Glenn Beck On Climategate

And We Thought The GOP Could Not Possibly Blow More

Will all decent Republican Conservative candidates PLEASE consider leaving the GOP?  The Republican politicians in Washington could not be comprised of a more vapid, idiotic, self-serving, and power-hungry group of jackals.  Instead of refusing to be a part of the nationwide rape that is Obamacare, we have the GOP falling right into the Democrat trap of actually debating the health care bill as if there was any part of it worth the reams of paper it was printed on.  And who is the first spineless, bipartisan, weenie in line with an amendment??  RINO extraordinaire, John McCain, of course.  This guy and the GOP rank and file he represents have already forced the election of a communist to the presidency, so it is a puzzle to me why McCain, Graham, and the like keep getting reelected.  For Conservatives, these posers are far more dangerous than the transparently socialist Barney Franks of the world.  We absolutely MUST rid ourselves of these snakes at the earliest possible opportunity.

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According to RedState…

Senate GOP Decides To Improve Health Care Bill So It Can Pass

The Senate Republican Conference is giddy that its first amendment to the health care legislation is to preserve the bloated Medicare bureaucracy.  The Senate Democrats want to do what they always accuse the GOP of doing and cut Medicare.  The GOP is apparently giddy at the opportunity to rub the Democrats’ noses in their Medicare cuts.

So now the GOP is using its first amendment to reaffirm the Democrat theory that Medicare cannot be cut and cuts even to the rate of growth of Medicare are also wrong.

The GOP could have, by chance, offered up the Stupak language, which has not yet been inserted.  The GOP could have offered up an amendment to split the Democrats up front.  The GOP could have done nothing and moved on to let cloture fail, thus killing the bill.  Instead, Democrats and Republicans will no doubt join hands and vote to put the money back in Medicare, making it a grand bipartisan exercise.

What next? A GOP amendment to guarantee breast cancer screenings in the legislation?

Having started from the presupposition that the health care legislation is going to pass, the GOP seems to be signaling it will work to “improve” the legislation just enough to overcome a filibuster.

The legislation has 57 votes already.  The GOP does not need to offer amendments to improve the bill — they need to bring it to a vote and kill it.  Preening for cameras and favorable press coverage is going to get the bill to 60 votes and a signing ceremony…

Update On The Washington Shootings

Once again, we are forced to go abroad for the best coverage on an important story.  The UK Mail Online has a comprehensive article on the tragic shooting of four police officers in Tacoma, Washington.  Click here for story.  Our own worthless media is too busy covering Tiger Woods and the White House party crashers to give this story its due attention.

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Update:  The scumbag has been shot dead.  Good riddance.  Story here.

Hondurans Made It Through!! Elected Conservative To Presidency

From the UK Telegraph (because Reuters and the AP coverage of this is so frickin’ slanted):

Honduras’ Election Won By Porfirio Lobo
Conservative opposition candidate Porfirio Lobo has swept to victory in Honduras’ presidential election

Mr Lobo, a rich landowner, had over 55 percent support with more than half the votes counted and his closest rival, Elvin Santos of the ruling Liberal Party, conceded defeat.

The election could calm a five-month crisis which was sparked when the Honduran army overthrew leftist President Manuel Zelaya in June and flew him into exile.  But while Washington commended the vote, leftist rulers of Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela and other Latin American countries say the election is invalid because it was backed by the coup leaders and could end any hope of Mr Zelaya returning to power.

US State Department spokesman Ian Kelly called the election “a necessary and important step forward” but did not say whether Washington would explicitly recognize Mr Lobo…

Priceless: Candidate Steps Up To Run For Congress From Non-Existent District

Here is a heads-up to the Obama administration.  You may have been able to lie, steal and fake your way through an election with the mainstream media carrying your water, but there are watchdog groups that actually read the reports put out by the White House.  You can’t just make up phony jobs in phony congressional districts and get away with it, you assclowns…

Our Brothers Across The Pond Are Also Fighting The Collectivist World Order

This really started to get humorous to me when the Polish rep stood up to give a completely unintelligible response where she calls the Brit rep a monkey’s ass (I think)…

Lord Monckton On “Climategate”

PSA From The People’s Cube

Forcing Political Change Through Orchestrated Crisis: Cloward-Piven

Glenn Beck is constantly begging his viewers to become familiar with Cloward & Piven as he feels their ideas, along with Alinsky’s, serve as the blueprint for this President and his administration.  For those of you still wondering how the Liberals could possibly think nationalized health care can work — the answer is, they don’t.  Here is a great summary of the Cloward-Piven strategy from DiscoverTheNetworks.Org:

First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse…

Cloward and Piven charged that … poor people can advance only when “the rest of society is afraid of them,”…

Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would “the rest of society” accept their demands.

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state.  Cloward-Piven’s early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration.  “Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules,” Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book Rules for Radicals.  When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short.  The system’s failure to “live up” to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist “rule book” with a socialist one.

The authors noted that the number of Americans subsisting on welfare — about 8 million, at the time — probably represented less than half the number who were technically eligible for full benefits.  They proposed a “massive drive to recruit the poor onto the welfare rolls.”  Cloward and Piven calculated that persuading even a fraction of potential welfare recipients to demand their entitlements would bankrupt the system.  The result, they predicted, would be “a profound financial and political crisis” that would unleash “powerful forces … for major economic reform at the national level.”

Their article called for “cadres of aggressive organizers” to use “demonstrations to create a climate of militancy.”  Intimidated by threats of black violence, politicians would appeal to the federal government for help.  Carefully orchestrated media campaigns, carried out by friendly, leftwing journalists, would float the idea of “a federal program of income redistribution,” in the form of a guaranteed living income for all — working and non-working people alike.  Local officials would clutch at this idea like drowning men to a lifeline.  They would apply pressure on Washington to implement it.  With every major city erupting into chaos, Washington would have to act.

This was an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse movements — mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet.  The flood of demands was calculated to break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down.  Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown — providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change…

This Is What Happens When We Have A President With No Testicles

From Fox News:

Iran Approves Plan To Build 10 New Uranium Enrichment Plants

Iran approved plans Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, days after it demanded Tehran stop construction on one plant and halt all enrichment activities.

Iran’s defiance will likely heighten tensions with the West, which has signaled it is running out of patience with Iran’s continuing enrichment and its balking at a U.N. deal aimed at ensuring Tehran cannot build a nuclear weapon in the near-term future.  The U.S. and its allies have hinted at new U.N. sanctions if Iran does not respond…

Right.  Iran must be shaking in its boots now.  Hinting at sanctions – - that’s some pretty tough action on our part.  And while this is going on, we are busy disarming.

Climategate: Finally, The Light Of Truth Escapes From The Black Hole That Is The Global Climate Scam

A MUST READ article from the UK Telegraph:

Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation

A week after my colleague James Delingpole, on his Telegraph blog, coined the term “Climategate” to describe the scandal revealed by the leaked emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit, Google was showing that the word now appears across the internet more than nine million times…

The reason why even the Guardian’s George Monbiot has expressed total shock and dismay at the picture revealed by the documents is that their authors are not just any old bunch of academics.  Their importance cannot be overestimated.  What we are looking at here is the small group of scientists who have for years been more influential in driving the worldwide alarm over global warming than any others, not least through the role they play at the heart of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…

Professor Philip Jones, the CRU’s director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports.  Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC’s key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.

Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann’s “hockey stick” graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.

Given star billing by the IPCC, not least for the way it appeared to eliminate the long-accepted Mediaeval Warm Period when temperatures were higher they are today, the graph became the central icon of the entire man-made global warming movement.

Since 2003, however, when the statistical methods used to create the “hockey stick” were first exposed as fundamentally flawed by an expert Canadian statistician Steve McIntyre, an increasingly heated battle has been raging between Mann’s supporters, calling themselves “the Hockey Team”, and McIntyre and his own allies, as they have ever more devastatingly called into question the entire statistical basis on which the IPCC and CRU construct their case.

The senders and recipients of the leaked CRU emails constitute a cast list of the IPCC’s scientific elite, including not just the “Hockey Team”, such as Dr Mann himself, Dr Jones and his CRU colleague Keith Briffa, but Ben Santer, responsible for a highly controversial rewriting of key passages in the IPCC’s 1995 report; Kevin Trenberth, who similarly controversially pushed the IPCC into scaremongering over hurricane activity; and Gavin Schmidt, right-hand man to Al Gore’s ally Dr James Hansen, whose own GISS record of surface temperature data is second in importance only to that of the CRU itself.

There are three threads in particular in the leaked documents which have sent a shock wave through informed observers across the world.  Perhaps the most obvious, as lucidly put together by Willis Eschenbach (see McIntyre’s blog Climate Audit and Anthony Watt’s blog Watts Up With That), is the highly disturbing series of emails which show how Dr Jones and his colleagues have for years been discussing the devious tactics whereby they could avoid releasing their data to outsiders under freedom of information laws.

They have come up with every possible excuse for concealing the background data on which their findings and temperature records were based.

This in itself has become a major scandal, not least Dr Jones’s refusal to release the basic data from which the CRU derives its hugely influential temperature record, which culminated last summer in his startling claim that much of the data from all over the world had simply got “lost”.  Most incriminating of all are the emails in which scientists are advised to delete large chunks of data, which, when this is done after receipt of a freedom of information request, is a criminal offence.

But the question which inevitably arises from this systematic refusal to release their data is – what is it that these scientists seem so anxious to hide?  The second and most shocking revelation of the leaked documents is how they show the scientists trying to manipulate data through their tortuous computer programmes, always to point in only the one desired direction – to lower past temperatures and to “adjust” recent temperatures upwards, in order to convey the impression of an accelerated warming.  This comes up so often (not least in the documents relating to computer data in the Harry Read Me file) that it becomes the most disturbing single element of the entire story. This is what Mr McIntyre caught Dr Hansen doing with his GISS temperature record last year (after which Hansen was forced to revise his record), and two further shocking examples have now come to light from Australia and New Zealand.

In each of these countries it has been possible for local scientists to compare the official temperature record with the original data on which it was supposedly based.  In each case it is clear that the same trick has been played – to turn an essentially flat temperature chart into a graph which shows temperatures steadily rising.  And in each case this manipulation was carried out under the influence of the CRU.

What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results.

The third shocking revelation of these documents is the ruthless way in which these academics have been determined to silence any expert questioning of the findings they have arrived at by such dubious methods – not just by refusing to disclose their basic data but by discrediting and freezing out any scientific journal which dares to publish their critics’ work.  It seems they are prepared to stop at nothing to stifle scientific debate in this way, not least by ensuring that no dissenting research should find its way into the pages of IPCC reports.

Back in 2006, when the eminent US statistician Professor Edward Wegman produced an expert report for the US Congress vindicating Steve McIntyre’s demolition of the “hockey stick”, he excoriated the way in which this same “tightly knit group” of academics seemed only too keen to collaborate with each other and to “peer review” each other’s papers in order to dominate the findings of those IPCC reports on which much of the future of the US and world economy may hang.  In light of the latest revelations, it now seems even more evident that these men have been failing to uphold those principles which lie at the heart of genuine scientific enquiry and debate.  Already one respected US climate scientist, Dr Eduardo Zorita, has called for Dr Mann and Dr Jones to be barred from any further participation in the IPCC.  Even our own George Monbiot, horrified at finding how he has been betrayed by the supposed experts he has been revering and citing for so long, has called for Dr Jones to step down as head of the CRU.

The former Chancellor Lord (Nigel) Lawson, last week launching his new think tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, rightly called for a proper independent inquiry into the maze of skulduggery revealed by the CRU leaks.  But the inquiry mooted on Friday, possibly to be chaired by Lord Rees, President of the Royal Society – itself long a shameless propagandist for the warmist cause – is far from being what Lord Lawson had in mind.  Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash of what has become the greatest scientific scandal of our age.And in a related story…

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Climate Change Data Dumped

Also, see the two Steyn articles on my blog roll for his always-humorous take on Climategate.

Thoughts On Texas Independence And A Peaceful Secession – Part I

In my limited spare time, I have been attempting to educate myself on successful independence movements, and more specifically, those achieved through peaceful means with little or no armed conflict.  Anyone who has given Texas independence a serious look will have rapidly come to the conclusion that timing is extremely important, and key to that is a readiness by Texans to see their opportunity when it appears, and then capitalize upon it.

We know from our own American Revolution (revolution actually being a misnomer as that was truly a secessionist movement) that timing can make the difference between success and failure.  The British were not long removed from a costly war with France and that lasting fatigue redounded greatly in our favor.  That said, our independence was hard fought, and part of the violence of our revolution can be attributed to the fact that secession was not seriously considered by the colonial leaders until the issue literally slapped them in the face.

As late as 1775, most of the major players in our American Revolution were horrified at the thought of war with their mother country and considered themselves proud subjects of the British crown.  There were, of course, exceptions such as Samuel Adams and his Sons of Liberty, but for the most part, our Founding Fathers were ill prepared for the challenge before them and it is miraculous indeed that independence was achieved at all.

Contrast this with the more recent case of Latvia, which actually achieved independence through peaceful means months before the fall of the USSR, and may even have been a contributing factor.  Their secession was accomplished through incremental, peaceful steps in a well-conceived plan by a very small group called Helsinki-86.

One of the first hurdles they had to cross was a mental one – - they had to make Latvians see that secession was not impossible, as the world powers (including the US) would have had them believe.  Latvians had to see that an independent Latvia could be realized.  Sound familiar?

I have found the overcoming of the “fear factor” and the “craziness factor” to be vital steps in successful independence movements.  The “fear factor” being – - “How can we possibly survive on our own without the U.S.?”  I have addressed the issue of Texas self reliance here, but even if Texas was not so perfectly positioned, that would not preclude independence.  One need only look at countries like Japan, completely reliant upon foreign imports for survival, to see that the “fear factor” is something drilled into us through years of indoctrination by centralized governments worldwide, who’s very existence relies upon this perception.

The other hurdle we must overcome is the “craziness factor”, the idea that talk of Texas secession is limited to right wing nutjobs with rebel flags in their back window.  As Mahatma Gandhi, father of Indian independence once said,

“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”

In the case of Latvia, the “craziness factor” was overcome through the building of Latvian national pride.  Helsinki 86 began to stage protests on important dates in Latvian national history.  Latvia and other Baltic states began what was later called a “Singing Revolution” because secession-minded groups would organize events where patriotic, uniting songs were played, reminding people of their ethnic heritage and instilling in them a renewed sense of national pride.  These protests served as a reminder to the people that they were united by a common heritage and had a previous history of successful independence.

Again, it astounds me how far ahead Texas may be in this process and how little time it might take to overcome the “craziness factor”.  Most Texans already harbor a strong sense of state pride — – surely our state flag flies over more homes and establishments, and is painted on the sides of more barns, than any other state in the union.  We have a rich and strong cultural heritage treasured by millions of Texans.

It is likely that a large part of the “craziness factor” could be overcome by the continued exposure of Texans to the message of Texas independence.  As you begin to see an idea espoused on thousands of bumper stickers, on roadside billboards, in radio advertising, and the like, even the craziest of concepts (and this one is not at all) can begin to seem commonplace.  We need only look at the worldwide fraud that is global warming to see the truth in this.

These issues are just some of many that seem to factor into an ideal, peaceful secession.  Frankly, I am only just beginning my education in this area.  However, I will keep you, my fellow Conservatives, informed during this journey so you can begin to consider Texas independence as a viable option in a time when our federal leaders are rapidly removing all chances of escape from the collectivist nanny-state.

South Park, Cartman At The Waterpark

Watch South Park long enough and you will be the brunt of one of their jokes…they are equal opportunity offenders. I am simply glad they are able to fearlessly put this stuff out in today’s intolerantly PC America.  If you have never seen South Park, Cartman is the Archie Bunker of the show.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/256710

Obama’s America Continues Its Slide Into International Irrelevance

After a year of apology tours, fumbling foreign policy and egotistical grandstanding, it looks like the rest of the world may be tired of the Obama show.  Wouldn’t it be ironic if Sarkozy manages to cobble together some kind of Middle East peace negotiation while Obama is accepting his totally undeserved Nobel prize?

Sarkozy Outshines Obama as King of MidEast Mediation

For decades the cafés, classrooms and mosques of the Middle East have discussed American intervention in the region.

Eight years of American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a subsequent promise by U.S. President Barack Obama to turn a new page in American relations with the Muslim world have only heightened the United States’ role in the Middle East.

But in the battle fields outside Kabul, the mosques of Tehran and Damascus and the halls of power in Jerusalem, people are discussing an entirely different international player: Sarkozy.

In what has been termed “diplomatic activism”, in the two years since he assumed the French presidency Sarkozy has launched a ‘Union for the Mediterranean’, pushed France to the forefront of international mediation in Syria, taken Europe’s most aggressive stance towards Iran, made friends with Israel, officially joined NATO in Afghanistan, and most recently flown to Saudi Arabia to convince the royals to support a Middle East peace conference in Paris.

Sarkozy’s saunter into Middle Eastern diplomacy is seen by the region’s pundits and politicians alike in stark contrast to the approach of the U.S. president, who after almost a year in office has made a brief stopover in Riyadh and a grandiose speech in Cairo…

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I cannot copy this entire article, but I STRONGLY recommend you read the whole thing (here) as it is very interesting.

Horrifed Thoughts For Terri Schiavo

One can only hope the doctors were right in the case of Terri Schiavo, the woman starved to death by her abusive husband while her family was forced to sit back and do nothing.  From the UK Mail:

Patient Trapped In A 23-Year Coma Was Conscious All Along

A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.  Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.  He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said.

‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,’ said Mr Houben, now 46.

Doctors used a range of coma tests, recognised worldwide, before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was ‘extinct’.  But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.  Mr Houben describes the moment as ‘my second birth’.

Therapy has since allowed him to tap out messages on a computer screen.  Mr Houben said: ‘All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.’  His case has only just been revealed in a scientific paper released by the man who ’saved’ him, top neurological expert Dr Steven Laureys.

‘Medical advances caught up with him,’ said Dr Laureys, who believes there may be many similar cases of false comas around the world…Dr Laureys’s new study claims that patients classed as in a vegetative state are often misdiagnosed…

Another Terrorist Attack In New York, This One Thanks To Obama

From the AP:

Lawyer: 9/11 defendants want platform for views

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.  Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it.”

The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center…

Critics of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try the men in a New York City civilian courthouse have warned that the trial would provide the defendants with a propaganda platform…Holder said such concerns are misplaced, and any pronouncements by the suspects would only make them look worse… 

The Newest Eco-Scare Video – Man, These People Are Nitwits

Hey Oprah and Moyers … Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Ass

From Wizbang:

It’s bad enough we’re going to lose Oprah in 2012, but now, Bill Moyers, too!!

Woe unto us!  From where shall we get our unbiased, objective analysis?

Yes.  Bill Moyers, that bastion of journalistic integrity, has decided to retire from his tax-payer funder ivory tower over at PBS, in April of 2010.  A man whose last 8 years of his career was sustained by perpetuating weekly displays of Bush Derangement Syndrome, it is estimated he has amassed a personal fortune of $20 million from the American tax-payer and generous viewer donations.

Speaking softly with a slight, thoughtful southern drawl, his public life is that of a fiercely outspoken liberal hatchet man.  Though he is best known as the propaganda minister for PBS, he got his first big break in Vietnam-era politics.  A close confidant of Lyndon B. Johnson, Moyers rose quickly through the political ranks to become Johnson’s “special assistant,” eventually becoming supervisor and point man for the welfare expansion program known as “The Great Society.”  He helped forge many social engineering experiments which cost trillions of dollars, much of which we are still paying for today.

Not surprisingly, creation of and funding for public broadcasting became part of this massive government project, which eventually became Moyer’s personal bully pulpit…

SNL Rips Obama: Are The Liberal Beer Goggles Starting To Slip?

http://www.hulu.com/watch/110317/saturday-night-live-china-cold-open

Prepare Yourself for Obamacare

While I appreciate greatly the continued fighting on behalf of Conservatives against the health care bill, we really lost the battle back when the House passed their version a couple of weeks ago.  The Senate has achieved cloture, which should come as no surprise to anyone.  Look, our rat-fink slimy politicians WILL pass this disastrous piece of legislation whether the people want it or not.  We need to prepare ourselves for a way to fight it as a law, which it will become as soon as this dog and pony show is over in Washington.

We should be maneuvering for a way to fight the legislation within our own states – - see the George Will article on Coercion clause.  

In case you are not already angry enough, Michelle Malkin has posted on her site The Demcare Bribe List.

Big Surprise: Capitalists Follow Market Principles To Avoid Lib Big-Government Damage

Here are two stories which should surprise nobody with even an elementary understanding of economics.

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Emerson Electric Votes With Its Feet, Saying The Goverment Is Destoying American Manufacturing
One of the country’s most important industrial companies says the United States is not a good place to manufacture and it will continue moving its assets offshore.

The federal government is “doing everything in [its] manpower [and] capability to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” says David Farr, chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric Co., in a presentation at the Baird 2009 Industrial Conference in Chicago Ill., on Nov. 11.  In comments reported by Bloomberg, Farr added that companies will continue adding jobs in China and India because they are “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something.  I am not going to hire anybody in the United States.  I’m moving.  They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs.”

In his Powerpoint presentation available on the Emerson Electric Web site, Farr notes that the federal government is damaging prospects for U.S. economic growth with a $1.41 trillion federal deficit (10 percent of GDP); $12 trillion in government debt that will grow to $20 trillion in 10 years; a policy of printing money; a “non-targeted $800-billion stimulus”; bailouts for Wall Street and the automobile companies; the prospect for cap and trade legislation; a “government takeover” of health care to the tune of more than $1 trillion; increasing taxes and regulations; and a “lack of U.S. $ support” for manufacturing…

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U.S. Democrats demand analysis of drug price rises
Congressional Democrats are seeking government investigations into recent price increases of brand-name prescription drugs, as Congress finalizes an overhaul of the healthcare system.

Lawmakers are concerned the companies are trying to reap gains ahead of reforms aimed at lowering drug prices and forcing drugmakers to partly fund changes that aim to boost the number of Americans covered by health insurance.

Drugmakers “may be artificially raising prices for certain pharmaceutical products in expectation of new reforms,” wrote Charles Rangel and Henry Waxman, the respective chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

The Wizbang response to this story says it best…

“Well imagine that.  Drug companies trying to “reap gains” by “artificially raising prices”.  What’s not clear is how Congressional Democrats expect drug companies to continue the R&D necessary to bring new life-saving drugs to market if they’re to do so without “reaping gains” on popular drugs already on the market.  Do they expect that these drugs will fall from the sky?  Profits are what businesses depend upon to fuel development of new products.  Without profits, businesses fail, and failing drug companies should be low on anybody’s wish list—even economic know-nothings like “Congressional Democrats”.

And what’s this about “artificially raising prices”?  There’s a market for drugs, isn’t there?  And drug companies sell drugs, don’t they?  There’s nothing “artificial” about their setting prices for their product based on the public’s demand for it.  It’s actually quite organic.  You want “artificial”?  Let the government set prices based on things OTHER than the supply of that product and the public’s demand for it.  See where that gets you…

Drug companies need profits to make new drugs and to make current drugs better.  The “reforms” that Congressional Democrats have in mind (price fixing, taxation, etc.) will reduce those profits, raise prices on patients and result in us all having diminished access to life saving drugs.

This is not reform. This is suicide.”

New EU President Confirms The Coming One World Order

Here is the President of the European Union, stating quite clearly the goal of a one world, global government to solve issues of social justice, etc.  But we are the nuts right??  We are the crazy conspiracy theorists ranting about a one world order??  They do not even attempt to hide it any more.  Communist Progressives, to the last, and totally unashamed.  This guy is a big yawn, so skip to about 1.15 minutes in for the meat…

Hot New Novelty Gift: Obama Bowing Bird

From the lovable nuts at The People’s Cube:

Climate Study Exposes Global Warming Hoax, Libs Bury The Data

We now have even more evidence that global warming is a complete and utter scam.  From a recent Spiegel article entitled Climatologists Baffled By Global Warming Time-out,

Global warming appears to have stalled.  Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years…..

Not much is happening with global warming at the moment.  The Earth’s average temperatures have stopping climbing since the beginning of the millennium, and it even looks as though global warming could come to a standstill this year.  Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in [Copenhagen], where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.  Billions of euros are at stake in the negotiations…

But let’s not assume these facts will penetrate the liberal mind.  As I argued before (here), the “environment” is simply a tool in the Marxist toolbox.  Even if global warming does gets shoved offstage to join acid rain and the ozone layer, it won’t be long before the enviro-whacks find a replacement crisis.

In a related story that in no way surprises your average Conservative, private emails from a major global warming advocacy center in the UK have come to light which show their attempts to conceal and change any climate data detrimental to their global warming argument.

Fred Thompson: “The War In Afghanistan Is Lost”

Obama: The Great Genuflector

George Will: Fighting A Coercion Clause

Instead of just listing it on the blog roll, I wanted to specifically point out a fantastic column by George Will this week.  This may be how the states will fight Obamacare.
http://townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/11/19/fighting_a_coercion_clause?page=1

Coming Soon To Our Family Library

Author Katharine DeBrecht has written two bestselling childrens books entitled “Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!” and “Help! Mom!  Radicals Are Ruining My Country!”.  The books are described as ”a hilarious and entertaining way for parents to sit down with their children and teach them the origins of the new Tea Party movement and the importance of standing up for liberty and the American Dream.”

Follow Tommy and Lou as they struggle to keep their swing set business afloat despite 246 czars, onerous regulations and sky-high taxes in these troubling times. Will Tommy and Lou finally decide to join the other kids on the corner in standing up for freedom or will they continue to fear being vilified by the press and demeaned by Marxus Obundus (“the One”)?

Debra Medina, Our Next Texas Governor, On Freedom Watch

Fellow conservatives: Let’s spend our time, money and effort working to get a true conservative elected as Texas governor.  We have to get control of our own state before we have a prayer of reclaiming a nation.  This is no shrinking violet — she will fight for Texas sovereignty.       

National Enquirer Is Fast Becoming America’s Most Reliable News Publication

One would have thought it impossible for Newsweek to sink even deeper into the journalistic slime pit that passes for today’s media, but let us never doubt again the lengths Liberals will go to mock Sarah Palin.  Some of you may have seen the recent Newsweek cover featuring Palin in her jogging outfit and wondered – why would she do a Newsweek cover in that attire?  Perhaps you thought that seemed like an inappropriate choice…and it would be, unless you were posing for the cover of Runner’s World, which she was! 

Palin, who is a bit of a health nut, posed for the August 2009 issue of Runner’s World, and Newsweek (without the permission of Runner’s World) went to the photographer’s stock agency for the photo to grace their November cover.  Slimeballs. 

NY Times Reports On Some News, But Walks On Eggshells The Whole Time

Even the NY Times has noticed what a total kiss-ass Obama has been to the Chi-Coms, and actually reports on it, but tepidly…

Whether by White House design or Chinese insistence, President Obama has steered clear of public meetings with Chinese liberals, free press advocates and even average Chinese during his first visit to China, showing a deference to the Chinese leadership’s aversions to such interactions that is unusual for a visiting American president…

[Mr. Obama], in nuanced references to human rights, has shied away from citing China’s spotty record, even when offered the chance.  Asked Monday in Shanghai to discuss China’s censorship of the Internet, the president replied by talking about America’s robust political debates…

American scholars and activists, who requested anonymity for fear of damaging relations with the White House, said the administration rejected proposals for brief meetings in Beijing with Chinese political activists, and then with lawyers…

Did you catch that??  Just in case you missed it, I am going to quote that line again…”American scholars and activists, who requested anonymity for fear of damaging relations with the White House…”  What kind of a human rights activist are you if you are afraid to speak out against the White House?  And what does that say about this thug administration that scholars and activists would harbor these fears?  And what are they afraid of?  Not being invited to Beltway cocktail parties?  Not being included in the taxpayer gravy train when entitlement decisions are made?  You know, the left’s mantra used to be “Speak Truth To Power”, but not when the power is Obama.  And where the hell is that bleeding heart Richard Gere and the other Hollywood nitwits crying at the Oscars over the Chinese treatment of Tibet??  Their political convictions were about as real as their spray-tans, and have faded just as quickly.

Judge Napolitano On Texas Secession

BBC Article: A Stinking Pile Of Dog Crap

The U.N. is cranking out their environmental communist agenda and the assclowns over at the BBC happily regurgitate it for the masses…  

Poor Women “Bear Climate Burden”

Women in developing countries will be the most vulnerable to climate change, a report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned.  The agency said there was a disproportionate burden on those women and called for greater equality.  They do most of the agricultural work, and are therefore affected by weather-related natural disasters impacting on food, energy and water, it said.

The “women” are the victim du jour in this article.  Tomorrow’s victim will be the children.  But it will always come back to the environmental message, because it is not a movement, it is a religion.    

Slower population growth would help cut greenhouse gas emissions, it added…

That’s the eugenics message we have been getting from Progressives for the last century.  These people love the planet and love animals, but hate people.  

Temperatures are predicted to rise by 4C to 6C by 2100, with a “likely catastrophic effect” on the environment, habitats, economies and people, the report said.  Migration could be affected, as rising sea levels and droughts prompt people to leave uninhabitable lands, and poor people could lose their livelihoods.

Dogs living with cats…mass hysteria!!  These con-men have been predicting the earth’s demise for decades.  Except now they are smart enough to push “judgement day” to a time so far into the future they will be dead and can avoid looking stupid when they are proven wrong.

 But women, particularly in poor countries, will be affected differently from men, the UNFPA added.  Describing “a cycle of deprivation”, the report said that women in developing countries did a larger share of farming and had less access to income-earning opportunities.  They also managed households and cared for families, which limited their chances of moving around and increased “their vulnerability to sudden weather-related natural disasters”.  When drought strikes, the women had to “work harder to secure food, water and energy for their homes”.

Can you believe this is an article from a mainstream news source? 

“Given women’s significant engagement in food production in developing countries, the close connection between gender, farming and climate change deserves far more analysis than it currently receives,” the UNFPA said.  Societies which will be more resilient to climate change are those with education, healthcare and legal protection for all…

And there it is…the “social justice” message inherent in the communist environmental movement nowadays.  It is all about the redistribution of wealth on a global scale.  The draft of the Copenhagen environmental treaty proposed by the UN for ratification in December, requires developed countries to pay what is called an “adaptation debt” to developing countries to support climate change mitigation.  WTF Right??  Clause 33, p.39 of the treaty says that by 2020 “the scale of financial flows to support adaptation in developing countries must be [at least $67 billion] or [in the range of $70 billion to $140 billion per year].”

It warned it was a long-term goal – taking “decades, even centuries” – to keep the atmosphere suitable for human habitation.

Right.  Because this “global warming” crap is the lib gift that keeps on giving.  

Much Loved Symbol Of American Strength Co-opted By Obama’s Green Shirts

Green Army Co-ops Rosie

No, this is not some photo-shop from a satirical political site, this is from the creepy-as-hell Apollo Alliance web site.  To those of you who don’t watch Glenn Beck, the Apollo Alliance claims to have written the Cap & Trade legislation as well as the Stimulus Bill.  Remember the Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, who had to duck out of the White House in the middle of the night when videos of his Marxist rants came to light?  Well, Commie Van Jones sat on the board at AA.  The New York State Apollo Alliance Director is Jeffery Jones, home-grown terrorist and co-founder with William Ayers of the Weather Underground.  Here they are recruiting amongst our veterans for their civilian green army…

This Wednesday was Veterans Day, and to honor our veterans and their service to our country, the Apollo Alliance published a feature story about veterans’ role in the green economy.  The article profiled two green jobs programs—Veterans Green Jobs of Colorado and the Veterans Conservation Corps of Washington state—and the recently launched “Operation Free” campaign that has veterans touring the country to call for federal action on climate change…

Hat tip: Atlas Shrugs.

Disney Kid Today, Hollywood Slut Tomorrow: Why We Need To Foster Role Models Outside Of The Entertainment Biz

This is just freakin’ sad.  Brent Bozell’s latest column this week focuses on a recent storyline from the sleazy show Gossip Girl, in which teen star Hillary Duff joins in a threesome for some girl-on-girl action specifically designed to titillate the teenage viewing audience.  While I have allowed my daughter to adore Miley Cyrus as it seems her message is always a wholesome one, how long before we see photographs of sweet Miley vomiting behind some Hollywood night club, followed by the obligatory video from the steps of the rehab center?  I suppose I have been slow to grasp what many of you have probably realized long ago…parents cannot rely on an innocent, freckle-faced child star to serve as a decent role model for any length of time, and certainly not for the length of our children’s adolescence.  We have seen the slow slide into the gutter of the Olson twins, Jessica Simpson, Brittany Spears, Lindsay Lohan, and now the cherry on top of our smut sundae is ”Lizzie McGuire” in a menage-a-trois during prime time.  Thank you, Hollywood.

Tax Shelters And The Global Government Crackdown

Bloomberg has a story today on the numbers of Americans who decided to reveal their offshore accounts to our comrades at the IRS…

More than 14,700 Americans voluntarily disclosed secret offshore bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service during a partial amnesty program that ended Oct. 15, Commissioner Doug Shulman said.  “We were flooded with people coming in during the final days of the program,” Shulman told reporters on a conference call in Washington today as the U.S. and Swiss governments released a list of criteria used by Switzerland to screen American clients of UBS AG bank for tax fraud.  Americans with undeclared offshore accounts have been under growing pressure since Switzerland agreed Aug. 19 to hand over data to the U.S. on as many as 4,450 UBS accounts to settle a lawsuit in which the U.S. had sought as many as 52,000 accounts…

While Switzerland may have lost their courage and then their status as the world’s bankers, I had originally held high hopes for the continuing holdout of Liechtenstein.  But it looks like this is not to be.  Here is a press release from Hoyt Barber, a well-known tax haven specialist and author of several books on the subject…

European banking centers, in particular, find themselves today under extreme pressure from outside forces like the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, the G20, the OECD, Germany and France.  European banking centers such as Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Andorra, Monaco and Belgium have either agreed in principle to compromise their bank secrecy laws this year or are attempting to postpone what appears to be the inevitable, which will likely come in 2010.  In the meantime, many banks in these “target” countries are refusing to do business with new and existing clients, asking them to take their business elsewhere, particularly zeroing in on taxpayers from the United States and Canada.

Fortunately though, Americans still do have some options for sheltering our assets, and according to Barber, these would include Belize, Panama, Cook Islands, Nevis and Uruguay.

Gun Owners Beware! Obama Attempting Gun Control By UN Treaty

There is probably no greater threat to our life and liberty than the Liberal Global Collectivists who wish to impose their “morality” and rule over an entire planet.  America will be the last domino to fall, and after that, no place will be safe and free from their control.  From WorldNet Daily:

Obama revives talk of U.N. gun control

Gun rights supporters are up in arms over a pair of moves the White House made last month to reverse longstanding U.S. policy and begin negotiating a gun control treaty with the United Nations.  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first announced on Oct. 14 that the U.S. had changed its stance and would support negotiations of an Arms Trade Treaty to regulate international gun trafficking, a measure the Bush administration and, notably, former Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton opposed for years.

Two weeks ago, in another reversal of policy, the U.S. joined a nearly unanimous 153-1 U.N. vote to adopt a resolution setting out a timetable on the proposed Arms Trade Treaty, including a U.N. conference to produce a final accord in 2012…

Gun rights advocates, however, are calling the reversal both a dangerous submission of America’s Constitution to international governance and an attempt by the Obama administration to sneak into effect private gun control laws it couldn’t pass through Congress…

Bob Barr, a former U.S. representative and presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, explained in a separate interview with the NRA’s Simone how a treaty that looks like it’s all about fighting international crime will necessarily lead to erosion of Second Amendment gun rights:

“Even though [treaty advocates] all say, ‘We are not going to involve domestic laws and the right to keep and bear arms, that won’t be affected by all this,’ that’s nonsense,” Barr said. “There’s no way that if you buy into something like this and a treaty is passed regulating to ensure that firearms transfers internationally don’t fall into the hands of people that the U.N. doesn’t like, there’s no way that that mechanism will work unless you have some form of national regulation and national tracking.”

Bolton not only agrees with Barr’s assessment but also sees the treaty as an Obama administration end-run around the Constitution:

“After the treaty is approved and it comes into force, you will find out that it has this implication or that implication and it requires the Congress to adopt some measure that restricts ownership of firearms,” he said. “The administration knows it cannot obtain this kind of legislation purely in a domestic context. … They will use an international agreement as an excuse to get domestically what they couldn’t otherwise.”…

The Onion FINALLY Rips The Teleprompter In Chief

Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

More GE Advertising Disguised As Prime Time TV

GE’s mammoth investments in green product lines could really start to pay off if Obama signs our liberty away in Copenhagen.  Therefore, NBC will be pushing the enviro propaganda hard this week to their weak-minded lib viewers.  According to the AP:

NBC gives new meaning to the phrase “green screen” next week, spreading a pro-environmental message across five of its prime-time entertainment programs.

“30 Rock,” where Al Gore takes a cameo role, leads the way.  Environmental themes were also added to the scripts of “The Biggest Loser,” “The Office,” “Heroes” and “Community.”

…Producers decide the best way to absorb the message in a way that’s appropriate for their audiences..

NBC News is also involved next week.  The “Today” show will have a series on cost-efficient ways for families to live greener lives.  Anne Thompson will do environmental stories from Greenland, Denmark and Arizona on “Nightly News,” and David Gregory will bring up the topic on “Meet the Press.”  Activities on NBC Universal’s cable properties include hosts on The Weather Channel advising viewers to turn down their thermostats.

NASA Did Indeed Find Water On The Moon

Remember when NASA bombed the moon to see if there was water under the surface?  Well, there is water, and lots of it.  From the UK Times:

Substantial water reserves have been found beneath the Moon’s surface, Nasa announced yesterday, paving the way for a permanent lunar base.

The discovery came from Nasa’s “moon bombing” mission, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) probe, which was deliberately crashed into the lunar South Pole last month.  An analysis of the dust thrown up from the impact revealed the presence of about 80 litres of water, or enough for a shallow bath.  The results suggest that much larger, more accessible reserves are available at the poles.

“We can announce that we’ve found water — not just a little bit, a significant amount,” said Tony Colaprete, principal investigator for the mission at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre in California…