RANT: “Climate Change” sounds like “barbara streisand” to me!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/12/11/a-few-notes-on-climate-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Cato-at-liberty+%28Cato+at+Liberty%29

A Few Notes on Climate Change

Posted by Andrei Illarionov

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20. The impact of all anthropogenic factors (not only CO2) on climate is unclear when compared with factors of nature. Therefore, the most effective strategy for humanity in responding to different types of climate change is adaptation. That approach is exactly the way that humans have reacted to the larger-scale climatic changes in the past, even though they were less prepared then for such changes. Now mankind has greater resources to adapt to lesser climate fluctuations and it is better equipped for them scientifically, technically and psychologically. The adaptation of humanity to climate changes is incomparably less costly than other options being proposed and imposed by climate alarmists. Human society has already adopted to climate change and will continue to do so as long as economy and society are vibrant and free.

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“Climate Change” sounds like “barbara streisand” to me!

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POLITICAL: Rolling Stone calls out the corruption

Saturday, December 12, 2009

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/31234647/obamas_big_sellout

Rollingstone.com
Obama’s Big Sellout
The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway
MATT TAIBBI
Posted Dec 09, 2009 2:35 PM

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Taken together, the rash of appointments with ties to Bob Rubin may well represent the most sweeping influence by a single Wall Street insider in the history of government. “Rather than having a team of rivals, they’ve got a team of Rubins,” says Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. “You see that in policy choices that have resuscitated — but not reformed — Wall Street.”

While Rubin’s allies and acolytes got all the important jobs in the Obama administration, the academics and progressives got banished to semi-meaningless, even comical roles. Kornbluh was rewarded for being the chief policy architect of Obama’s meteoric rise by being outfitted with a pith helmet and booted across the ocean to Paris, where she now serves as America’s never-again-to-be-seen-on-TV ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Goolsbee, meanwhile, was appointed as staff director of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, a kind of dumping ground for Wall Street critics who had assisted Obama during the campaign; one top Democrat calls the panel “Siberia.”

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The President, at least according to Regan as I remember, has a very limited scope of influence. (That’s always stunned me.) The agenda might have three items and be lucky to get two done. It’s the appointments — picking people — where he has the most impact.

Clearly, Rolling Stone points out how poorly that picking was done.

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INTERESTING: Tiger Woods has really stepped in it

Friday, December 11, 2009

Guess that just kills his squeaky clean image.

Too bad.

The media will rub everyone’s nose in it as they define “deviancy” down.

Hopefully, for the children’s sake, everything will work out peacefully.

What is it with the sport’s ego? NBA players, MLB, and the “rock stars”.

I would hope that if I had their gifts, I’d have the humility to kiss the ground every morning.

Sigh!

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RANT: Do we remember Pearl Harbor?

Monday, December 7, 2009

Tommorrow, December 7th, Americans MIGHT remember the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On a Sunday morning, 68 years ago, the US Navy were the recipients of a well-planned and poorly executed raid.

Twenty Five Hundred deaths that day; uncountable more in the resulting war.

Generations disrupted as they were in WW1.

And, the “cure” to the “Great Depression”. Would this be the beginning of the Leviathan Gooferment State?

Donning my tin foil hat, I call your attention to the role of FDR in provoking, if not orchestrating, the war he needed to restart the economy.

Our entry into WW1, by the “peace candidate” Wilson, allowed the seeds of WW2 to be sown. Our entry into WW2, by the instigator FDR, allowed the creation of a permanent “warfare” state.

This day is a reminder that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

… … not for the military invasion or aggression, but against the politicians who would enslave us in debt, welfare, and the never ending “war”.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Most open, most transparent administration

Sunday, December 6, 2009

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5joOOsTVD57lFwm_InpZY_nRbg4KQD9CDRVOO0

PROMISES, PROMISES: A closed meeting on openness
By SHARON THEIMER (AP) – 7 hours ago

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WASHINGTON — It’s hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public.

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Yah have to, HAVE TO, HAVE TO laugh at these politicians.

And, the sheeple are fooled.

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RANT: Guess the “war” isn’t over

Sunday, December 6, 2009

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-happened-on-flight-297.html

Friday, December 04, 2009
What Happened on Flight 297

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If you were really paying attention, you might have heard about AirTran Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston, which was delayed on 18 November. According to the “official” version, (reported by Houston’s KHOU-TV, Fox News and other outlets), a male passenger refused to end his cell phone call, forcing the crew to return to the gate.

Since then, a far different version of events has emerged. Based on reports from other passengers, that “phone call” looks more like a terrorist dry run.

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Interesting. Too bad we don’t have a “free press” in the USA any more. Getting some facts would be nice!

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RANT: THe gooferment creating jobs? Yeah, right!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2009/12/04/how-to-create-real-jobs-mr-president/comment-page-1/#comment-119216

How To Create Real Jobs, Mr. President
Posted in December 4th, 2009

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I hear some of the folks in Washington were talking about creating jobs and it just made me cringe. Obviously, out here in the private sector one does not “create” a job. We create businesses that solve problems. Some of those businesses require people to run them, service accounts, and build stuff. While there are businesses that don’t require many workers, that’s still OK, because the person who figured out how to do more with fewer employees goes out and buys a new flat screen TV, new garage doors, and upgrades the furnace. Since I wasn’t invited to the White House jobs summit, I thought I would mail in a few of my suggestions:

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Dear WWDS:

Don’t quit your day job. :-) Not that ANY politician would follow anyone’s advice. But it can only be hoped they might accidently listen.

Cut the spending. Cut the size of gooferment. Cut the people free to create.

Note: Since the gooferment has several ways to tax people (i.e., direct unavoidable taxes like sales taxes, indirect yet avoidable taxes like income taxes, inflation to steal value from your wallet, debt which binds the current and future taxpayers, regulation that has fees, and direct theft by seizure.

On “corporate taxation”, I have yet to see ANY corporation “pay” taxes. By tax, I mean ANY collection from the company to the government regardless of label. They are just pass-along fictions to move along hidden taxation onto the backs of the people. And those sheeple are too stupid to realize.

Note: Impose a tax on a corporation and it passes it along. If the marketplace won’t pay the increase, corporation folds. So a “corporate tax” is just a hidden tax on real people. Only real people pay taxes.

If we truly want to “create jobs”, we must starve the pig that the gooferment has become.

A limit must be placed on the sources the gooferment uses to fund itself. Borrowing is the place to start. Don’t let them raise the debt ceiling. In fact, we should keep dropping the debt ceiling.

Then, we should eliminate the corporate “taxes”.

Yes, I said eliminate the corporate “taxes”!

Note: How fast would the corporate headquarters be coming back here?

Don’t forget, A corporate tax is any money that the government taxes from a company. So “fees” would be zero.

Repeal the income tax. Repeal.

Then and only then, will we truly be free.

All taxes, and other sources of funding, for the gooferment would be OBVIOUS!

ONLY REAL PEOPLE PAY TAXES.

Of course, the political class isn’t going to do this because then it would be OBVIOUS that the sheeple were being shorn.

Baahhh! Baahhh! Baahhh!

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INITIALISM: TINA

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

TINA

That Is No Accident

— Vincent Wright

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POLITICAL: Welfare is a gooferment growth industry

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

http://www.careerhubblog.com/main/2009/11/food-stamps-a-new-imac-and-happiness.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CareerHub+%28Career+Hub%29

Food Stamps, a New iMac and Happiness

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/us/29foodstamps.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=food%20stamps&st=cse

The Safety Net
Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
By JASON DePARLE and ROBERT GEBELOFF
Published: November 28, 2009

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Nationwide, food stamps reach about two-thirds of those eligible, with rates ranging from an estimated 50 percent in California to 98 percent in Missouri. Mr. Concannon urged lagging states to do more to enroll the needy, citing a recent government report that found a sharp rise in Americans with inconsistent access to adequate food.”

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Trust me; I am not uncharitable. BUT! This article really rankles me as a taxpayer. Despite being unemployed, I continue to make my charitable contributions because I feel that there are people who are worse off than me.

When you feed stray cats, (indiscriminately), you get more stray cats. Fat gooferment bureaucrats are self-interested in making sure they have continued employment. True charity has an element of involvement where we demand accountability. In my charitable contributions, I KNOW there is no one get rich off the poor and the poor are getting real help. (Anecdotally, the lady who runs one of the charities is convinced that the welfare bureaucrats’ sole objective is to keep their clients poor.)

Welfare isn’t charity. It is money extracted forcefully from taxpayers. And, after extracting a huge handling fee, dispensed to the politically favored group. Creating a permanent underclass of “welfare farmers” who vote for more benefits. We now have four generations of families that are stuck in the “family business” of collecting welfare. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” has been a total failure.

We need to take poverty seriously. And forced gooferment solutions have a long track record of failure. So lets, downsize government and let the people take care of the problem. The Salvation Army has a far better record on helping than any welfare office. And, at a much lower cost.

Argh! It’s frustrating. TO see people “trained” to accept this type of treatment.

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POLITICAL: Organ shortages kill people

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=117021

Another deadly government dictum
Walter E. Williams

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The Institute for Justice is not challenging Congress’ ban on compensation for solid organs such as hearts, kidneys, and livers. Instead, the lawsuit challenges only the provision of the National Organ Transplant Act that bans compensation for bone marrow. The premise of the Institute for Justice’s legal challenge is that there is a fundamental biological distinction between renewable marrow cells and nonrenewable solid organs. In the case of bone marrow, the donor’s bone marrow is completely replenished in a few weeks. That’s less time than it takes for the human body to fully replenish a pint of donated blood that is often sold to blood banks.

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Why are only the doctors and hospitals allowed to earn money from transplants?

We know that free markets are the ultimate in democratic freedom. No coercion. No fraud or force permitted.

Think of a poor family that has bury a loved one. Why shouldn’t they be allowed to have an “inheritance”? Why bury or incinerate the “family fortune”?

We have abysmal rates of organ donations. We have waiting lists of people dying. All because of our cultural reluctance to permit the buying and selling of organs. Free markets always “clear”. No free markets have “waiting lists”!

So lets nuke UNOS and put our friends at WalMart in charge of solving the problem.

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