Archive for June, 2009
Cap and tax passes in the House
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 26th, 2009
It thoroughly amazes me that in the year 2009 we have people who are supposed to be the brightest and best leaders in the world falling for charletons and psuedo-science. Cap and trade is clearly a bill that has special interests written all over it. NASA just came out with a report, which I had reported here on The Final Prayer, which stated global warming is directly linked to the sun’s solar cycle, not carbon emissions.
This bill is NOT going save the environment from less polution, it is NOT going to cause less carbon emissions, but it WILL kill the economy. Tax, tax, tax, tax, tax that is all these legislatures are willing to do and it is sickening. These people should be lynched.
250 economists petition the massive bailout bills, does anybody listen?No. 30,000+ scientists who have come out on record to petition cap and trade, does anybody listen? No. This really makes me sick to my stomach.
The Republicans voting for Cap and Trade were: Mary Bono Mack (CA), Mike Castle (WA), Mark Steven Kirk (IL), Leonard Lance (NJ), Frank Lobiando (NY), Dave Reichart (WA), Chris Smith (NJ) and John McHugh (NY.) Give them every ounce of hell that they deserve.
I want to write more about this but I am literally so sick to my stomach right now that I can’t. If you want to read more about this issue, here is the article.
WASHINGTON – In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation’s first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy.
The vote was 219-212, capping months of negotiations and days of intense bargaining among Democrats. Republicans were overwhelmingly against the measure, arguing it would destroy jobs in the midst of a recession while burdening consumers with a new tax in the form of higher energy costs.
The House’s action fulfilled Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s vow to clear major energy legislation before July 4, and sent the measure to a highly uncertain fate in the Senate.
McGovernment
Posted by Casey Kelver in Political Cartoons on June 18th, 2009
Billions and Trillions Robbed
Brady opens new front in the fight to shrink the size of government
Posted by Casey Kelver in General on June 18th, 2009
Washington, D.C. – Leading the charge for a return to a smaller, more efficient government, Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX) has opened up a new offensive front in the battle over the ever-increasing size of the federal government. The Sunset Caucus’ mission is to shrink the size of government by eliminating programs, agencies and even entire departments.
“The Administration and the Democrats in Congress are united in digging us into a deep hole that we soon may not be able to get out of,” said Brady. “Today we have fired the first volley in a new offensive on behalf of taxpayers who tell us they’ve had enough.”
However, today’s proposals to eliminate out-of-date, duplicative and wasteful programs are only the beginning of the Caucus’s efforts to cut the waste in Washington. Each member of the new caucus will be filing amendments and bills aimed at removing unnecessary programs from the government dole. Brady’s first target is a cross-cultural program that explores whaling traditions in Alaska, Hawaii and Massachusetts at a cost of $8.75 million per year.
“Propping up various industries with taxpayer money and increasing government spending is not the right path to getting America’s financial house in order,” added Brady. “We owe it to the taxpayers to ensure that ever dime they send to Washington is spent wisely.”
More world leaders advocate “New World Order”
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 18th, 2009
The global financial crisis has reduced the differences between nations and created the opportunity to form a new world order, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday.
Speaking after a meeting with Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev in the Kazakh capital Astana, Lula called on the global community to seize on the crisis to create a fairer world for developing nations.
“I want to say that before the crisis, there were many countries which had greater significance than others, and some countries which had no significance at all,” he said through a translator.
“After the crisis, everyone has become similar. We have the possibility to create a new world order and together we should improve our relations.”
Obama to control ABC?
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 16th, 2009
Story from the Drudge Report claims that ABC will basically be handed over to the government. First the money, then the major industry in the country, and now the media. What is next, your life?
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET
On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!
Highlights on the agenda:
ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.
Been to a tea party? You’ve engaged in terrorism!
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 16th, 2009
So if you’re not already labeled a terrorist for being pro-life, a veteran, pro-Second Amendment, pro-Ron Paul, or just flat out conservative, now you can add going to protests such as the nation wide tea parties to the list.
Defense Department sees protests as terrorism
Antiterrorism training materials used by the Department of Defense teach that public protests should be regarded as “low-level terrorism,” according to a letter of complaint sent to the department by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
“Teaching employees that dissent on issues of public concern is something to be feared, rather than encouraged, is a dangerously counterproductive use of scarce security resources, making us less safe as a democracy,” Northern California ACLU staff attorney Ann Brick and ACLU Washington national security policy counsel Michael German wrote in the letter to Gail McGinn, acting undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness.
“DOD employees cannot accomplish their mission of protecting our nation and its values unless they understand that those values encompass the right to criticize our government through protest activities,” they wrote. “It is imperative that they are taught the difference between political, religious or social activism and terrorism.”
“Conservatives” Are Single-Largest Ideological Group
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 16th, 2009
Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it to a level last seen in 2004. The 21% calling themselves liberal is in line with findings throughout this decade, but is up from the 1990s.
Conservatives make up a wide variety of beliefs. There are classical liberals, traditional conservatives, neo-conservatives, the religious right, and libertarians, all of which consider themselves to be conservative. One is for sure though, most of Obama’s plans and policies are definitely not in line with any of these ideologies.
Democrat Senator cashes in before stock collapse
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 16th, 2009
And Obama keeps blaming Wall St. for everything. Maybe he should look in his own backyard, Washington.
Durbin cashed out during big stock collapse
WASHINGTON | Asset sales came after meeting with Fed, Treasury chiefs
As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
The Illinois senator’s 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth $42,696 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks. The same day, he bought $43,562 worth of Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B stock, the disclosure shows.
Bogus unemployment statistics
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 15th, 2009
I have been talking about this for some time now. Unemployment stats from the government are bogus. We are around 20% unemployment, not 10%. The following is a good article talking about bogus unemployment statistics.
‘Obama job numbers are pure fiction’
Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama’s jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one — not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics — actually measures “jobs saved.” As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama’s jobs claims are “based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs.” Nice work if you can get away with it.
And get away with it he has. However dubious it may be as an economic measure, as a political formula “save or create” allows the president to invoke numbers that convey an illusion of precision. Harvard economist and former Bush economic adviser Greg Mankiw calls it a “non-measurable metric.” And on his blog, he acknowledges the political attraction.
Global Warming Petition by 31,478 scientists
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 15th, 2009
Statement on Global Warming Petition Signed by 31,478 Scientists
By Ron Paul
Published 06/15/09
Before the US House of Representatives, June 4, 2009
Madam Speaker, before voting on the “cap-and-trade” legislation, my colleagues should consider the views expressed in the following petition that has been signed by 31,478 American scientists:
“We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
The Obama Power Grab
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 13th, 2009
The Obama administration is engaged in the most sweeping power grab in modern American history, but few people seem to care. In barely four months, we’ve witnessed the president and his minions taking over insurance companies, banks, and car companies, forcing private companies to sell off assets, appease unions, and stiff bondholders. Administration officials have insisted some companies take government handouts even if they don’t want them and told others they can’t pay back the money they’ve borrowed until the government gives them permission. Now, the president has decided he’ll appoint a “compensation czar” whose job it will be to decide what constitutes fair pay for corporate executives. Why stop there? And, of course, they won’t.
H.R. 1207 now has majority!
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 13th, 2009
Less than 24 hours after WND reported a proposal from U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, to audit the Federal Reserve was approaching majority support in the U.S. House, he is confirming the plan has reached that “crucial benchmark.”"The tremendous grass-roots and bipartisan support in Congress for H.R. 1207 is an indicator of how mainstream America is fed up with Fed secrecy,” Paul said shortly after U.S. Rep Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, became the 218th cosponsor, giving the plan, technically, majority support in the 435-member House.
“I look forward to this issue receiving greater public exposure,” Paul said.
Cap and Trade? Not according to NASA
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 9th, 2009
From the Young American’s for Liberty website.
A new study by NASA
shows that increased solar activity has significantly impacted the earth’s climate more than man’s activity, with evidence reaching as far back as the Industrial Revolution. This new study discusses the previously discovered 11-year solar cycle, as well as the effects on earth’s climate caused by increased activity around sunspots.
Robert Cahalan, a climatologist from Goddard Space Flight Center, says, “Right now, we are in between major ice ages, in a period that has been called the Holocene.”
The report later goes on to contradict itself by “ignoring its own evidence,” and “return[ing] to an argument that man had replaced the sun as the cause current warming patterns.” However, as DailyTech.com reports, that contradiction is “based less on hard data and more on questionable correlations and inaccurate modeling techniques.”
In another article posted by the Young American’s for Liberty.
In light of recent discoveries from NASA about the nature of global climate change, Robert P. Murphy’s article on “The Costs of Carbon Legislation” at Mises.org is particularly relevant. Murphy seeks to counter arguments from Keynesian economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, who claims that carbon-controlling legislation will have little in the way of significant costs but will make great strides in preventing continued decline of the environment.
Murphy begins:
In the present article, I want to show the fragility of Krugman’s position. For one thing, the true economic harms of “global-warming” legislation could be much higher than his own cited figures. For another, the benefits of such measures — in terms of averted climate-change damage — are quite negligible, unless other countries follow suit.
Finally, Krugman’s strategic position on carbon legislation — “this bill is better than nothing” — is inconsistent with his own views of Obama’s “inadequate” stimulus bill and Geithner’s plans for revamping the banking sector. In short, if the world really is on the verge of catastrophe — which many alarmists tell us it is, and that’s why we need to take immediate action — then why are so many of these same activists supporting legislation that their own models show will do virtually nothing?
Read the rest here.
14th Amendment originalism, from the Second Amendment?
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 9th, 2009
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided McDonald v. City of Chicago, a challenge to Chicago’s gun ban. The case has major implications for protecting gun rights at the state level, but its importance goes further than that. Depending on what the Supreme Court does, it could make originalism — relying on the text of the Constitution and its amendments as they were understood when enacted — the accepted standard for interpreting the Bill of Rights, rather than the whims of a handful of justices.
Get the entire article here.
This is a very interesting case because it is about the Second Amendment, yet it could establish originalism for the 14th Amendment.
In case you are rusty on your amendments, the 14th states:
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
If the court rules the right way, this could potentially be a huge victory for Constitutionalists, as well as Second Amendment buffs.
Rand Paul on price controls
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 8th, 2009
Rand Paul discusses why price controls do not work. Should government set the price of bread? How about setting the prices of healthcare?
Apologies
Posted by David Hazi in General on June 3rd, 2009
Sorry guys about not posting a lot lately. I have been super busy with my personal life and I had come down with some bad tonsillitis for a few days. I am going to try and add a lot of new posting here within the week. A lot of things have been going on and I really want to address them. Mostly the protection of our Second Amendment rights from Sotomayor the insanely anti-gun Supreme Court Justice nominee, as well as, the government takeover of GM, socialized medicine, and the eminent illegal-alien amnesty bill. Please keep checking back guys, I promise I haven’t disappeared!