The problem is that Mr. McClellan presents no major new detail to support his conclusions about Iraq, or even about the Administration’s deliberations about how to sell the war. This may be because he was the deputy press secretary for domestic issues during the run-up to war and thus rarely attended war strategy sessions.
Oil shale becomes economically viable when crude oil exceeds about $40 a barrel, unlike ethanol which seems to never become viable, because of land and water use issues. Shale oil is called 'synfuel'.Gasoline prices are through the roof and Americans are angry. Someone must be to blame and the obvious villain is "Big Oil" with its alleged ability to gouge consumers and achieve unconscionable, "windfall" profits. Congress is in a vile mood, and has dragged oil industry executives before its committees for show trials, issuing predictable threats of punishment, e.g. a "windfall profits tax."
But if there is a villain in all of this, it is Congress itself. That venerable body has made it impossible for U.S. producers of crude oil to tap significant domestic reserves of oil and gas, and it has foreclosed economically viable alternative sources of energy in favor of unfeasible alternatives such as wind and solar. In addition, Congress has slapped substantial taxes on gasoline. Indeed, as oil industry executives reiterated in their appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 21, 15% of the cost of gasoline at the pump goes for taxes, while only 4% represents oil company profits.
To understand the depth of congressional complicity in the high price of gasoline, one must understand that crude oil prices explain 97% of the variation in the pretax price of gasoline. That price, which has risen to record levels, is set by the intersection of supply and demand. On the one hand, world-wide demand has accelerated mainly due to the rapid growth of China and India.
...It has done so by preventing the exploitation by IOCs of reserves available in nonpark federal lands in the West, Alaska and under the waters off our coasts. These areas hold an estimated 635 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas – enough to meet the needs of the 60 million American homes fueled by natural gas for over a century. They also hold an estimated 112 billion barrels of recoverable oil – enough to produce gasoline for 60 million cars and fuel oil for 25 million homes for 60 years.
This doesn't even include substantial oil shale resources economically recoverable at oil prices substantially lower than those prevailing today. In an exchange between Sen. Orin Hatch (R., Utah) and John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Company during the May 21 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the point was made that anywhere from 800 million to two trillion barrels of oil are available from oil shale in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
If Congress really cared about the economic well-being of American citizens, it would stop fulminating against IOCs and reverse current policies that discourage, indeed prohibit, the production of domestic oil and natural gas. Even the announcement that Congress was opening the way for domestic production would lead to downward pressure on oil prices.Which is the key issue, the Democrat Socialist in Congress care about one thing and one thing only -- POWER. Get used to tyranny, it creeps up on you, especially when you are upset about what the tyrants want you to focus on, instead of what the real problem is.
Billions wasted on UN climate programmeHey, it's just your tax dollars going into this fraud, what do you care. Gas $4 a gallon got you down, buck it up, until you stop voting for the Democrat Socialists, nothing will change. You ain't seen nothing yet, wait until you get your electric and heating bills under the new Democrat Socialist's Senate "Strangle the US Economy Global Warming hoax bill" -- Otherwise known as Liberman-Warner, up for vote next week, debate starts June 2.
Billions of pounds are being wasted in paying industries in developing countries to reduce climate change emissions, according to two analyses of the UN's carbon offsetting programme.
Leading academics and watchdog groups allege that the UN's main offset fund is being routinely abused by chemical, wind, gas and hydro companies who are claiming emission reduction credits for projects that should not qualify. The result is that no genuine pollution cuts are being made, undermining assurances by the UK government and others that carbon markets are dramatically reducing greenhouse gases, the researchers say.
The criticism centres on the UN's clean development mechanism (CDM), an international system established by the Kyoto process that allows rich countries to meet emissions targets by funding clean energy projects in developing nations.
Face it, kids - he basically said - Americans are losers. Pathetic, needy dependents who can't make it without help. So forget your dreams, dear graduates. Go forth and aid your fellow deadbeats.
Never mind "The Audacity of Hope." Obama was trumpeting "The Ubiquity of Failure." "The Equality of Need." "The Endlessness of the Dole."
OK, I exaggerate - a little. Here are his actual words: "Our collective service can shape the destiny of this generation . . . Individual salvation depends on collective salvation."
That is, unless we come together and fix America's myriad flaws (like poverty, which never disappears), we're all doomed.
This went well past the standard graduation calls for community service and voluntarism. The senator chided those who seek life's material rewards: "Fulfilling your immediate wants and needs," he insisted, "betrays a poverty of ambition."
In fact, Obama himself was betraying a poverty of understanding US history.
Comrade Obama, he is not an American, he is a Communist, he never talks about his Marxist father, and what he might have taught him, to do so would expose the fact that pappy was the the right hand man for a Marxist thug. One of the elite snobs that Comrade Obama so aptly plays in real life.
Volcanic SO2 from the Etna volcano (Italy) as measured by GOME-2 on 14 May 2008 north-east of the volcano. The SO2 was emitted during the second eruption on 13 May 2008.
World leaders, including UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on Thursday hailed Baghdad’s progress in combatting violence and stabilising Iraq.A declaration adopted by 100 delegations at a Stockholm conference said the participants “recognised the important efforts made by the (Iraqi) government to improve security and public order and combat terrorism and sectarian violence across Iraq.”
It also acknowledged political and economic progress made, and said that “given the difficult context, these successes are all the more remarkable.”
More here.
NHS hospitals lose 32,000 beds in a decadeCosts sky-rocket with insatiable demand, the only possible solution is to cut back the number that can be taken in at a time -- Meaning, lengthen the lines.
More than 30,000 hospital beds have been lost since Labour came to power, with record cuts in NHS wards last year. The Department of Health claims bed numbers have fallen because hospitals are more efficient, with patients staying for shorter periods
The cutbacks mean increasing numbers of hospitals are going on "black alert" – which involves closing their doors to new patients because they are full.
Patients' groups described the loss of the beds, at a time when overcrowded wards have seen soaring rates of killer infections, as "a national scandal".
The reduction contradicts a pledge from Tony Blair at the turn of the century that there would be 7,000 more NHS beds by 2010. New figures, seen by The Telegraph, show that the number of health service beds fell more than 8,000 last year, as the NHS began a reorganisation process which will mean the closure of dozens of hospitals.
More than 40 per cent of maternity units turned away women in labour last year because they had no room.
Meanwhile, ambulances have been forced to queue outside overstretched hospitals, treating patients in car parks just yards from accident and emergency departments. The new statistics, revealed in response to a parliamentary question by Ed Vaizey, the Conservative MP, show that almost 32,000 NHS hospital beds went between 1997, when Labour took office, and 2007.
Leave it to the Democratic majority in Congress to fight rising gas prices and growing dependence on foreign oil by imposing a windfall-profits tax on U.S. petroleum companies, while refusing to let them tap America's vast oil and gas reserves in the Alaskan wilderness and offshore.Price too high, supply is too low. Simple economics. If you levee a punitive tax on it, you get less of it. Doesn't matter what 'it' is.
Congressional demagogues have always used "Big Oil" as a handy pejorative, but criticizing the oil industry now seems to be a national pastime on Capitol Hill, with both conservative and liberal Democrats piling on.
Part of the new wave of criticism, of course, stems from the fact that oil lagged behind the CPI for decades — serving as an important brake on runaway inflation. Now oil — along with food — is a prime cause of inflation.
Nevertheless, those politicians and pundits who now loudly denounce "Big Oil" for the surge in energy prices should seriously consider the consequences of imposing punitive windfall-profits taxes on an industry that is so critically important to the U.S. economy.
The most likely outcome is that a windfall-profits tax would produce the same result as a similar tax did in the 1980s — reducing investment in domestic oil production.
The windfall-profits tax that was adopted during President Jimmy Carter's administration drained tens of billions of dollars from the industry, money that could have been spent on energy exploration and production in the United States, and ended up increasing our reliance on foreign oil.
Further, that windfall-profits tax failed to raise a fraction of the revenue forecasted.
In other words, the windfall-profits tax of the 1980s failed miserably, and it would fail again this time around.
Sony Electronics has negotiated an agreement with the country’s major cable operators, which collectively pass over 105 million U.S. homes, to begin producing two-way digital cable ready products that will not require a separate set-top box.This could be a very big deal, as it buries a long running dispute between commercial equipment suppliers and cable companies. More here and here.
The company, which made the announcement in conjunction with the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), said the binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the six largest cable companies - Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Charter, Cablevision and Bright House Networks on the bi-directional cable initiative will open the doors for similar agreements with the cable MSOs and other consumer electronics companies. It is expected to make bi-directional cable-ready products available to more than 82 percent of U.S. cable subscribers.
Sony and the NCTA said other consumer electronics companies “have been invited to formally join the MOU.”
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Under the agreement the parties will adopt the Java-based “Tru2way” solution as the national interactive “plug-and-play” standard; new streamlined technology licenses; and new ways for content providers, consumer electronics manufacturers, information technology companies and cable operators to cooperate in evolving the Tru2way technology at Cable Television Laboratories (CableLabs), the cable industry's research and development consortium, Sony said.
A key element of the agreement involved the use of “write once, run anywhere” applications, and to the incorporation of secure digital interfaces that protect consumers' home recording rights along with copyright owners' rights to secure their digital content, Sony said. Exact details of MOU terms were not released to give other potential signatories time to complete their review of the document.
Whether it’s Billy Ayers or Bernadine Dohrn, Tom Hayden or Jane Fonda, or any of the other lesser-knowns, 60s Marxist radicals are lining up behind Obama.Tyranny has a way of coming on the wings of change.
Obama’s young worshippers think they see something altogether new, a unique persona, seemingly magically transported to this moment in history to help them finally be the ones to net the elusive butterfly of socialism’s never-realized promise.
The kids think they see something new. But do they?
Senate Democrats, dragging executives from five major U.S. oil companies before them for a second day, say they're alarmed by our "failed" oil markets. What they should be is ashamed.So ... exactly what do we replace markets with Sen Durbin? Tell us, don't try and hide, be like Maxine Waters did Wednesday, be up front with the plan -- SOCIALISM, right Senator? Socialism, the biggest failure ever known.
After all, it's mostly the fault of the Congress that we're in this mess. True, the Big 5 announced profits of $36 billion in the first quarter, as oil breached $100 a barrel and just kept going. This prompted nothing but contempt from Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin this week: "Where is your corporate conscience?" he asked the oil executives, forced to sit and listen.
Well, markets have failed. But the failure is due to Congress' refusal to let oil companies drill on federal lands, thereby cutting sharply into our supply of crude as world demand grows and prices soar both here and abroad
Homeland Security is furiously working to complete construction of a planned 670 miles of fence along the southern border before the Bush administration ends in eight months. Critics, particularly in Texas, are working just as hard to derail the project, citing environmental concerns, private-property seizure and a hefty price tag.Isn't that what the American people asked when they said no to AMNESTY and yes to enforce the laws that exists. Employers will not hire when the penalties will be enforced.
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According to a 2007 study by the Congressional Research Service, the fence could cost as much as $70 million a mile to build and maintain over the next 25 years. At 670 miles, that would run as high as $47 billion, which doesn't include the cost to acquire land.
The fence near Rancho Anapra replaces an old fence that Border Patrol agents readily acknowledge did little to deter migrants and dope smugglers. The new one rises 15 feet to 18 feet out of the Chihuahuan desert, reinforced by steel bollards and six feet of reinforced concrete beneath.
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As recently as a year ago, residents here say their dusty Mexican village -- a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez -- was a popular staging ground for migrants and dope smugglers. But the fence project and a corresponding spike in the law enforcement presence across the border have slowed the illegal traffic considerably.
SCHUMER: What does the president do? He takes out the old saw of ANWR. ANWR wouldn’t produce a drop of oil in ten years, and it’s estimated that if they drilled in ANWR, in 20 years it would reduce the price one penny. We’ve been pushing for a long time for energy efficiency. We believe in a price-gouging bill so that the big oil companies can’t collude. We believe that there’s too much speculation in the markets, and we believe that ought to be reined in.
So why did Schumer make this argument two weeks later on the Senate floor:
One penny decrease for American oil but 62 plus cents price decrease for Saudi oil?SCHUMER: If Saudi Arabia were to increase its production by 1 million barrels per day that translates to a reduction of 20 percent to 25 percent in the world price of crude oil, and crude oil prices could fall by more than $25 dollar per barrel from its current level of $126 per barrel. In turn, that would lower the price of gasoline between 13 percent and 17 percent, or by more than 62 cents off the expected summer regular-grade price — offering much needed relief to struggling families.
There is also need for a parallel gas pipeline to be able to bring the gas in the Prudhoe Bay area to market. A new pipeline would carry the ANWR oil to the Prudhoe Bay pipeline head-end.
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“And guess what this member would be all about? This member would be all about socializing — er, uh. [Pauses for several moments] …. would be about … [pause] … basically … taking over, and the government running all of your companies.”Socialists/Marxists/Communists they are all Democrats now.
The U.S. Postal Service purchased more than 30,000 ethanol-capable trucks and minivans from 1999 to 2005, making it the biggest American buyer of alternative-fuel vehicles. Gasoline consumption jumped by more than 1.5 million gallons as a result.So isn't this the wrong way, gas consumption is up?
``You're getting fewer miles per gallon, and it's costing us more,'' Walt O'Tormey, the Postal Service's Washington-based vice president of engineering, said in an interview. The agency may buy electric vehicles instead, he said.Yes, that's what people say, about 30% less mpg, thanks for checking that out on the taxpayers dime. A suggestion, next time, why not buy just one, and run some tests -- Did you have to buy 30,000 just because you could?
The experience shows how the U.S. push for crop-based fuels, already contributing to the highest rate of food inflation in 17 years, may not be achieving its goal of reducing gasoline consumption. Lawmakers are seeking caps on the use of biofuels after last year's 40 percent jump in world food prices, calling the U.S. policy flawed.Yaw think, why is that? Drives up both food and energy costs, isn't that what the Democrat Socialists want?
``Using food for fuel has created some unintended consequences: food shortages, the high price of livestock feed,'' said Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican. ``I think it's leading a lot of people to wonder whether our corn-based ethanol goals need to be adjusted.''
Stimulating Demand
Lost in the debate over the fuel's contribution to food scarcity is the possibility that the ethanol policy itself isn't working, said David Just, an associate professor of economics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It may stimulate demand by making gas cheaper, he said, an argument supported by at least two U.S. government studies.Really, what was your first clue? Could it be that ethanol is a lousy fuel, that's why Henry Ford switched to gasoline, helps to know your history. Yes, a similar path was taken with diesel, it was first peanut oil, but the refining and use showed how much superior oil was, so the biodiesel was dropped. Why do we think it's any different today?
The Energy Independence and Security Act, passed in December, called for ethanol production to more than double to 15 billion gallons in 2015 from 6.5 billion last year. The U.S. pays oil refiners like Exxon Mobil Corp. 51 cents in tax refunds for each gallon of ethanol they blend into regular gasoline. Automakers get extra credit toward federal fuel-efficiency standards for models that can run on ethanol.One tankful is all you will need, then you too will know that miles per gallon goes substantially down, while paying the same price or higher for fuel. Sound like a good deal to you?
Iraq could have largest oil reserves in the worldThat would frost a few Democrat Socialists plans for a smaller more miserable America. It would also up the stakes for getting Iraq to a stable government and able to drastically increase the amount of oil it exported -- Now standing at about 2.5 mBPD.
Iraq dramatically increased the official size of its oil reserves yesterday after new data suggested that they could exceed Saudi Arabia’s and be the largest in the world.
The Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister told The Times that new exploration showed that his country has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, with as much as 350 billion barrels. The figure is triple the country’s present proven reserves and exceeds that of Saudi Arabia’s estimated 264 billion barrels of oil. Barham Salih said that the new estimate had been based on recent geological surveys and seismic data compiled by “reputable, international oil companies . . . This is a serious figure from credible sources.”
Al Gore and his minions continue to chant that "the science is settled" on global warming, but the only thing settled is that there has not been any since 1998. Critics of this view (rightfully) argue that 1998 was the warmest year in modern record, due to a huge El Nino event in the Pacific Ocean, and that it is unfair to start any analysis at a high (or a low) point in a longer history. But starting in 2001 or 1998 yields the same result: no warming.Read the rest of the article. Global-warming myth
Science no longer provides justification for any rush to pass drastic global warming legislation. The Climate Security Act, sponsored by Joe Lieberman and John Warner, would cut emissions of carbon dioxide — the main "global warming" gas — by 66 percent over the next 42 years. With expected population growth, this means about a 90 percent drop in emissions per capita, to 19th-century levels.
He views Iran's nuclear threat as "tiny." He'd meet with its leader, who is pledged to Israel's destruction. His adviser wants Israel to disarm. Clearly, Barack Obama is running for Jimmy Carter's second term.Good opener, now here is the knockout punch
If we've been particularly hard on Sen. Obama in recent days, it's because he's a gift that keeps on giving. He consistently demonstrates his lack of qualifications to be commander in chief based on experience, worldview and judgment.
His latest foray into dangerous naivete came while campaigning Sunday in Pendleton, Ore. He told the assembled multitude: "Iran? Cuba? Venezuela? — these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us."
He went on to defend his policy of "aggressive personal diplomacy" and called for "tough, disciplined and direct diplomacy. That's what Kennedy did. That'd what Reagan did."
Well, not quite.
Obama responded during a campaign stop Monday in Billings, Mont.: "The Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have one." And he'll probably believe that right up to the moment the phone rings at 3 a.m. and he hears: "Mr. President, Tel Aviv has been nuked."IBD nails the naive unfit for Presidential duty Obama. The poor guy has all the voice inflection and nuance down, makes the kiddies shiver, but he just doesn't have the brains or experience to be President of America.
Many solar scientists expected the new sunspot cycle to be a whopper, a prolonged solar tantrum that could fry satellites and raise hell with earthly communications, the power grid and modern electronics.Today the sun is quite with two little dots of cycle 23 polarity.
But there's scant proof Sunspot Cycle 24 is even here, let alone the debut of big trouble.
So far there have been just a couple minor zits on the face of the sun to suggest the old cycle is over and the new one is coming.
The roughly 11-year cycle of sunspot activity should have bottomed out last year, the end of Cycle 23 and the beginning of Cycle 24. That would have put the peak in new sunspot activity around 2012.
But a dud sunspot cycle would not necessarily make it a boring period, especially for two solar scientists with the Tucson-based National Solar Observatory.
Two years ago, William Livingston and Matt Penn wrote a paper for the journal Science predicting that this could not only be a dud sunspot cycle, but the start of another extended down period in solar activity. It was based on their analysis of weakening sunspot intensity and said sunspots might vanish by 2015.
And here's the punch line: That last long-term down period, 1645-1715, coincided with the Little Ice Age, a period of bitter cold winters.
That kind of talk could ruffle some feathers in this time of climate change and global warming, starring man-made carbon dioxide as the devil.
Wall Street Journal publishes a column by former principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration Andrew Biggs on "Obama's faulty tax argument." Like his imporobable history, Obama's argument in favor of higher taxes is both staightforward and misleading. If Obama is elected president, we can count on at least two things: bad economic policy and bad foreign policy. And we won't be able to say we weren't warned.
by Mark Steyn
Iain Murray linked to this story over at Planet Gore but neglected the hilarious headline:
Global Warming May 'Stop', Scientists Predict
- but hopefully not before we've wrecked the global economy to "address" the "problem".
And isn't that just what the Democrat Marxists Hussein Obama and Ms Clinton want?"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.That's not freedom, liberty or American, that's fascism.
"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.
Michelle Obama, 2008
What we do know is telling the truth about Hussein Obama drives him nuts, he particularly likes to be called an APPEASER, which he is.“The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM)Looks like there are a whole lot more than a couple of scientists that reject the Al Gore unproven theory of AGW. Mathematical computer models prove nothing, zilch, nada, zip, until they can predict the present, they haven't a clue about the future. This rejection is probably because Al Gore's unproven theory has not met the global test of proof. It simply cannot can't stand the rigor of analysis and experiment, which makes AGW just another of the long line of liberal hoaxes.
Who: Dr. Arthur Robinson of the OISM
What: release of names in OISM “Petition Project”
When: 10 AM, Monday May 19
Where: Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC
Why: the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. The purpose of OISM’s Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.
It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science - including 9,021 PhDs, are not “a few.” Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not “skeptics.”
Energy costs drive the price of everything in America. Raise energy costs, the price of all goods goes shooting up, like today. Tax cuts and bailouts don't work, because costs keep climbing. Well, now we have made the dumbest mistake of all, we coupled energy costs to our food costs. Even Jimmy Carter wasn't this stupid. Biofuels will destroy the world by starvation and deforestation -- Count on it.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell, "1984"-- Watch the movie, or even better, read the book.
The number of hurricanes and tropical storms forming over the Atlantic may drop this century because of global warming, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a study that contradicts prior research.The scientists took a climate model that mirrors the increase in Atlantic storms in recent years, and then plugged in forecasts for future warming. The results, published online yesterday in Nature Geoscience, showed a decline in the numbers of both hurricanes and tropical storms.
Today's study challenges theories that climate change will boost storminess. Research last year led by Greg Holland, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, linked last century's increase in hurricane activity to warmer sea surface temperatures.
``This study does not support the notion that increasing greenhouse gases are causing a large increase in Atlantic hurricane or tropical storm frequency,'' the paper's lead author, Thomas Knutson, a NOAA scientist, said May 16 in a conference call with reporters. ``Rather for future climate conditions we simulate a reduction.''
The hoaxers really needs to give it a rest, these predictions are getting so outlandish. What we know about global warming, you could write a book, what we don't know would fill a library. We need to just admit that and stop the nonsense. Next they will be blaming the Chinese Wenchauan Earthquake on global warming, cracking the Earth's crust like an overdone hard boiled egg or some such nonsense.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.--- This last one we should pay particular attention to, what man knows about global wamring, you could write a book, what he doesn't know, would fill a library.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Delay is preferable to error.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
The active fault zone that caused a powerful earthquake Monday in Sichuan Province, China, is believed to have made the land to shift by as much as 13 meters, according to seismic wave analysis by Tokyo University's Earthquake Research Institute.Probably caused by global warming, ya think.
The largest shift occurred in a mountainous area in Wenchuan County, about 50 kilometers northeast of the epicenter, according to the institute. Strong jolts and landslides may have caused massive damage in the county, although the extent of the damage in the area is not yet known.
The active fault zone is thought to be about 300 kilometers long. Kazuhito Hikima, a contracted researcher at the institute, examined how the fault zone was formed based on records of seismic waves observed across the world.
Sen. William Borah who, on hearing of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, lamented: "Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided."In honoring Israel before members of the Knesset on its 60th anniversary on May 14th, President Bush said:
Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.President Bush never mentioned Obama by name.
... talks provide a splendid cover for getting on with anything you want to do. If, say, you want to get on with your nuclear program relatively undisturbed, the easiest way to do it is to enter years of endless talks with the Europeans over said nuclear program. That's why that Hamas honcho endorsed Obama: They know he's their best shot at getting a European foreign minister installed as president of the United States.The moo-ssiah thinks he should be left alone to moo-ssiah jive talk undisturbed. Obama is just a child who lies when he gets caught
Pay more in taxes and the government will pretend to control the weatherThat's the nut in the global warming hoax. You buy it?
SocialismTaken as a whole, it's the essence of the age old communist pipe dream.
The first false premise is that society is absolutely and unequivocally responsible for establishing and maintaining a safety net for those less fortunate, or so the government tells us after almost 80 years of intense, mind-numbing propaganda and enabling legislation. Now you won’t find one mention of a government duty to provide welfare in our Constitution
Radical Environmentalism
One of the great false premises of all time, that borders and mass hysteria, is the premise that man is “killing” the planet and must therefore be regulated to death and stripped of taxes, property and life style.
One World Order
Finally, we have the propaganda of the one-world-order premise being heaped upon us from all directions. This false premise drives government policy towards open borders, comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty by any other name), a questionable union of the U. S., Canada and Mexico, free trade agreements, radical environmental treaties, international law-making by executive order, and the like, without congressional ratification.
Green tax revolt: Britons 'will not foot bill to save planet'Works for me ... Now that NASA says global warming is taking a 10-30 year holiday, who is to say that nature wasn't doing the warming all along. Oh sure, man might have caused a small insignificant part of it, and there is no doubt that the Earth has been warming steadily since the 1700s and the end of the Little Ice Age at about 0.5-0.7 C per century, but no where near the catastrophic levels that the Goracle preaches, and surely by any sane metric not enough to warrant destroying our life style.
More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll.
The survey also reveals that most Britons believe "green" taxes on 4x4s, plastic bags and other consumer goods have been imposed to raise cash rather than change our behaviour, while two-thirds of Britons think the entire green agenda has been hijacked as a ploy to increase taxes.
The findings make depressing reading for green campaigners, who have spent recent months urging the Government to take far more radical action to reduce Britain's carbon footprint. The UK is committed to reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, a target that most experts believe will be difficult to reach. The results of the poll by Opinium, a leading research company, indicate that maintaining popular support for green policies may be a difficult act to pull off, and attempts in the future to curb car use and publicly fund investment in renewable resources will prove deeply unpopular.
