All is not well for the global warming advocates. 

The people have been led down the slippery path of deceit by the UN IPCC and now it’s all falling apart, the dam has broken as their faulty details are being brought to the light of day.

The revelations have been nothing short of jaw dropping. Dozens - yes dozens - of claims made in the IPCC 2007 report on climate change that was supposed to represent the "consensus" of 2500 of the world’s climate scientists have been shown to be bogus, or faulty, or not properly vetted, or simply pulled out of thin air.

There was Glaciergate, tempgate, icegate, and now, Amazongate.

The IPCC claimed that up to 40% of the Amazonian forests were risk from global warming and would likely be replaced by "tropical savannas" if temperatures continued to rise.  The Dam is Cracking.  BBC News.

But it turns out that the changes in the Amazon forests are because of loggers.

Truth eventually wins out.  But where are the stories in the American media?  They remain silent.  When will the educators recant their indoctrination of our children?  When will our politicians find another cause?  Will they ever apologize for so readily accepting the lies? 

The global cooling is continuing and the south east has been hit with snow and ice. Here in this northeastern Oklahoma town we got 6 1/2 inches of snow over night on top of the previous days rain which became ice before the snow came.  Western NC got 10” of the white stuff.  Nashville is plowing out and the mid Atlantic is getting their share, as Richmond got a foot and DC is in for it also.

So now, the people with the plows are out making some extra cash.  Kids in the neighborhoods are shoveling driveways for some extra cash. The transportation departments are using up their supplies of salt on the bridges, expressways and the main roads utilizing overtime schedules to get it all done.  The power companies are working around the clock fixing the poles and lines that broke, leaving thousands in the dark.  That’s overtime pay for those guys.

Just think of the extra cash that will be made by the auto repair shops as people wreck their cars on the frozen streets.  Fire departments are busy rescuing people and the police are . . .well. . . not concentrating on seat belt violators.

It’s job growth.

Mother nature was at work helping us out of the recession, as that extra cash is going to be spent at the stores and restaurants.  Even the IRS will get their fair share.  This is a good thing, right?  I try to find something positive about these storms that hit and cause all of this inconvenience.  But then people die because of the storms also, and that’s unfortunate.

Back in the late 70’s, I lived in Grand Rapids, MI. and one week-end we got 20” of the stuff.  Unfortunately I had to drive in from Kalamazoo during the bulk of it.   It became a white out on 131 while I could only see the red tail lights of the vehicle ahead of me.  If he went in the ditch, I would have followed him.  No cell-phone to keep in contact with home.  Stupid?  It could have ended up that way.   But cautiously, I made it.  But that’s the thing about human nature, we all do stupid (unwise) things at times, where some make it and some don’t. 

In an economic sense, it is a positive thing for the economy.  Right?  Shovels are sold. Sleds and slides are bought for fun . Extra food is stashed away.  We’ve been stimulated with shovel ready jobs.

A news item caught my attention this morning that illustrates the mood of the country.   There already is a ruling class and Americans have let them start ruling.  We see their intrusions into our lives everyday, but we don’t yet recognize much of it as being harmful to our development and a danger to our freedoms. 

Today we’ve got a major storm heading our way with icy pellets and then snow on top of that.  The local news is all over it, warning us all of the front moving in, when and how bad it could be.  The thinking on the street is that it’s the medias job to alert us of the worst case scenario.  They interrupt the normal programming to keep us updated.  They inform us of the necessary precautions we should take.  They inform us how to drive a vehicle over icy roads: slow down, don’t brake hard, pump your breaks, don’t make any sharp turns and beware of the hills.  Look for black ice.  Have you filled your windshield washer canister with de-icer?  Do you have an emergency kit in the car?  A blanket?  A flashlight?  Is your cell-phone charged? 

Even the local news is part of our sense of being dictated to.

On and on it goes with all of these instructions and concerns for our safety.  We depend on those warnings.  We look for them.  If we don’t get an update when we want it, then we search for the latest.  We depend on the instructions that goes side by side with the warnings.

At a San Diego Middle school, a 13 year old, following her parents instructions, refused to take the H1N1 flu shot by the school nurse. 

The girl “was pulled from class to get the vaccination. She advised the security guard who escorted her to the vaccination area that she was not supposed to get the shot and was told that maybe “her mom changed her mind,”  Read it. . .

The parents had “signed a form last November stating his daughter, a student at San Ysidro Middle School, was not to get a shot and reaffirmed that position to two people last week.”

The attitude of the school officials again is ‘”we know best”, “we only have the best interests of your child in mind,” and our decisions override any preferences you as a parent may have.  Sorry, but we are the authorities.  We have the necessary training to make the sound judgments necessary for the safety of the children.  We care, we really do care.  More than you do, as is evident by your refusal to allow your child to get the vaccination that would possibly save her life.  You do what we say, or else.  You idiot.  Go back and watch TV and leave the welfare of your child to us.

It’s a wonder how the greatest generation lived long enough to become the greatest generation.  Not too many decades ago technology did not allow rapid fire broadcast warnings of a storms approach.  When a storm hit it just hit.  Good grief, the people remembered the previous storm, and the one before that, and learned a thing or two from those and then got prepared for the current season of storms.  There was no one on the nightly news thinking that they must prepare a segment to tell the citizens what they must do. 

The federal government was also mum about the myriad product safety warnings, health warnings, nor when and where it’s safe to hunt a deer.   But now they feel they must instruct us on how to prepare a low-cholesterol and vitamin rich balanced meal.  The EPA now delves into descriptive clean air investigations around the schools and now mothers insist their children don’t waste time playing outside breathing EPA defined air.  The school buildings must meet strict federal building codes with breathe easy and no guns allowed signs, yet the hallways require a staff of uniformed policemen.

Now, Obama appointed a food safety czar.   A czar is defined as an autocratic ruler or leader.  This government now has a car czar, a green jobs czar, a health czar, dozens of others czars, and even, get this. . . a “faith based czar”.  As though the religions of the world, especially Christians and Jews, need a ruler in government to make sure the zealots don’t go too far over the edge demonstrating faith in a loving merciful God of creation, who those fanatics look to for help in time of need.    Now the government must instruct us on matters pertaining to bigotry, racism, diversity and discrimination. and has the charts to prove how racist the radicals really are.

Now, the Secretary of HHS shows us how to sneeze.  A band-aid and a mother’s kiss was enough for cut fingers, bruised knees and elbows from bicycle falls.  Now, the kid had better wear the helmet, elbow and knee pads too.  A good encouraging bawling out from dad worked to cure the I can’t do it syndrome.  Now, a psychologist is called and a drug is administered.

How in the world did the people of old time ever get passed the rocky mountains to settle the coasts of California without environmentalists going before them?  Or, a safety czar inspecting the wagon wheels?  How did they manage without a food and health czar to monitor the eating habits along the way? 

How was a bridge built over the Mississippi river without all of the bureaucratic red tape proceeding the way making sure the workers wore their yellow safety helmets?  Had each of them read the warning labels?  If the educational excellence continues to slide downward, then at a future time, the ability to read will be limited to the ruling class. 

Yes, America has gone from self-sufficiency to dependency.

Will Americans silently welcome tyranny?

How dare Obama say a word against the spending of the Bush administration to fight the war against Islamic terrorism in Iraq.  How dare he.  What gives with this President? 

As a candidate for president, Barack Obama decried the financial toll that the Iraq war was taking on the economy, but Obama’s proposed spending on welfare through 2010 will eclipse Bush’s war spending by more than $260 billion.  CNSNews.com

Just that stimulus package ($787 billion) of last year was financially larger than the war in Iraq ($622 billion).  The federal debt is now at the $12.3 trillion mark, climbing at a rate of $3.8 billion per day.  Each one of us (307 million) is responsible for $10 per day as the feds increase the debt to a strangle hold on future generations of Americans. 

You would think that as huge as the federal government is (2 million employees), that they could find a way to save $10 a day for each of us taxpayers. 

Printing of Obama’s upcoming budget will require 300 Government Printing Office employees to work around the clock to produce the document.

• The budget itself will run 186 pages. The full four-volume set, including the appendix, analytical perspectives and historical tables, totals 2,450 pages.

• GPO will produce 30,968 total copies of the four volumes.   The Federal Eye

Then, who’s going to read it?  Who’s going to translate it to the heads of the agencies?  Will anyone really abide by it?

Back when Obama was a senator he did not use a teleprompter to read what an aide wrote, so it was Obama as himself.

“Because of the Bush-McCain policies, our debt has ballooned,” then-Sen. Barack Obama told a Charleston, W.V., crowd in March 2008. “This is creating problems in our fragile economy. And that kind of debt also places an unfair burden on our children and grandchildren, who will have to repay it.”

We don’t really need representatives anymore as the federal agencies, including the Executive office and Congress run on their own inertia, spending money like there is no tomorrow, like the
Biblical end of time is coming tomorrow.

Like a mother protecting her wayward baby, the mainstream media (ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, Time, Newsweek, USA Today, and the New York Times to name just a few mama’s) have been neglecting to tell all.   They kept the negative under the covers.  The heads of the networks must have thought that these stories are fabrications fabricated by that evil vast right-wing conspiracy, as Obama is sort of a god, so don’t send an investigative journalist to did out the truth.  The public will be better off not knowing some things.  We want our man to look good. 

That’s our trusted MSM for you.  Yea, sure, I trust the neighbors cat to stay in her own yard too.

Instead of acting as government watchdogs holding the people in power accountable, the nation’s broadcast news networks deliberately suppressed and de facto censored embarrassing scoops – at least until President Obama or Congress took action and made them impossible to ignore.  Media Research Center has the facts.

The stories that the MSM neglected to cover are:

1. Van Jones

2. ACORN

3. Obama’s Aide and Mao

4. Climategate

Only 4?  Oh, come on, there has to be more stories detrimental to the Obama administration that these major networks did not deem worthy enough to investigate.   These networks have reporters just itching to get behind the scenes and find the dirt under the rug, the goofy immoral relationships, the hair raising tales of midnight rides, the long lost term paper from the freshman year at Rotten U. and what secrets might have been told while downing Bud Lights. 

How many reporters were sent to turn over every rug in Obama’s past relationships?

The MSM is loosing.

What is economic freedom? 

Economic freedom is the fundamental right of every human to control his or her own labor and property. In an economically free society, individuals are free to work, produce, consume, and invest in any way they please, with that freedom both protected by the state and unconstrained by the state. In economically free societies, governments allow labor, capital and goods to move freely, and refrain from coercion or constraint of liberty beyond the extent necessary to protect and maintain liberty itself.  Heritage Foundation.

These United States of America is no longer considered free as can be.   What?  How can that be?  Compared to the other countries of the world the US has always been considered the freest of the free.  How do you think we’ve arrived at our level of unprecedented prosperity?  This is America.  People from all over the globe will do just about anything to emigrate here, legally and illegally to gain economic freedom.

Adam Smith is credited with the economic theory of prosperity: “When institutions protect the liberty of individuals, greater prosperity results for all.”  Let me paraphrase that.  When government (politicians and bureaucrats) at all levels (city, state and federal) spend their time and efforts protecting the inherent liberties of the people, (rather than furthering the governmental intrusions upon the peoples free choices through coercive regulations upon their liberties, and thus strengthening the power of government entities), then the people will gain a greater degree of individual prosperity because of their economic freedom to do so.

The Heritage Foundation has the latest research in the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom report listing the US as number 8, dropping 2.7 points over last year to be 2.4 points behind Canada.  Hong Kong has the greatest amount of governmental protection for individual liberties rated at 89.7, 11.7 points above the US.   So, this past year we have seen less protection by the government for our individual liberties.   They have destroyed some protections.

How did all this happen?   What freedoms have Americans seen slip away this past year?

Do yourself a favor and jump right into the report, read the definitions and the methodology that was used.  Read how other countries are doing.

A few of the side reports are interesting reads also, like this one about the failures of public schooling.  Private vs. public schooling in Nigeria.

It is possibly the last place where you would expect to witness an educational revolution taking place, but that is precisely
what is happening. In Makoko—as in other poor communities around the developing world—parents are abandoning public education en masse, disturbed by its low quality, and educational entrepreneurs are setting up private schools to cater to this demand.  These private schools, it turns out, whatever their appearances might suggest, are of higher
quality than the public alternative, achieving higher standards at a fraction of the cost of public education. Their existence provides a neat grassroots solution to the problem that
so perplexes development experts: how to achieve universal basic education—the United Nations Millennium Summit development goal of “education for all”—by 2015.  Link.

And what does our federal government do in DC to the children wanting a better education than that provided by the public school system?   Congress shuts down the taxpayer-funded vouchers that enable students from low-income families in the District of Columbia to attend private schools.   1700 kids would have to return to the public school system.  Why?   Congress says it’s the money, unaccountability and no proof the education is better.  $7,650,000 for the vouchers is chicken feed when that same congress pledges hundreds of millions coercing people to buy a new car and then the programs actual cost was 3 billion.   

It appears congress needs to get an economic education.  Let’s see, the cost to send 535 members of our congress to be re-educated through the Makoko Nigerian private school program would be $63,000.  One heck of a good deal.

That’s just one tiny example of how our individual freedoms have been eroded by the actions of the government causing the US to drop even further in the index of economic freedom.  

OK, Haiti was hit by an earthquake, but why the devastation to so many people?  Why did the houses fall like toothpicks?

Haiti, a nation of 9 million people in an area smaller than our State of Maryland, less than a thousand miles off the coast of Florida and a bit under a hundred miles from Cuba has been a nation of continual turmoil throughout it’s history.  Why?

Haiti gained its freedom from France about the same time the US separated from Britain.  But from then on the the US has prospered beyond anyone’s imagination, and Haiti remains as one of the poorest.

The constitution of Haiti was molded after our own with 3 separate branches of government, a republic with elected officials.   What happened?  The principle worked for us.  Why has Haiti remained destitute?

The constitution of Haiti has been changed dozens of times at the will of the Haitian leaders, acting more like authoritarian figures than elected officials responsible to the people.  Haiti is known for it’s political corruption, the officials using the people to enrich themselves.

Throughout the history of the US, our elected officials have respected the constitution and the rule of law, who for the most part have subjected themselves to the higher authority of the constitution.  Not so in Haiti.

Haiti has a GDP of $791 compared to the US GDP of $14,441,425?   Bordering Haiti is the Dominican Republic with a GDP of $5,082.   How come?  What’s the difference?  We’re less than a thousand physical miles apart, but we’ve grown $14 million apart.

This difference is due chiefly to Americans’ greater wealth. With one of the freest economies in the world, Americans build stronger homes and buildings, and have better health-care and better search and rescue equipment. In contrast, burdened by one of the world’s least-free economies, Haitians cannot afford to build sturdy structures. Nor can they afford the health-care and emergency equipment that we take for granted here in the U.S.  Dear Washington Post.

What a difference freedom makes.  The people of Haiti deserve the kind of economic (and political ) freedom that we here in the states have had.  How will they get it?   Is it politically possible?   Throwing billions of aid money will not help Haiti in the long run.

The people of Haiti need their freedom.  When the people of Haiti are given the right to own property, to accumulate wealth, to build companies like Home Depot, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, Taco Bell, from scratch.  To operate and build grocery chains along with privately owned plumbing and electrical companies, then Haiti will see changes.  When the government builds the roads, the water and sewer lines, the electrical grids and provides a police force to maintain civil order, operate fire stations and court houses and respect and honor the rights of the people, then Haiti will see changes.  Education must be provided to the masses.  Private hospitals will spring up.  Doctors and specialists will rise out of their own ranks.  Housing will improve.  Sports stadiums will be built and the people will prosper.

Has anyone looked for oil deposits off the coast of Haiti?  Has any geologists looked in those hills for signs of coal?

Haiti cannot be fixed for the benefit of the people by throwing billions of aid dollars to the politicians.  It’ll take generations of Haitians themselves insisting that their personal freedoms must be first and foremost and that the politicians remain accountable to the people.

Sadly, we are seeing a political bureaucratic class here in America who are getting more and more authoritarian with less and less of a respect for the rights and freedoms of the people.  Our own constitution is known as “living,” bendable to the whims of judges, politicians and bureaucrats.  Their attitude has become that of “we know best what’s good for you”.

Future generations of Haitians could be sending aid money to the US.

We’ve been told many times that the religion of Islam is a religion of peace. The Nations of the west don’t believe it. Israel does not believe it. We’ve both experienced the opposite. Muslims themselves say they can’t live next door to Jews or Christians. Our latest “violent extremist” radical Muslim was caught with his britches on fire. Another radical Muslim successfully used a kitchen knife on his Bingham University professor.

It’s been an on going struggle from the beginning of time and will go on to eternity.

There is a local restaurant nearby where I’ve been a customer for over 20 years that serves good home-style meals at a reasonable price. A restaurant, by the way, that is owned and managed by a Muslim. His wife is often in the place dressed in the usual female Muslim garb, her hair covered along with her ankles. He and his family appear to be practicing a peaceful Islam, while enjoying our American ways.

On the peaceful Muslim side a lone voice in his wilderness speaks up.

This Muslim is a lone ranger riding the bull, or is he spreading a bunch of bull. As it now stands, I can smell the bull and I hope I don’t slip and fall into his crap. But it sounds good, it sounds edible. It really does.

After a decade of having watched our conflict morph, he says, from a thorny Arab-Israeli problem to a seemingly unsolvable Muslim-Jewish one, Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, the director of the Italian Muslim Assembly and an outspoken critic of Islamic fanaticism and terrorism, has once again come here with a message of hope: Peace is possible between Islam and Judaism, between Israel and the Muslim world based on the Koran and the traditional Muslim sources. More . . .

But then the terrorizing continues. . . As they have done for generations.

Palazzi says that Israel has the Devine right to exist where it now is. “. . . there is nothing in Islamic law that prohibits non-Muslims from the Temple Mount; Israel must assert its rights there. “Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel, yet Israeli Jews are not allowed to walk freely on the Mount in their own city. Israeli sovereignty of the most important part of Jerusalem is in name only.”

But then we read out of Jihad Watch Report: “Surprise, surprise: “moderate” Muslim TV channel in UK linked to jihadist cleric al-Awlaki”

Our western leaders take the Islamic side and insist that Israel must back down.

Israel wants their rights to their land.

This Muslim leader says Israel must not retreat.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.

From here to eternity, Islam and the infidels (that’s us) will be struggling to find peace. Their peace is the absence of us.  Our peace is a good meal at a reasonable price.

Has our current Congress put their politics above providing an opportunity for thousands of DC children to get a decent education?

Well Duh. . . !

Congress did not re-authorize the $13 million funding for the  Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) in the 2010-11 federal budget.  Was Congress considering that money was tight in light of the stimulus packages, the bail outs, and the clunkers stuff, and so to make up a itsy bitsy tiny bit for it, they put it to the disadvantaged kids?

(CNSNews.com) – Black leaders say that President Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, and Congress have put politics ahead of helping low-income children in the District of Columbia by refusing to support a program that allows 1,700 children to go to a private school, including the school Obama’s two daughters attend.  Read on . . .

Let’s ponder a moment as to who, what organizations could have possibly pushed congress to un-fund the Scholarship program?

The NEA?

The Unions?

Members of congress who don’t want their kids associating with the disadvantaged?

Czar Anne Duncan?

An Upper New York State newspaper has found another twist buried in the fine print of the Health Care legislation.  According to the Waterford Times, there is a religious conscience exemption included in the Reid/Pelosi bill, the part that says you must purchase Health Insurance or pay a fine.

Hundreds of Amish families in the region are likely to be free from that requirement.

The Amish, as well as some other religious sects, are covered by a "religious conscience" exemption, which allows people with religious objections to insurance to opt out of the mandate. It is in both the House and Senate versions of the bill, making its appearance in the final version routine unless there are last-minute objections.  Read on . . .

The article mentions that the Christian Scientist lobby was able to get this provision inserted into the bill.   The article mentions the CS’s being included for the exemption, but not Baptist Christians, Presbyterian, Lutherans, Evangelical non-denominational or Roman Catholics either.  Mormons?  Would Muslims be exempt?  Hindus?  Would the Vicca satanists  be able to claim the religious exemption.  Atheists? 

Another thought.  Now that Global Warming (Climate Change) has been named as a religion, would those environmentalists be able to get the courts to agree and grant them all that exemption?

The article does ask if businesses run by the Amish would be exempt?

This is what happens when Central Planners try to organize over 300 million people.  Confusion.  Unintended Consequences.  Unfairness. Economic disaster. 

This 2048 page bill can not lock up all the loopholes, nor could a 250,000 page bill. 

Cast it all aside and throw it back to the FREE market.