasoline prices are so high - - - - supply.

Did anyone think to mention good old Al Gore, the UN IPCC, the Kyoto treaty?

Did anyone mention the regulations for reformulated blended gasoline to meet ozone layer clean air mandatory guidelines, which are so very different from state to state and city to city?

Why not?

Well, go back to the year 2000 and a testimony of Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute in front of the Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs United States House of Representatives for the “Effect of Federal Regulations on Gasoline Prices in the Milwaukee/Chicago area” for some good sound information. 

And then read and think on these things. “Ethanol is 20 to 30 percent less efficient than gasoline, making it more expensive per highway mile. It takes 450 pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank. That’s enough corn to feed one person for a year. Plus, it takes more than one gallon of fossil fuel — oil and natural gas — to produce one gallon of ethanol. After all, corn must be grown, fertilized, harvested and trucked to ethanol producers — all of which are fuel-using activities. And, it takes 1,700 gallons of water to produce one gallon of ethanol. On top of all this, if our total annual corn output were put to ethanol production, it would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 or 12 percent.”  Read more . . .   “Big Corn and Ethanol Hoax”  by Walter Williams.

If we the people don’t speak up against the wacko environmentalists who have been given control of the economy by our congress, then we get what we have and we deserve what we get . . . high prices, inflation, less and less freedom and more and more micro regulations to take over where the previous regulations left off. 

As I See It.

Proponents argue that increasing the mandates for ethanol usage in gasoline will end our dependence on foreign oil.   Is that true, or is it just a bunch of agenda driven environmentalist hogwash? 

“Ethanol fuel is a sustainable energy resource that is intended to provide a more environmentally and economically friendly alternative to fossil fuels such as diesel and gasoline. There are many debates surrounding the environmental friendliness of ethanol, and the production viability. Ethanol as an energy alternative discusses some of the drawbacks of ethanol fuel and this article says that ethanol is not the answer yet. So where does the future of ethanol stand?”   energyrefuge.com

Ethanol Fuel More Advantageous Than Thought.  Journal Science has a new study that came out in January of 2006 correcting some errors in a previous study.  “After correcting the errors—which ranged from incorrect unit conversions to reliance on data from outdated methods more than a century old—the researchers arrived at a very different conclusion: not only does corn-based ethanol gas reduce petroleum use by 95 percent, it also reduces greenhouse gas emissions about 13 percent, although that decrease is within a range of uncertainty for the imprecise data involved.”

When will a new study come out correcting the results of this latest study?   In other words, remain skeptical, and consider that studies of mankind are just that, studies with pre-designed intentions.   If ethanol is such a great and beautiful substitute for oil based fuel, why has it not made it big time in the free market?   Goodness gracious, those big evil profit driven corporations would have seen huge amounts of profits waiting to be harvested, and would have jumped on the production of ethanol and new ethanol based machines by now, don’t you think?  If, that is, ethanol was a such viable product. 

Walter Williams has an excellent column:  Big Corn and Ethanol Hoax 

Ethanol is so costly that it wouldn’t make it in a free market. That’s why Congress has enacted major ethanol subsidies, about $1.05 to $1.38 a gallon, which is no less than a tax on consumers. In fact, there’s a double tax — one in the form of ethanol subsidies and another in the form of handouts to corn farmers to the tune of $9.5 billion in 2005 alone.

There’s something else wrong with this picture. If Congress and President Bush say we need less reliance on oil and greater use of renewable fuels, then why would Congress impose a stiff tariff, 54 cents a gallon, on ethanol from Brazil? Brazilian ethanol, by the way, is produced from sugar cane and is far more energy efficient, cleaner and cheaper to produce.  More . . .

It is a wonder that the idea is even considered as replacing our dependence on oil.  It is also a wonder why oil companies are prevented from drilling in ANWAR and in the gulf.  Another wonder is why nuclear power is not even discussed.  

As I See It.