I just wanted to take this opportunity to wish Nancy, Harry and the rest of our wonderful elected officials in conrgress a nice, relaxing and refreshing vacation!
Oh, almost forgot. Nancy....Thanks for your efforts to save the world! It's about time we had a leader in congress who is willing to put the good of the people before her agenda, and, also to put compromise before partisanship, for the good of the country!
Reality check.....
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121754801152902691.
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I've been hearing reports for the last couple of days that the Green Bay Packers have offered Brent Farve 20 million dollars to stay retired!
HUH!
The Packers obvioulsy don't want to trade Farve to a team in their own division, and, Farve seems insistent on making them do just that. I've also heard that the Packers plan on having a Brent Farve night during a game against...guess who? The Minnesota Vikings! The Vikings are the Team Farve really wants to play for this year. How ironic would that be if Farve signs with the Vikes?
Anyway, If Farve decides to take the money and chill, does that lessen his image /reputation in your eyes?
These lobbyist wield a ton of power and influence in Washington. Polititicans on both sides of the aisle are kowtowing to them more often than not. Humanity has become secondary to their agenda of controlling more and more aspects of our daliy lives.
Sound far fetched?
The following article, by award winning writer Dr. Walter E. Williams, shows some of the problems that they have already caused, and, some scary scenarios that could possibly unfold in our future.....
A Country At Mercy Of Environmentalists
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS | Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Let's face it. The average individual American has little or no clout with Congress and can be safely ignored. But it's a different story with groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy.
When they speak, Congress listens. Unlike the average American, they are well organized, loaded with cash and well positioned to be a disobedient congressman's worse nightmare. Their political and economic success has been a near disaster for our nation.
For several decades, environmentalists have managed to get Congress to keep most of our oil resources off-limits to exploration and drilling.
They've managed to have the Congress enact onerous regulations that have made refinery construction impossible.
Similarly, they've used the courts and Congress to completely stymie the construction of nuclear power plants. As a result, energy prices are at historical highs and threaten our economy and national security.
What's the political response to our energy problems? It's more congressional and White House kowtowing to environmentalists, farmers and multibillion-dollar corporations such as Archer Daniels Midland.
Their "solution," rather than to solve our oil supply problem by permitting drilling for the billions upon billions of barrels of oil beneath the surface of our country, is to enact the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. That mandates that oil companies increase the amount of ethanol mixed with gasoline.
Anyone with an ounce of brains would have realized that diverting crops from food to fuel use would raise the prices of corn-fed livestock, such as pork, beef, chicken and dairy products, and products made from corn, such as cereal.
Ethanol production has led to increases in the prices of other grains, such as soybean and wheat. Since the U.S. is the world's largest grain producer and exporter, higher grain prices have had a huge impact on food prices worldwide.
Congress and the environmentalists aren't through with us. If you're bothered by skyrocketing food and energy prices, wait until Congress reintroduces its environmentalist-inspired Climate Security Act, so-called cap and trade.
Cap and trade is deceptively peddled as a free-market solution to the yet-to-be-settled issue of man-made climate change. Under its provisions, companies would be able to emit greenhouse gases only if they had a government allowance.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that a 15% cut in emissions would raise the annual average household's energy cost by $1,300.
Since energy is an input to everything we use, we can expect everything to become costlier, resulting in a reduction in economic growth.
There's a hateful side to cap and trade that's revealed by asking the question: How will it be decided who received how much allowance to emit greenhouse gases?
Congress could sell the allowances and/or give them away to favorite constituents. You can bet the rent money that a new army of lobbyists, with special pleadings, will descend on Washington to lobby Congress. And you can be sure that campaign contributions and favoritism will play an important role in the decision of who receives what allowances.
Much worse than that is the massive control government would have over our economy and lives. Congress might decide that since tobacco use is unhealthy, it might not issue allowances to tobacco companies.
While many Americans might applaud that, how many would like Congress to refuse to issue allowances to companies that produce food that some people deem unhealthy such as french fries, sodas, canned soups and potato chips?
Congress might deny, or threaten to deny, allowances to companies that in its opinion didn't hire enough women and minorities. The possibilities for control over our lives would be endless and could include nuisance-type edicts such a requiring us to buy a permit to barbecue in our backyard.
The thirst to wield massive control over our economy helps explain the near religious belief in man-made global warming and the attacks on scientists and others who offer contradictory evidence.
Copyright 2008 Creators Syndicate,
Penn & Teller have an interesting view on environmental extremeist. The following link contains three videos that I found to be entertaining and informative. Each video is a little over nine minutes long, and, contain language that some may find offensive. (not too bad though)
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/view/178/
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I hope this guy was being very selective with whom he interviewed, otherwise, we could be in trouble.
These people make that miss America contestant look like a Rhodes scholar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Al is at it again. He has given us another "ten year window" warning in his recent speech in Washington. The "tipping point" is fast approaching, or, is it? Apparently, Noel Brown, formerly of the United Nations environment program was giving us the same warning.......Back in 1989!!...
From, the US senate comitte on environment & public works:
“The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis,” Gore stated. But the former Vice President, who has been warning of a 10-year “tipping point” for several years now, appears to be unaware that the United Nations already started the 10 year countdown in 1989!
According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.”
"While Gore repeats his standard stump speech promoting man-made climate fears, much of the international science community is now openly dissenting from human caused global warming fears."
Looks like the list of dissenters, deniers and, of course, the rest of the "fringe element is growing. Hopefully, to become a horde one day.
Full article here.....
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Mino
rity.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=37ae6e96-802a-23ad-4c8a-edf
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Thanks to http://icecap.us/ for the link.
