Like a true lady, America has been generous with her dance card. She has allowed 43 different men to escort her onto the floor, one of them on two separate occasions. Each man has been strikingly different from the next. They have varied in age, religion, race, ethnicity, education, social status and philosophy.
Some have guided her with skill and grace. Twirling her elegantly in time with the music, encouraging her proudly to display the breadth of her beauty. They have allowed her to absorb the spotlight while following her lead.
Others have not been such selfless partners. There are those who have stepped on her toes because they’ve chosen to dance to a different beat than the one she is hearing. A few have even spiked her punch and attempted to convince her to relinquish her values in exchange for theirs.
She never abandons any of these gentlemen before the music has stopped. She always makes good on the contract of her dance card. At times she’s basked in the warmth of the spotlight. But she has also known the frigid depths of the shadow cast by a partner’s ego. All the while she has kept her head held high and her principles close. She has remained dignified, humble and open to dancing with whomever she is paired.
She currently finds herself in the arms of a man who wishes to guide her across the floor in a manner with which she is completely unfamiliar. To her this dance is completely foreign and seems to be leading in an uncharted direction. She is finding it increasingly more difficult to will her feet to comply with these new steps. The result is two dancers spinning quite clumsily and entirely haphazardly across the floor.
America is tripping over the feet of a man who wants her to follow his lead, to conform to his chosen rhythm. He cares little about the proper execution of the predetermined choreography; he has brought his own drummer.
There are some who are in awe of the brazen manner of America’s latest dance partner. His approach is new and different. His arrogant steps are sloppy and have fallen out of time with the music., but they happily overlook the quality of his performance, because they love his style.
Other audience members are staring in wide-eyed disbelief as America, their consummate favorite and reigning champion is being made to look like an amateur. They pray that she can last the length of this song. Can she maintain her dignity when she is being made to look like such a fool? Can she recover after so many missteps? Will she live to dance another day?
If she holds true to what she knows to be right, she can regain control of the pace. She can finish strong and smiling and will retain her standing in the world. But if she chooses to acquiesce to her partner’s will, her bright star will be extinguished forever.
The outcome will be decided by a two-judge panel presided over by Time and History. These two may have the final say as to her fate, but their decision is highly susceptible to public opinion. Now is not a time for shyness, applaud if you like the show you’re watching or boo if you’re unimpressed, believe me the judges are all ears.
Early this morning central Italy was rocked by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. It has left over 100 dead and thousands homeless. Many world leaders have offered their condolences and have pledged monetary aid. Considering the Washington spending spree that commenced the moment Barack Obama took office one might assume that we would be cutting Italy a check with a minimum of six figures. If you count the change there are seven figures present in the $50,000.00 that Obama has pledged in aid to Italy. While our President is on a world tour claiming a major change in the tone of US foregin relations is the best we can offer Italy really only fifty thousand dollars?
The Italians should be insulted especially considering that during his first month in office President Obama approved $900,000,000 in aid to the Palestinians for rebuilding efforts in Gaza. These funds were pledged to Gaza despite the well known fact that Gaza is controlled by Hamas. For those of you unfamiliar with Hamas I’ll give you a brief overview of this organization; Hamas is a militant Palestinian organization founded in the late 1960’s, which refuses to recognize the state of Israel. It operates a terrorist wing which has carried out over 350 attacks including suicide bombings and short-range rocket attacks on the Israeli people. Hamas became the controlling party of the Palestinian legislature in 2006.
President Obama has quickly and drastically changed the tone of US foreign relations and policies. We’re now giving hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to one of the most despicable organizations on the planet so that they may rebuild an area that has been decimated as a direct result of their militant actions. While in the case of the Italian government who have suffered destruction due to no fault of their own, we’re giving them less than one tenth of one percent of what we gave to Gaza. So is aiding groups who support terrorist activities with millions of US dollars while offering embarrassingly small amounts to a country who came to our aid following hurricane Katrina and is now dealing with a natural disaster on its on soil, the kind of change so many hoped to see when they voted for President Obama?
You may be thinking, wow that’s some harsh language you’ve chosen and that it may be, but it is a far superior explanation of what the so-called Cap and Trade legislation really does. The choice of such innocuous language, Cap-and-Trade, is in no way accidental. It is an integral part of disguising the dangerous repercussions which will certainly ensue if this agenda is adopted by the United States. I refuse to allow this manipulation of language to mask the reality of the situation which is this; Cap and Trade amounts to slapping a fine on harmless carbon emissions, raping industries of their profits and will lead to the eventual destruction of all industrial nations.
This agenda which the Obama Administration supports, is being pushed by the ‘green’ environmental movement and is tantamount to a toxin which will infect and kill American industry at the same time placing a heavy burden upon all American taxpayers. When taxes are levied against businesses the costs of those taxes are inevitably passed on to the consumer. The price of goods and services will increase to compensate for the revenues lost due to the taxation. I implore you, please do not be lulled into complacency by President Obama’s empty promise of tax cuts for “95% of working Americans”. The Commander in Chief himself has admitted, ever so quietly that energy bills will necessarily skyrocket for everyone should this legislation be enacted.
Now, I’d like to address the alleged consensus of Global Warming/Climate Change. Regardless of what ideologues like Al Gore would like you to believe, THERE IS NO CONSENSUS ON GLOBAL WARMING SCIENCE! Every year an increasing number of scientists are challenging the findings of the IPCC (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). There is a petition being circulated with the signatures of over 31,000 scientists to date, which urges the United States government to reject the Kyoto Agreement. It also points out that there is no convincing evidence that the human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases are or will cause a disruption of Earth’s climate. For reasons unknown these factual assertions of these scientists continue to go unreported while the alarmists environmentalists are heralded and never questioned regarding the merits of their garbage science.
For over two decades environmentalists have been pushing their agenda. They brazenly wield the sword of fear to accomplish their goals. They insight undue panic with their outlandish claims and are never held to account when their junk science falls apart. Case in point: In the fourth grade (1987) I was taught that hole had appeared in the ozone layer. This hole was a result of Chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs. These evil little molecules were being released into the atmosphere via aerosols. I remember pleading with my grandmother to discontinue her use of Aquanet hairspray because it was destroying our planet. As a nine-year-old the environmentalists had me convinced that humans although infinitesimally small in comparison to the earth, had the ability to influence and manipulate it’s atmosphere.
Environmentalists effectively lobbied for the banning of CFC’s. The ban came into effect with the signing of the Copenhagen Protocol of 1992. Now I ask you to think about the last time you heard mention of the hole in the ozone. My guess is it’s been at least a decade, and why is that? Has the hole closed up because those vicious CFCs are no longer invading the atmosphere? Nope, the hole is still there although the nomenclature has been changed. It is no longer called a hole but rather according to NASA, it is a ‘region of exceptionally depleted ozone in the stratosphere.’
So if the hole or ‘exceptionally depleted ozone in the stratosphere’ still exists why aren’t the environmentalists talking about it? I can only assume that it has stopped being profitable for them. The research grants have dried up, and even though the hole or whatever you choose to call it, persists to this day it is no longer a concern of theirs. Now as a twenty nine-year-old I stand completely convinced that they have no idea what they are talking about. I simply refuse to allow them to sucker me into believing their science or their altruistically cloaked motives. They have moved onto the much more profitable agenda of Global Warming/Climate Change (hundreds of billions are spent on Global warming research grants each year). Their target this time is CO2 which they claim to be the a dangerous green house gas chiefly responsible for Global Warming. They blatantly ignore the inescapable fact that human beings and animals exhale CO2 and plants in essence inhale CO2. They also choose to overlook the fact that huge amounts of CO2 are produced by Earth’s oceans and volcanoes.
The environmentalists who are trying to slap a tax on cow farts are the same ones screaming that Cap and Trade legislation must be passed. These people are deaf and blind when it comes to true scientific research about Global Warming/Climate Change. The Earth has always gone through cooling periods and warming periods and will continue to do so as long as it exists. They seem to at least recognize this to the extent that they have changed their language once again, Global Warming is now slowly morphing into Climate Change. Calling it Global Warming only made sense when temperatures were rising, but since 2003 global temperatures have been declining. Instead of admitting their lack of indisputable scientific evidence, they simply change the name to something that can never be called into question; Climate Change as it encompasses all possible temperature shifts, .
This language is simply preposterous. Climate or temperature if you prefer, is constantly changing, it did so before the first human graced the face of the Earth and will continue to do so the Earth ceases to exists. Yes it’s true, the Earth does have a finite life-span, but we humans will have nothing to do with it’s demise. You see the Sun’s gravitational force is ever so slowly pulling all of the planets toward it. The closer the Earth’s orbit gets to the sun, the hotter the Earth will become and eventually the Earth will be swallowed up the sun. There is nothing that can stop this from happening.
We can not allow the propaganda of the radical environmental movement to corrupt the logic and facts of the situation. We must pick apart their phony claim that CO2 emissions must be taxed because they are destroying our planet. We must point out that if CO2 is as detrimental as the environmentalist would like us to believe, then he would be calling for an outright ban on CO2 emissions. He would not accept monetary compensation as an acceptable trade-off for that which he deems poison being released into the atmosphere. His goal in reality has nothing to do with the environment but everything to do with the halting of human progress. He wishes to kill all industry and advancement. His ideal world is one with no livestock, no cars, no buildings and no factories. He believes the caveman to be more in tune with the Earth and therefore superior to the modern industrialist. He has set out to force modern man back into the caves, and Cap-and-Trade shall be his greatest victory in this battle. A victory we must never allow him to achieve.
President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi created this situation by insisting the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act be passed immediately. This ensured that no one had the time to read it let alone debate any aspect of it. The nation was in crisis and we needed to act quickly and blindly in order to save our very existence. Look at where it has gotten us. We have Barney Frank demanding that Edward Liddy, CEO of AIG, reveal the names of the executives that received the bonuses he approved when he signed a bill he hadn’t read. Liddy said he would not do so unless Frank could ensure the safety of the executives. Frank scoffed at this, and threatened court action to obtain the names. Demanding the names of American citizens, in a public forum, that did nothing more than receive a monetary bonus that Representative Frank voted for himself is deplorable. What purpose does it serve to share these innocent individuals’ names other than to make them targets? A lightening rod for the American people’s anger to strike, while Frank and his Democrat cohorts quickly pass a new, unconstitutional law, which will strip these executives of 90% of the Congress-approved bonuses they received.
At the same time we have the White House and the Treasury Secretary claiming ignorance. They had no idea the provision existed. This claim is a a blatant lie, an insult to my intelligence and that of my fellow citizens. Despite my public school education and state university degree, I am literate. I had no difficulty reading and understanding the language clearly laid out in the aptly named;TITLE VI – EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION section of the bill. I can easily explain why no one seems to have read this portion as it appears at the tail end of the mammoth bill which no one could bear to read in its entirety.
Ladies and gentleman, our Congress and President believe you to be completely devoid of intelligence, in fact they are counting on this. They aim to stoke the flames of class envy. They want you to be angry with a group of executives who did nothing illegal. In fact they played by the rules established upon the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. I implore you, do not let them fool you. Demanding 90% of this money be returned makes them the only criminals in this scenario.
I repeat, the government doesn’t make money, they take money. The only money that the government has is mine and that of every other tax paying US citizen. The government accumulates our money via taxation then presto ‘government money’. People are overlooking this most basic of principals if they believe that the government has the funds to provide them with health insurance when they cannot afford it themselves. The only thing the government can really give you is your money back.
More ’stimulating’ spending in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009, The National Cemetery Administration will be receiving $50,000,000 for ‘monument and memorial repairs, including energy projects’. Energy projects? How does one make a ‘greener’ cemetery with all those pesky corpses releasing methane gas as they decompose?
With a treasury secretary that doesn’t pay his taxes and numerous other cabinet appointees withdrawing over similar ‘oversights’, I’m not surprised to learn that the DNC doesn’t pay their bills either. The Chicago Sun Times reported on Friday that the DNC has yet to pay the city for the Obama victory bash it threw back on November 4th. The outstanding balance is $1.74 million and with the city of Chicago facing over a $50 million budget shortfall, that money could prove helpful in saving jobs, you know that little ‘three letter word‘ President Obama made one of the cornerstones of his campaign. Am I expected to believe that the same DNC that spent over $760 million dollars on the Obama campaign doesn’t have $1.74 million to pay for the huge pat on the back party it threw? According to opensecrets.org the Obama campaign as of December 31, 2008 still had over $15 million in campaign contributions in their possession, so why has this debt gone unpaid? If this behavior were practiced by anyone outside of the government they would be thrown in jail. Somehow these dead beats not only avoid prosecution, they’re now lecturing us on fiscal responsibility. Ridiculous.
Under Title II of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, subheading Department of Justice, I found this amazing expenditure of money that is bound to stimulate; $400,000,000 for ‘Science’. What the hell does that mean, ’science’ and what kind of ’science’ is the Department of Justice pursuing? I have half a mind to haul my cookies down to Washington, walk onto the floor of the Senate, introduce myself as ‘Science’ and demand they hand over a check for $400,000,000. On a scale of ingenious to insane, I give this an inane.
People have lost their minds over this cartoon published by the New York Post because it features a monkey. Well technically, it’s not a monkey. It’s actually a fifteen year old chimpanzee named Travis formerly of Connecticut. Travis had a bad day earlier this week and despite the Xanax he was fed, he snapped and removed the hands and face of a nice neighbor lady that only wanted to help him. The police arrived and put an end to Travis. The cartoon simply depicts this stranger than fiction tragedy.
The comment being made by the police officer, ‘They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill” refers to congress, the people who actually wrote the stimulus bill. I do not believe the chimp is meant to be representative of President Obama nor do I believe that was the intention of the New York Post or the cartoonist, Sean Delonas.
But what if shock shock horror horror, Delonas did intend the chimp to be representative of the president? Is the use of a simian automatically racist? The same characterization was made of President Bush hundreds of times with no racial connotation, they were merely calling him a moron.
Al Sharpton who lives for this crap, didn’t think the chimp was meant to symbolize the idiocy of our congress. To him it was obviously representative of Obama. He and 200 extremely offended others took to the streets and protested outside of the Post’s New York offices. I hope that those protesters were unemployed. If those people were ditching work over a drawing they deserve to lose their jobs especially in this economy. I mean really, it’s just a cartoon.
Under Title II of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 subheading Department of Commerce, I found something I deem patently absurd and blatantly ridiculous; $650,000,000 being allocated for the ‘Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program’. I’m going to assume that you’re all aware of the shift in television broadcasting from an analog signal to a digital one. This conversion will only effect those still using an antenna to obtain their television signal. For reasons of economic stimulus and recovery, $650,000,000 will be spent to ensure that these antenna users will have easier access to the digital signal via $40 coupons to obtain a digital converter box. Wow, these converter boxes must be expensive right? Wrong, they cost on average $49.99. There is no eligibility requirement to receive this coupon and the only limitation I could find was 2 coupons per-household. We’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars so that people can watch tv? At least the millions of unemployed won’t be bored. The best part though is of the $650,000,000 being allocated; ‘$90,000,000 may be for education and outreach, including grants to organizations for programs to educate vulnerable populations, including senior citizens, minority communities, people with disabilities, low-income individuals, and people living in rural areas, about the transition and to provide one-on-one assistance to vulnerable populations, including help with converter box installation.’ Unbelievable. I wonder how much of that $90,000,000 I could get to teach my grandparents and their fellow ‘vulnerables’ in Florida how to hookup their cable boxes? On a scale of awful to amazing, I’m gonna have to give this one an abismal.
I repeat, the government doesn’t make money, they take money. The only money that the government has is mine and that of every other tax paying US citizen. The government accumulates our money via taxation then presto ‘government money’. People are overlooking this most basic of principals if they believe that the government has the funds to provide them with health insurance when they cannot afford it themselves. The only thing the government can really give you is your money back.
More ’stimulating’ spending in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of 2009, The National Cemetery Administration will be receiving $50,000,000 for ‘monument and memorial repairs, including energy projects’. Energy projects? How does one make a ‘greener’ cemetery with all those pesky corpses releasing methane gas as they decompose?
But what if shock shock horror horror, Delonas did intend the chimp to be representative of the president? Is the use of a simian automatically racist? The same characterization was made of President Bush hundreds of times with no racial connotation, they were merely calling him a moron.
