Clearing the air for Health care

The ground had barely stopped shaking on the island nation of Haiti before relief and support from around the world, but especially from the ever philanthropic United States citizenry, began pouring in like a tsunami. Politicians, with their hurricane force winds of hot air are expressing an appropriate amount of sympathy while posturing to garner additional points in re-election polls commensurate with their promised level of government assistance.

Following the advice of Rohm Emmanuel, no one it seems is willing to let this crisis go to waste. While legitimate fund raising is going on, thieves and con artists are raining a typhoon of scams down upon the big of heart and small of mind who want to help but don't realize most charities wouldn't use a long lost Facebook buddy to ask on their behalf. The not so Reverend Pat Robertson set off a tornado of controversy with his ill timed and absolutely cruel comments. His mouth should be washed out with Holy Water. Even the global warming, sorry global climate change, nuts have taken the Glovers off in an effort to stop their recent drought of support.


Actor Danny Glover provides yet another example of why those who make a living portraying other people should never be allowed to speak in public unless they've been handed a script and there is a bearded guy in a baseball cap sitting close by in a folding chair ready to yell "cut" the second they lose focus. Let's hope George's teleprompter has enough battery to make it through an entire telethon lest we be subject to extemporaneous Hollywood banter. Thankfully, the majority of Haitians won't be watching. They've suffered enough.

Not to be outdone by the generosity of the evil empire to the north, Fidel Castro wheezed orders from his permanent deathbed to temporarily rescind the no fly rules over Cuba to allow American relief planes to more quickly ferry victims from the poverty stricken island 90 miles to the south to modern medical facilities 90 miles to the north. It is compassion like this that puts you in the running for an elusive and difficult to win Nobel Peace Prize. Look out President Obama, your likely back to back victory is in danger.

I shouldn't make light of the grandiose offering by Cuba. Having to fly around the island adds an hour and a half to what could be a critical situation. I just wonder why we'd even ask permission. We should just fly over. I mean, by the time the pilots in the Cuban air force put down their Havana's and wind up the single prop, the patient would be in the recovery room. What I should question is the need for us to fly over the country at all?

Haiti, as mentioned, lies but 90 miles from Cuba's white sand beaches crowded with topless Canadians and Americans claiming to be Canadian who would be topless but can't commit to being as faux European as our neighbors to the north. So why don't we take those needing emergency medical treatment to this much closer bastion of medical science? Michael Moore, another of the modern liberal intelligentsia, in his highly fictionalized documentary Sicko showed us the modern, well stocked and pristine hospitals that only a government, a socialist one at that, can run. So why force critical patients to endure a flight twice as long as it needs to be? You'd think Fidel would be happy to nurse back to health some able bodied Haitians to replace the flood (whew, worked in one more natural disaster) of able bodied Cubans paddling to the Keys for a chance at a someday receiving socialized medicine here in Obama's America. The American health care system, if you've listened to the rhetoric from the very light skinned thin guy from Nevada recently, is crumbling faster than a Swedish clinic's floor under the weight of a Weight Watchers group meeting. So why are we going to further traumatize the poor Haitians by bringing them here? We can't even dispense pain pills right.

Am I as guilty of politicizing for the sake of possible persuasion, the suffering of a people who've already suffered under an oppressive government in Haiti as those whose motives I disdain? Perhaps. I don't mean to. Natural disasters have a way of exposing frailty in social structure as much as they do a frailty in infrastructure. We are still in a position in the United States to offer unparalleled assistance when tragedy strikes around the world. We are in this position because we've build an infrastructure on solid foundations and and economy and society on the foundations laid by our fore fathers. We are on the verge of experiencing a tectonic shift of monumental proportion with the passage of government run health care and even more social spending bills. If we aren't careful, we might be asking Cuba for permission to fly over on our way to greener climes of our own.

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Ice, ice baby

While The ONE and Mrs The ONE were enjoying a taxpayer funded tryst in the Big Apple, GM lawyers were preparing for the mother of all bankruptcy filings and nut job provided abortion foes with fodder for continuing on their death march through a heinous act of violence that, rightfully, is being condemned by Pro-Life groups everywhere.

Rhetoric everywhere is heating up. North Korea is doing sales demonstrations of its nuclear capacity and the whack job in Iran is only outspoken, in quantity, by Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. It is getting so hot is it any wonder the Arctic Sea ice is melting? Well, I've bad news for global climate change devotees everywhere. A video on You Tube seems to refute the "the poor Polar Bear is losing its home" argument.



Check out the creator's (film maker just didn't seem appropriate) comments here.

I still fail to see how the climate change debate is over. I suppose it is only over because the cowards on the warming side of the argument continue to avoid debate. I guess showing up in front of people with disagreeing viewpoints doesn't seem safe.

In a separate train of thought, my sympathies go out to the family of late term abortion doctor Tiller. However I find it interesting the government is now guarding other abortion doctors (on our dime) but the Marines are left to take care of their own. Fortunately, the Marines are more than capable of that.

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These guys are taking over the world?

It seems Google is everywhere. In fact, nobody "searches" the internet, they Google things! The environmentalist billionaires who run the company have their own corporate jumbo jet tricked out with the latest in high tech toys.

Not content with simply buying carbon offsets (SCAM!)to assuage their globe trotting guilt, the folks over at Google are doing their part to help the Earth by wrangling up 200 goats to trim the lawn at corporate headquarters.

I know this sounds far fetched but it has to be a true story. Just Google it if you don't believe me. Or head over to Google's official blog.

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It's not over until the fat man debates

A lot of coverage in the media today is being given to former eight year Vice-President, and eight minute President, Al Gore. The chubby guy, who was but a heartbeat away from the Presidency, is now giving heart palpitations to a growing number of scientists and "man caused global warming" skeptics the world over.

For years Mr. Gore has been saying the debate about Global Climate Change (note the change in terminology) is over. Well as Sylvester Stallone, as the scholar John Rambo, once shouted, "Nothing is over!" Hell, the debate never began.

Al Gore has been ducking debate since before the release of the very erroneous An Inconvenient Truth. The Nobel Prize winner is being anything but noble in his zeal to push forward an implementation of climate policies that promise to wreak havoc on the global economy. The only cooling these regulations, taxes and schemes will cause is a cooling of the engines of capitalism.

Newt Gingrich did an admirable job pointing out some of the foibles and inconsistencies in Gore's little presentation this morning. Unfortunately, Newt was a last minute substitute. The first round draft pick was the UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Lord Monckton had been asked by Republican Congressman Joe Barton to offer a rebuttle to the incorrect facts pulled from the former VP's butt. Unfortunately, the leaders of the House Democrats refused to let Lord Monckton speak and decided to inform him when his plane landed in Washington. You'd think they would have wanted to save all that carbon from being burned and told him, the polite way, before he made the trip.

My friends, the hysteria around Global Warming and the push to enact legislation based on false science, misinterpreted data and outright lies by the Green crowd is bordering on the criminal. It is well past time for us, right thinking and informed Americans, to push back against this tide.

We should start by forcing a very public debate between Mr. Gore and a renowned person from the other side. There are several who would do wonders. They probably don't even have to be from the A team. A second rate debater with a bit of information and common sense would do well against Al Gore and his debate strategies of talking down to people and sighing.

Inform yourself. Then inform your neighbor. Look at these and have your eyes opened:

The recently launched Climate Depot.

The Australian.

A great look at Earth Day predictions from 1970.

A look at the kind of ideas that Earth saving minds come up with.

It is a slippery slope as Green will be the new Pink

I feel for the DHS classified Right Wing Extremest Tea Party attendees in the Salt Lake area tomorrow. The mountains above our beautiful city are expected to get another two feet of global climate change induced snowfall. This skiable precipitation will be nothing but a cold wet rain in the valley. I suppose the inclement weather will limit attendance of the event to the truly faithful and keep the riff raff to a minimum. I will be doing the 450 mile carbon burning commute to Las Vegas for the day so my attendance will be only in spirit. To those of you going I say carry on and carry an umbrella.

The spring snowfall turns my thoughts to global warming and the manufactured hysteria around this false, anti-capitalist movement. Summer will soon be here along with the warm temperatures we normally have. Heat waves will spawn the usual newspaper and internet headlines of rising sea levels, melting ice caps and mankind's imminent demise.

The "green" movement, having reached the highest levels of our government has inspired a stimulus package filled with incentives for energy saving jobs, energy saving technologies and alternative energy research. The incentives promise us a better tomorrow and a cleaner planet. Unfortunately, a recently released study indicates the move to "greener" jobs will lead to a bitter tomorrow and emptier parking lots at companies. The unemployed who are now training for "green collar" jobs should be prepared to be back in training very soon as their new job will lead to less jobs overall.

Recently, President Obama's Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, said that the amount of "developable" wind power off the East Coast could produce more energy than all of the coal-fired electric plants in the United States. According to FactCheck.org this statement is full of a bit of globally warmed hot air.

In theory there is enough offshore wind to generate far more electricity than coal plants do. Right now the United States has a total of zero offshore wind farms and, assuming the Kennedys and their Portuguese water dog walking friends in Hyannis Port aren't the only "not in my back yard" citizens on the East Coast, that number likely won't grow to the 3,600 farms it is estimated will be needed to harness and produce enough electricity to replace coal in the near future. To put that number in perspective, we are talking about land based farms that will cover an area the size of the state of Rhode Island.

In an example of how cannibals eat their own, the environmentalist group, Friends of the Earth, have stated that their fellow tree huggers favorite pump product, Biofuels, is producing twice the amount of carbon emissions of the gasoline they are made to replace. As one (most likely) ponytail clad vegetarian member of the group stated, "Trying to cut emissions by adding biofuels to petrol is like trying to cut down on beer by lacing your pints with vodka". I'll agree with him on that point; these green groups drive me to drink, but only in hybrids.

Most disturbing in this age where new coal, oil or nuclear plants are as welcome as Caroline Kennedy at the Vatican, a study of the effects on employment of public monies spent on renewable energy sources in Spain has just been released. In speeches, our President Obama has pointed to the bull running homeland as a solar powered shining example of a green move toward alternative energy. I will admit I haven't read the entire 51 page report but I did gleam this from the executive summary:

"... while it is not possible to directly translate Spain’s experience with
exactitude to claim that the U.S. would lose at least 6.6 million to 11 million
jobs, as a direct consequence were it to actually create 3 to 5 million “green
jobs” as promised (in addition to the jobs lost due to the opportunity cost of
private capital employed in renewable energy), the study clearly reveals the
tendency that the U.S. should expect such an outcome."

What that means in English and Austrian is the expansion of and investment in green jobs actually has a net negative effect. According to the study, Spain spent over 570,000 Euros to create each "green job", including subsidies of more than 1 million Euros per wind industry job. The study cautions against green energy mandates. Duh!

Tomorrow (today for most of you) there will be an estimated 2,000 protest Tea Parties around this great carbon producing country of ours. The numbers in attendance should dwarf those of any recent Earth Day celebrations. Despite this turnout, these parties will be belittled, discounted and made fun of. The attacks have already started on left leaning internet sites and MSNBC. It amazes me that, in the face of overwhelming impact, the mainstream media can ignore this movement while, in the face of underwhelming and often made up "facts", they support the global climate change crowd. Tomorrow, I can hope, will be the tipping point in the economic battle and this will lead to additional victory on the warming front.

While taking back our government, let us also remember, we need to take back our planet.

If you get a chance, pick up a copy of the newly released book "Heaven and Earth" by Ian Plimer. Heaven and Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy inspired by the likes of Mr Offset himself, Al Gore. In fact, help the economy, buy two copies and give one to a friend; preferable a liberal one.

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Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense

Reading headlines today I had to check the calendar a few times to make sure it was not still April 1. I wish it still was because, without the hope that what is being reported is really an attempt at a prank, I am left only to assume those in our government really do think we are stupid.

I've seen the video of President Obama not bowing before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G-20 meeting in London. Well, according to a nameless White House staffer, one of the 500 in the Pres' European posse,

"It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah,".

If that is the case, I have to wonder who's hand that is rising from Obama's side after straightens his waist. I know he and his administration seem to have their hands in to so many aspects of our daily lives that is seems they are blessed with more than a humanly count of two hands.

Those of you think this is a conservative built mountain erupting like an Alaskan volcano that could blast Obama particles skyward (see below) need to realize this is an example of the First African American President of the United States being able to produce yet another faux pas without being called on it in the fawning mainstream media.

Following the anonymous staffer's logic, the President should have been almost on the floor to perform a two handed shake with the Ewok sized Queen of England. Let's go to the tape and see how far he had to bend to shake her hand:


It seems the President's knowledge of bowing etiquette is right in line with his gift giving prowess and mastery of Austrian as a second language. I am thinking the President studied science at the same place as these other subjects. In an effort to curb global warming, The ONE is exploring a plan to shoot pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays and cool the Earth.

The fact that there has been no warming in the past 10 years notwithstanding, isn't pollution (like those particles being launched) one of the things blamed for the supposed warming? The author of Audacity of Hope seems to be quite audacious in his opinion that mankind, sorry personkind, can control nature with what would be a parlor trick akin to making hand shadows on the wall from a table lamp's light.

The plan to stop global warming could be like a cold shower to the maker of the Kyoto Box Oven. This aluminum foil covered cardboard box won the "inventor" of the box around $100,000. I wonder if he is going to reinvest some of this bounty in to developing the Magnifying Glass Microwave?

I wish I could make these things up but I guess truth is stranger than fiction.

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It is one of the 57 seven states

I missed the online Town Hall meeting held by The ONE today as, unlike many of those who seem to attend these types of events, I have a job. I haven't had a chance to check out any online replays but I did see a few of the questions. I am afraid that we have reached the tipping point. Why is every question asked of a government official these days centered around what the government is going to do for us. I've news for you folks, it isn't what the government does for us, it is what it does to us.

It does seem like the First African American President of the United States, along with his teleprompter, is everywhere these days. I doubt there is a sole left in our 57 states who hasn't seen him on Jay Leno, 60 Minutes, You Tube and I think I saw him in a cameo in the movie the Watchmen a few weeks ago. He was the one with all the super powers.

I guess when you are a former community organizer, part time Senator and expert on everything, you should be public in your views. Face it, what hasn't The ONE spoken about publicly? I will give you one thing.

In North Dakota, people are working feverishly to protect their belongings and homes from the rising waters of the Red River. It must be Global Warming, sorry make that Global Climate Change, creating automobile size ice chunks that are blocking the river on its northerly trip in to Canada. Or, perhaps, the Canadians think the river is a British activist MP and are denying it entry. Either way, the situation is severe.

Surprisingly, The ONE, just like he ignored the frozen, toothless, inbred hicks in Kentucky a few months ago when more Global Warming caused storms put out the power across the state making Hillcicles out of the country folk not lucky enough to have struck oil while hunting for food and had moved to 'Beverly, has ignored the goings on in Canada's basement.

He did declare a state of emergency. This is good as it frees up government assistance more quickly. But, face it, emergencies are declared nationwide at the first sign of a high wind or when polls begin to falter. And Barack Obama would never pass up an opportunity to increase government spending. Would he?

The fine, hard working citizens up in fly over country should be in our thoughts and our prayers. So far, their work is paying off but Mother Nature can be, well, a mother and it is but a matter of time until the levy breaks. Whether you agree with his policies or not, The ONE is our President. A word of encouragement on behalf of the country to those who, at this moment, probably feel as alone and helpless as an environmentalist on his way to the North Pole to show the effects of global warming stuck, without food, in a blizzard.

Perhaps someone can put a few well wishes in to the teleprompter for you.

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The synergistic job saving ability of the stimulus package

No wonder Barack and Michelle had to get out of the White House for a while yesterday. Two whole weeks of hard work and we Americans still don't get it. The approval ratings for the spendalooza stimulus package is now hovering around 30%. This is down from 50% just a few short weeks ago. Perhaps if they add a few more hiking trails, disc golf courses and condom programs to the bill more people will be for it. Just keep the money from those religious nuts! They better do something, The ONE has said if it doesn't get passed soon...well...umm...he might be a one term president!

According to our deer in the headlights Speaker of the House, every month that passes before the package is passed will see 500,000,000 Americans lose their jobs! Considering the total population of our country is around 300,000,000 that is some serious consequence! Her figures must include the millions of illegal aliens and their several jobs each.



The defeatist in me says, "Why even bother?" Global Warming is going to have us all starving to death soon no matter what we do. Chu on this if you don't believe me.

Wear your mullet long enough and it might come back in style.

It amazes me how out of touch our leaders are. It seems every initiative, every bill, every speech and every waking moment of our esteemed politicians in Washington has something to do with saving the planet from Global Climate Change or going "Green".You will note the I wrote Climate Change and not Global Warming. The recent spat of cold weather, recent as in the past ten years, has somewhat changed the tune of the single minded climate fanatics.

Take a look at the chart to the right. This Pew Research Council study shows more regular folk care about who is paying the toll for the trips politicians are taking on private jets to the warm climate of the Caribbean than the toll those jets are taking on the Caribbean's climate.

It surprises me that the party currently in charge, the Democrats, are the ones supposedly in touch with the hopes, cares and feelings of the electorate.



They have invited the completely out of touch with society but completely "touched" in the head Al Gore to testify next week on Global Climate Change. The Republicans, the out of touch ones according to the media, are likely to be less hysterical about this subject. Look again at the chart above then look at the one to the left and tell me who is in line with America.

Yeah, that is what I thought too.

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The Reds have gone Green and the results are something that is usually colored "brown"! And it stinks

From the "Actions speak louder than words" file I bring you two links which speak in Spinal Tap like volume about the true nature of the "Green Movement" here in the United States. Spinal Tap was louder than any other rock band in history because where most group's amplifiers went to 10, their's went to 11!

We on the right have long expressed concern that the goals of the environmental crowd were not solely to protect the planet but to curtail capitalist activity in all forms. In this time of record breaking cold weather, my frozen pudding is so full of proof in these two links that I think Jello needs to make a new flavor: Sour grape tree hugger.

In a few short days, all the world's problems will be solved when PEBO is inaugurated. Our problems may just be beginning. The road to personal restrictions is paved with environmental protections. Oh, and there are only HOV and bicycle lanes.

Read here and here! Don't say I didn't warn you.

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A bright future? I don't really see it.

I was up working late, again, last night and I found myself squinting more and more while trying to read the words on the laptop screen. I initially blamed my clouded vision on the fact that, in the past few days, I've had about as much sleep as a long haul trucker hauling energy drinks and coffee beans on a three day coast to coast trip who is sampling his freight and swallowing copious amounts of "Speedballs". I then feared it was middle age manifesting itself through the shortening of my arms, which in turn had changed the relation between my head and the screen causing the entrenched focal length of my eyes to become out of whack. After all, the past few years have gone by faster than the miles which roll under the aforementioned trucker's semi on a newly paved interstate highway somewhere other than formerly pothole laden Pennsylvania. Thankfully, I was wrong in both these suppositions.

A quick peek under the lampshade of the light to my right revealed the source of my visual frustration. The hotel had installed energy saving, environmentally pure and agonizingly dim compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). These electronically charged spirals were putting out about as much candlepower as the prayer offering candles at an atheist's altar. Having identified the source I relaxed as, after all, I was only going to be in this hotel one more night. Unfortunately, the light bulb of recognition burst when it became apparent these CFLs are the wave of the future thanks to the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Signed in to law December 19, 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is an omnibus energy policy law that consists mainly of provisions designed to increase energy efficiency and the availability of renewable energy. If you ask me, in many ways this omnibus bill misses the boat.

Items addressed in this law include increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards, Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and the current darkened cloud over my desk, Appliance and Lighting Efficiency Standards. Check out some of these not so bright ideas. According to a National Center for Policy Analysis review of the law, under the new standards:

* 100-watt light bulbs are banned entirely in 2012.
* 70-watt light bulbs will have to be 36 percent to 136 percent more efficient.
* 50-watt bulbs must be 50 percent to 112 percent more efficient.
* 40-watt bulbs will have to improve 50 percent to 110 percent.

Incandescent bulbs cannot meet these new standards absent a significant technological breakthrough and currently there isn't a light at the end of the tunnel heralding this. Thus, the common light bulb will soon be extinct.

For all their hype, CFLs are a poor substitute. Not only will they foster return to the darker ages, the supposed environmental benefits are grossly overestimated. And God forbid little Timmy, unable to see well enough in the low light to avoid it, knocks over the floor lamp at the day care center and breaks one of these toxic filled glass grenades. In addition to spreading shards of glass all over the lead painted toys from China that the center picked from the bargain bin at WalMart, the breached CFL will spread "dangerous" amounts of mercury powder in a cloud of death nearly as fatal a the cloud of death surrounding the dirty diaper bin after a lunch of mashed fruit.

From the same NCPA review:

...when a CFL broke in her daughter’s bedroom, Brandy Bridges of Prospect, Maine, called on the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to make sure she cleaned up the broken glass and mercury powder safely. A specialist found unsafe levels of mercury in the air and recommended an environmental cleanup firm, who estimated the clean up cost of at $2,000. Beause her mother was unable to pay the exorbitant cleaning bill, the girl’s room remained sealed off in plastic for more than a month.

Just like electric cars, windmills and Ed Bagley Jr's bicycle powered toaster, CFLs have not caught on with mainstream consumers. The government is required to force feed what it has deemed is in our best interest. Check out this link to see what the dim whits in Washington have come up with. They've been busy little beavers and this bill contains more ideas than Edison's notebook. I am especially proud that this "energy policy" bill includes provisions for Swimming Pool enclosures to prevent drowning and an extension of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) for another year.

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