What could be a great start for the new year

The people are rioting in Iran, the largest instigator of terrorism in the world. Iran is within a year of developing nuclear weapons and threatening every civilized nation in the region (as well as the others). And President O is still wanting to make a deal with the lunatics in charge instead of making it clear that we support freedom for the Iranian people and will do whatever we can to help them. Is he afraid the Mullahs will hate us? Too late, don’t you think.

Guess what we got for Christmas

We got a down payment on yet another unfunded mandate. It’s kind of like my mom who used to always give us gloves (it’s really cold in Phoenix, ya know) except this is more like getting one glove so it can be worn like Michael Jackson. I hate standing in those return lines but this gift is worse than useless. It’s a “free” months rent after signing a lifetime lease at the Biltmore. See yall in line!

I don’t think that most people even understand that much of the cost of this thing is placed on the states. You know, those local governments that are going insolvent. Like all governments, they create nothing, so it means either cutting other services or raising taxes. But this is how the game is played, a group of politicians (usually Democrats) passes something so they can say that they are for the “little guy” and then the others (usually Republicans) gets to be the bad guys and try to take it away or defund it because it can’t be paid for. Think of it as mom with a credit card and dad with a job. Mom is loved because she is '”caring” and dad is reviled because he is a tightwad.

Maybe it will sink in when the kids find themselves living in the street.

Lessons from the wreckage

As the smoke clears from the crash of AGW it is important to understand there are forces that will always attempt to harness the fears of people. We have all lived through several of these manipulations (swine flu, bird flu, mad cow, Y2K, 2012, global warming/cooling, gas shortages, peak oil, guilt, asteroids, hemorrhoids ...) so it is time to start paying attention or we will become slaves of our so-called protectors.

Understand that there are interests (political, religious, business) that want power and money. Any time it is demanded that you give up some of your freedom or money red flags should start to fly.

How can you Americans put up with this stuff?

The other day my wife had a baby shower for a lady who had immigrated from Poland several years back. I asked her how she liked it here and she mentioned that her husband, who is an engineer, was disgusted with all of the laws and rules. How ironic that people from a former communist country notice our suppression but apparently many of us don’t.

It seems that the left has found the perfect guise for totalitarianism. They just want to protect us from …. everything. Our light bulbs, cars, the toys our kids play with, what we put into or or on our bodies, whether or not we buy health insurance, even what we think. With a gun to our heads they will get what they want regardless of our silly outdated constitution.

If you think they were shocked by the governors elections in Virginia and New Jersey wait till they experience November 2010. There will be red from one coast to the other. We’ll have to repeal the damage they have done and are in the process of doing. There isn’t any money for this insanity.

Obama: “Precipice” of a deal

high cliff or crag: a high, vertical, or very steep rock face

• - dangerous state: a very dangerous situation

Does he have a way with words or not? I’m so glad we have an articulate President!

Déjà vu all over again

 

1974 CIA Report on imminent ice age. We are reliving all of those Saturday morning science fiction movies.

Measure it with a micrometer ….

We used to joke about how sensitive our test equipment (inertial navigation system) was back in the Air Force.  “We measure it with a micrometer, mark it with a piece of chalk, and cut it with an axe.” In the world of “climate change” it is exactly the opposite. We chop it with an axe (tree rings), mark it with a piece of chalk (guess), then measure it with a micrometer and say, “Look we’ve warmed a half degree!!! Oh no!!!”. Good grief.

Bias by silence

Most bias found in the alphabet news is not caused by a particular slant, it is often by the decision that it just isn’t news. “Climategate” is a perfect example.

12 Days, 3 Networks and No Mention of ClimateGate Scandal
Even as Copenhagen looms, broadcast news ignores e-mails suggesting warming alarmists 'manipulated' data, conspired to destroy information and thwarted peer reviews.
By Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
12/2/2009 2:01:37 PM

It’s been nearly two weeks since a scandal shook many people’s faith in the scientists behind global warming alarmism. The scandal forced the University of East Anglia (UK) to divulge that it threw away raw temperature data and prompted the temporary resignation of Phil Jones of the university’s Climate Research Unit.

Despite that resignation and calls by a U.S. senator to investigate the matter, ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programming has remained silent – not mentioning a word about the scandal since it broke on Nov. 20, even as world leaders including President Barack Obama prepare to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark next week to promote a pact to reduce greenhouse gases.

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