Return to Cloward-Piven Strategy: Beckman Interviews McCotter

Last week on Frank Beckman's show on WJR 760AM, Frank asked Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-11) if he thought that Obama was engaging in Cloward-Piven Strategy. This question surprised and intrigued me. I wrote about the Cloward-Piven Strategy before (see post Cloward-Piven Strategy), but for those of you who are sadly not frequent readers of my blog, I'll explain it to you now.

The strategy is called the Cloward-Piven Strategy after a pair of radical socialist professors from the 60's who came up with it. The idea is to purposefully create a series of crisis, each one of which will then be blamed on capitalism, de-regulation, low taxes, free markets, etc. After the crisis is at its peak and conservative ideals have been successfully blamed, you then advance a solution for the crisis- a solution to put in place a more socialist, state-run, liberal society. This solution will not make society better, but will instead create more crisis, which you then in turn blame on conservative ideas, and advance more solutions that are liberal. Eventually, the state will take over every aspect of our lives and run our society as a radical socialist utopia.

When I first suggested that the national Democrats were engaging in this policy back in 2008, I was drawing on my long experience watching Democrats in Michigan, particularly Detroit. In our state, Democrats put in place their liberal ideas, they backfire, and we get more liberal ideas, which backfire, leading to more liberal ideas, and eventually, you get Detroit (dominated by liberal Democrats for over 40 years) and to a lesser degree Michigan (dominated by liberal Democrats for almost 8 years). I figured that the series of crisis which followed the Democrats regaining control of Congress in 2006 were not due to bad ideas, incompetence, or just plain stupidity, but due to an organized and concentrated plot to create crisis so that that you could then advance liberal solutions.

For example, this current healthcare bill is not just an idiotic attempt to destroy our nation out of a foolish and misguided attempt to make things better, but a grand conspiracy to actually create a crisis in the healthcare system by putting in place laws and regulations that will lead to higher costs and lower coverage and benefits, and the response then will be an even bigger and stronger healthcare bill (which will then create an even worse situation, like we see in Canada, which will then lead to calls for more government, etc, until government controls everything).

In other words, the Democrats are purposefully overloading the system in an attempt to collapse it- adding more regulations and laws and taxes to our capitalist free-market system so that people will then think that the capitalist free-market system is failing, where in reality it is the very liberal policies that are creating the crisis.

In his interview, Frank Beckman suggested that the Democrats were engaging in this policy. Congressman McCotter disagreed.

McCotter thinks that it isn't an intelligent conspiracy of not letting any crisis go to waste to put in place more government, but rather just plain out liberal elitism and incompetence. He thinks that it is instead simply a selfish desire to create permanent dependent constituencies that will then vote Democrat, who will then distribute benefits to them. It isn't 1984, but rather more like the People's Republic of Haven (from the Honorverse). He makes a good argument, as most liberals that I have come across are really not evil manipulative people, but rather idiots and fools who lack an understanding of people, history, economics, and policy.

It does bear watching though if the pattern laid out in the Cloward-Piven Strategy holds true- if we get another crisis followed by more government control which leads to another crisis and more government control, etc. Keep your eyes on it- we have one more year of Democrats running the show in Congress, and they are sure to create more crisis in our society, either through an orchestrated strategy or incompetence, and keep your eyes out for the resulting 'the market failed' rhetoric and the 'more government is the solution' rhetoric that will follow.

Yucca Mountain

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act, amended in 1987, designated Yucca Mountain as the national repository for high level nuclear waste in the United States. After passage of that act, the United States spent $9 billion building the Yucca Mountain facility and putting in place every possible safeguard. Congress voted on this issue many times, and for over 20 years has voted to continue funding this project and developing it. This year, after considerable time and debate, Congress voted not to change or amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act and to continue to legislate that Yucca Mountain will be the national repository for nuclear waste, and appropriated money for this effort.

But this is not a nation built on laws from our legislative branch any more- our nation is turning into a dictatorship of tyranny under Obama. Obama declared that the policy will change, that the Yucca Mountain facility will no longer be considered as a site to store our waste, and that from now on, he is calling the shots in our nation, not Congress. He openly defied Congress and his energy secretary, Steven Chu, has mocked efforts by Congress to have him follow the laws of our nation with regards to this issue.

There is no real backup plan advanced either- Obama in all his brilliance is putting together a 'blue-ribbon' panel to produce a report on what to do with the nuclear waste that is piling up in our nuclear facilities, but nothing will come of this effort and 4 years from now, we'll just have more nuclear waste building up in temporary on-site storage's that were never designed or meant to house spent nuclear material for long periods safely. Obama's policies will hurt the security and environment of our nation, and he is putting these policies in place in clear violation to the laws and policies that Congress has legislated this very year.

The shutting down of the Yucca Mountain project will cost jobs (already thousands are being laid off in Nevada because of this policy decision), will cost energy companies money (they paid billions of their own money for this project and now will have to pay billions more for unsafe temporary storage of spent nuclear waste), and will lead to lower investment in clean and safe nuclear energy (because there is no place to store the waste).

Under George W Bush, thousands of studies were conducted on this issue and extensive research was produced, and after analyzing that data, Congress continued to vote to fund the Yucca Mountain facility and advance its mission of storing waste. But Obama radically altered this policy only two months into office (in March 2009), with no new data, no new studies, and no real reasons presented for the change. It is suspected that the move came as payback to soon-to-be ex-Senator Harry Reid, of Nevada, and as payback to extreme environmental groups that do not support any energy creation, even if it is clean and safe nuclear energy.

You Senators and Congressmen should be contacted about this issue and made aware that the Obama administration has ignored Congress and changed policies and abandoned $9 billion in spending for no good reasons. And if they don't act on this issue and others like it, they should be thrown out of office in 2010.

Equality, Relativism, and The Chicago Way

According to Victor Davis Hanson, there are three catalysts/ideas/background/origins that are driving Obama's agenda- Equality of Result, Multiculturalism, and The Chicago Way.

Equality of result is the belief that it isn't fair that some people are born smarter, faster, harder working, talented in different areas, etc, and thus earn more money, earn more respect, or earn more benefits in life. It isn't enough to simply put in place a system that encourages people to achieve to the best of their abilities, because some people's best will be better than other people's best, and they believe that isn't fair. Instead, a system must be put in place which assures equality of result, so that everyone gets everything equally. It's an old idea and an idea that has failed many times over, but that doesn't mean that people don't believe it today. "It isn't fair that not everyone gets healthcare," "it isn't fair that not everyone gets a living wage," etc- the idea is that it is morally wrong for there to exist different end results for different people. Thus the state must step in a correct these wrongs, through various communistic, socialistic, and progressivistic government actions. Obama believes in this philosophy, and since he knows almost nothing of economics, theology, history, or law, he doesn't even realize that he is naive and dangerous for believing in this idea.

Multiculturalism (moral equivalence, utopian pacifism, post-modernism, moral relativism, etc) is the idea that the origin of the unhappiness and unfufillment of today’s women/nonwhites/poor comes from the historical 'privileges' of the white Christian Western males, who have come to dominate society through oppression of said women/nonwhites/poor. Poverty and unhappiness are not due to accident, fate, bad luck, bad decisions, poor judgment, illegality or drug use, or simple tragedy, but rather exclusively to a system that is rigged to ensure oppression on the basis of race, class, and gender. Thus there is a need for government to level the playing field by redistributing the wealth and opportunities away from white male Christians. Obama learned these ideas sitting in the pew listening to Rev. Wright for 20 years, and you can hear echo's of these ideas when he talks about how his his wife is a victim (even though she makes 300K/year) and reflexively stands up to protect Professor Gates.

The last motivation that Victor Davis Hanson points to for Obama is his training in politics in Chicago, where he learned 'The Chicago Way.' This is the idea that a small insider clique can control the government, that the wheels of government can be greased with bribes and by pork projects, and that every word that comes out of Obama's mouth means nothing at all- they are 'words, just words' as Obama put it. This is how Obama rose to power, and this is how he views power.

I've long noticed these same things. Don't believe me? Then go back and read some of the following posts:
The Good and Bad of Obama
Obama: Promising Everything, Delivering Nothing
Barack Obama - Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
Corruption, Thy Name is Democrat
Liberalism is a Religion
The Religion of the Democrats

Elections Have Consequences

From Nolan Finley in the Detroit News today:

The wisest quote of 2009 came from President Barack Obama, who cut off belligerent Republicans with the reminder: "Elections have consequences." They surely do. And Americans are paying the consequences of the 2008 election.

The old saw, "power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely," applies perfectly to the process we're witnessing in Washington. This is how legislating works when there's no check on power. Some of the stuff we've seen over the past couple of months would qualify as criminal coercion, vote buying and bribery if it were the private sector writing the checks.

But as Obama pointed out, elections have consequences. So at least for the next year, this Democratic Congress will be able to do whatever it pleases.

Anyone who failed to vote Republican for every single race last election, this is on you as much is it is on the moron's who vote Democrat. And I hate to say "I told you so", but I did- my post from 10/11/08 was entitled An Obama Win Means No Opposition to Socialism. I wrote then these words, which are now coming back to haunt our nation:

A vote for Republicans is a vote for some opposition, for some other view, for some other segment of our society to be represented in government.

You should have listened to me.

Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders of 2009

From Telegraph, via Powerline:
Barack Obama's Top Ten Foreign Policy Blunders of the Year:

1. Surrendering to Russia over missile defence.
2. Appeasing the mullahs of Iran.
3. Ending the war on terror.
4. Announcing a surge while declaring an exit.
5. Apologizing to France for America's "arrogance."
6. Giving DVDs to the British Prime Minister.
7. Siding with Marxists in Honduras.
8. Bowing to emperors and kings.
9. Embracing genocidal killers in Sudan.
10. Throwing Churchill out of the White House.

Merry Christmas!

From my heart, I really do hope that all of you have a wonderful Christmas, filled with family, friends, and joy. Forget politics, forget economics, forget the environment, and just enjoy the real things that matter in this world.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Debt Ceiling Rises; Another Car in the Long Train of Abuses?

In a dramatic Christmas eve vote, the Senate voted massively increase the amount of debt that the United States government is going to pile up, raising the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, an amount that should only be enough to last through February, analysts say.

With the move, Democrats in Congress announced that they had no intention of ever balancing the budget and intend to pile up as much debt as rapidly as they can before they are thrown out of office. The move will surely doom generations of future Americans to poverty and crippling interest payments, but the Congressman of the broken 'me-first' hippy generation of the '60's and '70's signalled that it doesn't care at all for the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of our nation, who will not see the benefits of this spending (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, etc are all projected to be bankrupt within 20 years) but will see this debt.

Democrats applauded the move to raise the debt ceiling to $12,400,000,000,000, saying that in order to pay off all of the politically connected groups that vote Democrat, it is necessary to give ever increasingly amounts of money.

President Obama also applauded the move, saying that after campaigning last year as a moderate and as someone who will balance the budget that it is only fitting that people who believed his lies will pay for them now by destruction of the futures of their kids and grandkids.

Thank you Senators and Congressman for screwing over my kids with this vote. At some point, the risk-reward ratio for voting and changing the system vs bloody revolution and overthrow will switch, and that point is coming quickly.

Governments long established should not be overthrown because of passing and light mistakes- but these permanent and brutal blows that the Democrats are laying on the people are moving beyond light and transient. What the Democrats are doing is passing many many laws in a row which demonstrate their ultimate goal of tyranny and oppression, and if that is the case, it is my right and duty to destroy the United States government and put in place a new government for the benefit of our future, a government that will protect the life, liberty, and property of my children and grandchildren. That point is rapidly approaching.

Watching a Liberal Teacher Indoctrinate Youth

Last week as part of my mandated professional development I observed another teacher teaching their students. I use the term 'teaching' loosely- indoctrinating is a more accurate description of what that teacher does every day in her classroom.

The class began with students being given an article by a very liberal slanted New York Times columnist named Garry Wills. The topic of the article was about how George Bush has destroyed our economy and country, and that the best hope for America is to support the Democrats agenda without question or thought.

At no other time were any other articles assigned on this issue, and at no time was any other viewpoint presented by the teacher to the students. In the self-contained world of that classroom, there was one agenda presented and information and views presented from that one liberal direction alone.

After reading the article, the teacher then asked the class to talk about the arguments put forth by the author and discuss why they were true and what implications they have for the future of America. Yup- once the class of innocent high school students was provided with information from one point of view only the next step for that teacher was to have the students validate that information and internalize it so that it wasn't just something that they read, but something they would really believe. She had the students practice lines from the article, and pretend to debate 'conservatives' by offering up straw men arguments and then having the students act out how to be a super liberal. Once students became comfortable with the ideas, the thoughts, and the arguments, the teacher made them comfortable playing the part and believing in those things. With a sick feeling in my stomach, I watched the indoctrination occur, knowing that every day this is what this teacher did.

Afterwards, I asked the teacher what her goals were with this lesson. "I want to teach students to think critically about issues that they face in the world and talk about how they can change the world," she said. I did not point out to her that taking data and validating it and talking about why that data was true is not critical thinking; in fact, it was the opposite of critical thinking. Teaching students critical thinking is what we do in my classroom- we taken arguments from liberals and conservatives and attack them and tear them apart, looking for weaknesses, holes, or flaws in their theories and arguments. This teacher did the opposite- she made students read and then buy into liberal views.

I tried to point this out to her in a very cautious and roundabout manner, and her defenses went up. She told me "In order for these kids to become good students, it is important that they know that George Bush and the Republicans are wrong and that their views are not acceptable in our society. They hear otherwise on trashy talk shows and Fox News and from their parents, so it is my job to teach them that those people are wrong and that I am right and that they should always follow President Obama."

To this teacher, and to thousands of teachers around the nation, their job is not to teach math, science, reading, writing, or history. Their job, as they believe it to be, is to indoctrinate the youth of our nation into accepting and fighting for tyranny. Their jobs are to teach students to disobey their parents and throw down man so that he can be raised up again as a new man, more progressive and communist. This teacher had dozens of lesson plans created for this purpose (I went through her folders and piles on her desks when she wasn't looking) and every day she was dedicated in her mission.

As I went back to my classroom, I was conflicted. In my room, I present both views and work hard to not indoctrinate students one way or the other. And I am one of the more conservative teachers in all of my district. If I'm being moderate, how warped are students going to be when the moderates lean left and the leftists dedicate their lives to moving students left. What sort of students are our education system going to produce? It is a scary thought indeed.

UPDATE: Thanks for checking out this post! If you liked it, take a couple minutes to look around my blog and my archives and read some other stories of interest! Enjoy!

Yes, They Can

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley described in a recent post being knocked out by a Danish cop in Copenhagen as he attended the party that was the UN Climatefest of Global Warming Believers. When he came to, he was struck with the brilliance that only can come as you realize he horror that you are in an insane asylum and the inmates are running it:

...I came to some time later (not sure exactly how long), to find my head being cradled by my friends, some of whom were doing their best to keep the police thugs at bay while the volunteer ambulance-men attended to me....

...However, the Danish police were far too free with their hands when pushing us around, and that is not acceptable in a free society. But then, Europe is no longer a free society. It is, in effect, a tyranny ruled by the unelected Kommissars of the European Union. That is perhaps one reason why police forces throughout Europe, including that in the UK, have become far more brutal than was once acceptable in their treatment of the citizens they are sworn to serve.

It is exactly this species of tyranny that the UN would like to impose upon the entire planet, in the name of saving us from ourselves – or, as Ugo Chavez would put it, saving us from Western capitalist democracy.

A few weeks ago, at a major conference in New York, I spoke about this tendency towards tyranny with Dr. Vaclav Klaus, the distinguished economist and doughty fighter for freedom and democracy who is President of the Czech Republic.

While we still have one or two statesmen of his caliber, there is hope for Europe and the world. Unfortunately, he refused to come to Copenhagen, telling me that there was no point, now that the lunatics were firmly in control of the asylum.

However, I asked him whether the draft Copenhagen Treaty’s proposal for what amounted to a communistic world government reminded him of he Communism under which he and his country had suffered for so long.He thought for a moment – as statesmen always do before answering an unusual question – and said, “Maybe it is not brutal. But in all other respects, what it proposes is far too close to Communism for comfort.”

Today, as I lay in the snow with a cut knee, a bruised back, a banged head, a ruined suit, and a written-off coat, I wondered whether the brutality of the New World Order was moving closer than President Klaus – or any of us – had realized.

Modifying a bit from what Richard Fernandez at the Belmont Club says in his post on this, people have always believed that ‘they can’t do that here; they can’t foist this fraud on me; they can’t take over 15% of the US economy just like that; they can’t give my tax money to Hugo Chavez; they can’t borrow money from China in my name and give to China, etc.’ But one day the answer to those questions will be “Yes, they can”.

The Battle is Joined

Charles Krauthammer has picked up on the fact that we are once again living in interesting times:

Which brings us to the age of Obama, perhaps the most exhilarating time of all. There is nothing as bracing for democracy as the alternation of power, particularly when it yields as serious, determined and challenging an ideological agenda as Barack Obama's. This third wave of transformative liberalism -- FDR, then LBJ, now Obama -- is no time for triangulation. This is not incrementalism. We're not debating school uniforms. When Obama once declared Ronald Reagan historically consequential and Bill Clinton not, he meant it. Obama intends to be the Reagan of the new liberalism. The prospect of combative and clarifying 2010s, of sharply defined and radically opposed visions, is both politically and intellectually invigorating.

He's right- after Reagan's Presidency that marked the 1980's and the Republicans took back Congress in the 1990's, everything got better, and success and prosperity was boring and predictable and happy, and a sizable number of people couldn't handle that and rejected that. They rejected the 'jobless' 4% GDP growth of the Bush years, they rejected the victory over evil enemies in Iraq, they rejected the accountability of our education system, and they demanded a change. And they got it.

The election of Obama and rise of the liberals in Congress changed America- it marks the end of our nation as a free, prosperous nation built on liberty, freedom, rule of law, and protection of property rights. The new USA that Obama is building, the hope for many and the change from the past, is a nation built on nationalization and government takeover of privately owned and operated industries like the auto companies and healthcare and banking, of unelected bureaucrats in the EPA or czars like the pay czar determining what sorts of policy we will follow as a nation, of the rise in the power of the person and the violation of the rules of law by people, of increasing tyranny and dehumanization of those opposed to their tyrannical agenda, and the fall of morals and values in society.

The change that Obama represents is a change that I oppose with the whole strength of my being, and which I now fight on every front that I can possibly fight it on- I resist the rise in drug use, I resist the increase in abortions, I resist the rise in unemployment, I resist the increase in disrespect in our society, I resist the rise in sexting and underage sex, and I reject other changes the Obama's policies represent.

And because I resist and fight this change of Obama, it is going to be an interesting decade that we are looking forward to. The children of Reagan, embracing the conservative principles on which our nation was built and recognizing the benefits and beauty of the free market and religion and liberty, are going to be engaging an all out war against a generation of lost and sad individuals who embrace meaningless phrases as they stumble through their religion-less life believing in ghosts and global warming, fighting to establish communism and fascism in our society. Through this battle, America will emerge either stronger and more certain of itself and its place in the world, or weaker and less certain of its future as a nation in this world.

Expect the '10's to be a wild ride. Indeed, Our Long Conservative Nightmare is Over
and May You Live in Interesting Times.

Michigan Senators Fail to Game Corrupt Healthcare Bill

The Democrats made a lot of corrupt insider deals in order to get the 60 votes needed to shut off debate on the issue of 1/6 of our economy and jam through without a single vote from the other major party in our nation a bill that will in the end increase the cost of healthcare with dozens of new taxes and government agencies and lower the number of people covered by private healthcare by bankrupting insurance companies and jobs-providers. And Michigan, as usual with our our inept representation in the Senate, got nothing.

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson traded his vote on this issue for an estimated $45 million in federal Medicaid funds funneled to his state, enough to completely cover his state's costs of complying with an expansion of the program mandated by the bill. This money was taken from residents all around the country and is now being sent to Nebraska simply because that Senator held out the longest and was able to game the system for increased kick-backs and bribes. But he wasn't the only one.

The Senators in Vermont (1 Democrat and 1 Socialist) and Massachusetts (2 Democrats) also won additional Medicaid funds in exchange for promising to vote for the bill. Senators in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana also managed to find ways to make insider deals and game the corrupt system of passing legislation under Democratic leadership, scamming additional Medicare funds for their states, and also the good Senators from Hawaii (2 Democrats) exchanged their votes for additional taxpayer money funneled to their state.

Read the story here.

Michigan received no additional money and was not able to scavenge a piece of the dying carcass of the United States taxpayers because Michigan's two Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabmenow, are so extremely liberal, so partisan, and so far to the left that their determined ambitions to expand the size of government blinded them to the opportunity that existed with the passage of this 'healthcare bill' to funnel kick backs and bribes to the residents of our good state.

This is not to say that I endorse this process or applaud the actions of Senators who, in what I feel is a violation of the Constitution, took bribes in exchange for their votes. I'm just saying that Michigan Senators continue their record on turning the residents of Michigan into a donor state that transfers wealth from our citizens to the citizens of other states purely because of their representation is better at the political game than ours. If our Senators did this out of principle or because they rejected bribes, that would be one thing, but the real reason that our state didn't get any corrupt kick backs is pure incompetence.

As this year ends, we are witnessing some pretty shocking behavior by the Democrats. If you know anyone who is a voter, they need to vote Republican for every single race next election. Republicans aren't perfect, but at least when they were in charge they never engaged in this irresponsible one-sided orgy of spending funded by corrupt bribes and kickbacks.

If you want, you can call Senators Levin and Stabmenow, but it won't have much of an effect- they don't care a bit what you think about this issue, otherwise they'd be listening to the opinion polls that show over 60% of the people reject what they are trying to do. Your Michigan Senators don't care about you, don't care what you think, and would sooner kick you in the face than talk to you about healthcare debate. Senator Stabmenow doesn't owe you anything anyways- she has long been bought off by special interest groups from California- and has spent her time in office figuring out ways to funnel money to her campaign coffers, not to Michigan residents.

UPDATE I: Michelle Malkin has two complete lists of all of the bribes that were used to pass this healthcare bill- as you can see from list one and list two of the bribe lists, there were a lot of deals that were made using your taxpayer money.

It turns out, Michigan Senator Carl Levin was able to get a little kickback in return for trading his vote. The 'Healthcare Bill" includes a new $7 billion tax on nonprofit insurance companies, but for some unexplained reason, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan will be exempt from this tax. Levin received a lot of funding from BCBS last election, as did Democrats in general, and so in exchange for money for their re-election campaigns they fought hard to make sure that while every other company is taxed, they are exempt.

So it looks like Levin was able to win a concession for a major company in Michigan, although I still feel he sold his vote for very little. Stabmenow remains in my mind an utter failure in every possible way as a Senator.

Incidentally, this just highlights yet another reason why I oppose this bill so vigorously. Raising taxes on nonprofit insurance companies will not 'cut into the profits of those evil healthcare robber barons.' They are nonprofit. They will pay for that tax by raising prices on the customers- ie, they will raise the cost of healthcare coverage on those who are currently paying it. That is what this Demcare bill does- it will raise the cost of healthcare coverage on those who do pay for it in order to provide enhanced healthcare to those who do not pay for it.

UPDATE II: Not surprisingly, the deal that Nebraska cut in exchange for its vote is almost certain to be unconstitutional, and attorney generals all over the nation are looking into suing the federal government if this unconstitutional bill becomes law.

Global Warming Worshippers Like Ancient Babylonians

The Daily Kos article Aliens, Elves, and the Politics of Utopia begins well:

Every year in Babylonia, the gods came out to play. On feast days, people lined the streets as the statues of the gods, festooned in gold and jewels, were paraded through Ur and Kish and Eridu. In Babylon, priests ascended the seven tiers of the massive ziggurat and stood next to the golden bull horns at each corner. There they recounted the story of the Enûma Elish, explaining how Marduk came to rule over the other gods. In the time before time, Lord Marduk had slain the vast dragon-goddess of chaos, Tiamat. Seas were forced back from land. The order of day and night was fixed. The borders of the great city were set and the stones of the ziggurat stacked by the god's divine hand.

Everything that comes after in that article is pure garbage full of a lack of knowledge about history and people, but that first part caught my interest, because there is a group out there today that worships the Babylonian Gods and imagines a world that was once perfect and ordered, that once had the seas in their perfect places and the trees neatly aligned and marching forever, and where the people of the world were controlled and ruled by powerful elites. These worshippers of pagan religion just got done with a conference in Copenhagen.

Those people at the Copenhagen conference imagine a world ruled by gods- elite individuals who are no men but are transformative individuals outside of men- better than us, smarter than us, and stronger than us. They work in the United Nations, they are dictators controlling nations like Cuba or Venezuela or Cuba, and they are the unelected technocrats running the European Union.

The purpose of the gods, as imagined by those who believe in global warming and support the proposals that came out of the Copenhagen conference, is to restore order and keep the people under control. They fear chaos, they fear the unknown, and they have a burning need to control every aspect of society. The globe and the weather than rages around the globe is untamed and uncontrolled, and that scares them. Learning that the data that they use to control the globe may be wrong terrifies them. The free market and capitalism frighten these people because these are the chaos that man is supposed to control. Democracy and free will mean nothing to these people- the Babylonian Gods never gave man a choice in their affairs and never judged them for their choices, they just ruled them and class conflicts ensued.

When conservatives gather at their tea parties, they shout liberty and freedom and talk history, science, religion, and philosophy. They pick up after themselves, wave flags, and dress in the colors of red, white, and blue. There is no drinking or drugs, and people police themselves for language and human decency (I know, I've been to several- read My Report from the Birmingham Healthcare Rally or Report from Peters Townhall Sept 09). Their 'festivals' are subdued, intense, patriotic events that evoke images of our founding fathers arguing in the streets for life, liberty, and protection of property.

By contrast, when liberals gather at events such as the one in Copenhagen, they are pagans on festival day, lining the streets, festooned in outlandish outfits, having parade after parade, lavish party after lavish party, and engaging in pagan behavior that embraces drugs, alcohol, swearing, sex, and general human debauchery. They loose themselves in trances and are overcome by spirits that give them license to engage in behavior that would not be acceptable in any other format. They are the pagan worshippers of Babylonia, and if they had their way, the worshippers of other religions would be kept in slaves and mocked at for not engaging in their sad fantasy world.

Palin Joking

Via Sharp Right Turn comes this humor from Republican Governor Sarah Palin, who was speaking at the winter dinner of the Gridiron Club, an organization of Washington-based journalists. According to reports, Palin was able to poke fun at herself, the politicians in the room, Obama, Democrats, Joe Biden, and the McCain campaign:

• Palin joked that she was looking at a magazine cover of Obama and Chinese president Hu Jinato during an airplane flight and a nearby passenger stated, “Hu’s the Communist.” Palin said, “I thought he was asking a question."
• Sarah Palin poked fun at herself in a speech to journalists Saturday night, drawing laughter when she announced she “came down from my hotel room and I could see the Russian embassy.”
• The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate also joked that she had originally thought of titling her book “How To Look Like a Million Bucks, for Only $150,000″ before settling on “Going Rogue.”
• If the election had turned out differently, she said, “I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and vice president Biden could be on the road selling his book, ‘Going Rogaine.’” (Biden has sparse hair).
• As for her hosts, she said she was glad to be appearing before an elite audience of leading intellectuals, “or as I like to call it, a death panel.”
• McCain’s campaign staff also came in for a barb from the former Alaska governor when she said she is touring the country by bus as she sells her book. “The view is so much better from inside the bus than under it,” she said, referring to the poisonous relations between her and some of the McCain campaign staff.

Send in the Senate Clowns: Jokers and Fools Run Democratic Senate

Amazing. In the hundreds of years of our nation's history, rarely has the Senate degenerated to the point where it has after the Democrats took it over. The madness and funny games began early yesterday but only got worse as the day went on, as this party made a mockery of tradition, decorum, and the rules of the chamber.

The first bit of fun was when Senator Tom Coburn objected to a request to waive the reading of an amendment that was offered by Senator Bernie Sanders. The Senate rules state that an amendment must be read in full unless the entire Senate, by unanimous consent, agrees to waive that requirement, in which case the Senator offering up the amendment can just explain it and give an outline of what it does.

Earlier that day, Coburn had offered an amendment to the healthcare bill that would have required the bill to been available for at least 72 hours before it could be voted on, but the Democrats did not allow that amendment to receive a vote. In response, Coburn later objected to the request to waive the reading of Sanders bill, as per Senate rules.

Sanders was outraged by the action, as Democrats reacted furiously to the reading of their bill out loud in the Senate. After three hours of reading only about a quarter of the bill had been read, and then Sanders withdrew his amendment and the reading of it stopped, in violation of Senate rules which stipulate that any amendment proposed must be read in its entirety (although to be fair, it is not clear if the reading has to continue if the bill is withdrawn).

The Democrats were outraged that the rules were being asked to be followed and that they were being forced to read the bills that they are proposing (no one has yet to even see a copy of the latest health care bill that is being proposed), alleging that it was all a giant conspiracy and that the rules shouldn't have to be followed when they are ruling the nation. Coburn's move was most likely a delaying tactic, but it was an acceptable tactic that has been used frequently in the past in the Senate, and as such should the Democrats should not have reacted like they did.

Later that day, the madness continued, when in a bit of petty and bitter vindictiveness that joke-of-a-Senator Al Franken shut down Senator and 2000 Democratic VP-nominee Joseph Lieberman. Lieberman spoke for 10 minutes on the Senate floor about a health care amendment that he is co-sponsoring, and then after his 10 minutes expired, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) — the president chair of the Senate at the time — informed Lieberman his time was up.

When Lieberman politely requested “just an additional moment,” to finish, and Franken rudely barked out, “In my capacity as Senator from Minnesota, I object.” “Really??” a clearly surprised Lieberman said before he returned to his seat.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) later spoke about this issue, saying "I’ve never seen a member denied an extra minute or so, as the chair just did." Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI also spoke about this, saying "If the chair would yield for that…I think the same thing did occur earlier this afternoon, for reasons which have to do with trying to get this bill going..."

Levin and McCain and Lieberman have been Senators for years, and Franken has only been a Senator for a short time after stealing the election, but that does not excuse he rude behavior. Other Democrats are leaping now to defend Franken, proving that they don't respect the rules of that chamber and are willing to tolerate all sorts of thuggish and rude behavior in their quest to change America into a country where this sort of behavior is encouraged.

At their worst Republicans were never as vindictive, rude, irresponsible, and downright ugly as the Democrats are today running the United States Senate. Anyone who voted Democrat at any level should be ashamed at themselves and what they did to our nation.

Democrats More Likely to Believe in Ghosts, Global Warming, Psychic Powers, Stimulus Bills, Single Payer, and Astrology

A new study from the bipartisan Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that liberals and Democrats are far more likely to believe in ghosts, psychic powers and astrology than their conservative/Republican counterparts. About 50 percent more Democrats than Republicans say they have spoken to the dead.

Michael Graham, writing in the Boston Herald, isn't surprised by this find at all- to him, it is obvious that the essence of contemporary liberalism is the ability to believe in nonsense:

This week, President Obama and his fellow Democrats told “60 Minutes” that they are serious about dealing with America’s debt problem. That very same Sunday, Senate Democrats pushed through a $1.1 trillion spending bill, every penny of which has to be borrowed.

President “No More Earmarks” is going to sign a bill that includes subsidies for Amtrak, a government pay raise and more than 5,000 individual earmarks for pork-barrel pols to send home the bacon. The ObamaCrats need to raise the debt ceiling by $1.8 trillion just to get through the 2010 elections. That’s as much debt in one year as the entire eight years of George W. Bush.

Then there’s the latest version of health care reform put forward by Sen. Harry Reid. We all know what great financial shape Medicare is in, right? (“It’s not technically bankrupt, it just needs more money” - Barney Frank).

Now Democrats want you to believe that the way to fix health care is to push millions of Americans into becoming new Medicare patients, while simultaneously cutting the Medicare budget by $500 million. It’s going broke, you’re adding millions of patients while cutting billions of dollars - and you think it will fix the problem?

I don’t believe in man-made CO2, that tiny fraction of all greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that Al Gore believes has the power to destroy the Earth. I don’t believe in Cinderella courtrooms with charms to turn international terrorists into mere criminals with all the rights of U.S. citizens. And I don’t believe in invisible jobs “saved” by magic “stimulus” money in Neverland’s 99th Congressional District.

I'm not surprised by this Pew Study either, having realized long ago that liberals will believe in almost anything (except that we have God-given rights to life, liberty, and property). Check out some of my ideas and thoughts about what Democrats believe in this post- The Religion of the Democrats.

MI Congressman Peters One of the Most Partisan, Most Liberal, Most Bitter, Most Divisive, and Most Bought Off Congressman in the Whole Congress

In a vote analysis conducted by The Washington Post, liberal Gary Peters was found to have voted with his party and with liberal Nancy Pelosi over 96% of the time over the last 11 months.

That puts Peters in the same company with New York's ethically-challenged Charlie Rangel, California's "Big Three Killer" Henry Waxman, and Massachusetts' Barney Frank (who precipitated the mortgage-back securities meltdown).

How does he compare to all Democratic members in the House? Gary is MORE PARTISAN than the average Democratic members and MORE PARTISAN than average Republican member.

Who else is Peters more partisan than? Ironically enough, though he campaigned as an independent, moderate, pro-business fiscally conservative Democrat, Gary Peters has proven to be MORE PARTISAN than former Congressman Joe Knollenberg, whom Peters lambasted for supposedly voting in lock step with his party and with President George Bush.

According to The Washington Post, in his last term in Congress, Rep. Joe Knollenberg's voting record was SIGNIFICANTLY LESS PARTISAN than Gary Peters.' What's more, Knollenberg was less partisan than Peters over the course of his entire eight terms in Congress.

Peters' intensely liberal, partisan voting record isn't surprising given the fact that he was recruited, bought and paid for by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, liberal environmentalist groups, and Big Union dollars.

This year, Peters has accepted nearly HALF A MILLION DOLLARS in special interest campaign contributions from LOBBYISTS and POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES. That’s money from unions, from trial lawyers, from health care lobbyists and from Wall Street. Peters is NOT an independent voice; he’s bought and paid for by his liberal special interest cronies. His voting record shows it.

For the record, I didn't support Peters but wasn't that enthusiastic about Knollenberg, but am very excited about Rocky Raczkowski, who hopefully will be the Republican nominee that challenges Peters in the 9th District. He is a solid conservative and a recent war veteran, and would be a much better legislator for Michigan's 9th than Peters has proven to be.

Hat tip to Michgan's 9th.

Gods with No Free Will or Men with Free Will- The Real Choice in Copenhagen

Ben Stein begins his latest article from The American Spectator with a quote from Shakespeare:

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!…In apprehension how like a god…" so said the Bard, and of course, he was right. Man's capacities, for good and evil, are stupefying. In science, in language, in war, in healing, how miraculous are man's achievements.

And yet, so much eludes us and how tiny we are compared with our challenges. Disease strikes us down in our prime. We age and grow weak and then pass away, often cruelly. We make war upon our own kind and kill largely for sport. We cannot control the tides or the sun or man's theft from man.

But we try to rise above our puniness compared with our problems and pretend that we have solutions and explanations that will take away much of the mystery of life and history and make everything clear. We create models that we think make us appear to be gods.

Compare this writing to the usual drivel you get from the liberals in support of control over every aspect of our lives in the name of global warming. Here is George Moonbot, writing in the Guardian:

This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.

The summit's premise is that the age of heroism is over. We have entered the age of accommodation. No longer may we live without restraint. No longer may we swing our fists regardless of whose nose might be in the way. In everything we do we must now be mindful of the lives of others, cautious, constrained, meticulous. We may no longer live in the moment, as if there were no tomorrow.

On one hand, you have an educated man quoting Shakespeare and realizing that man is indeed a flawed person and not able to design a perfect system to figure out the world, but that man does a have a free will and that way to make the world a better place is to unleash that free will. On the other hand you have a man saying that the time is now, that we are the world, that everything is about us, that we are perfect people and can design systems to control every aspect of our lives, but that we should not have free will and liberty.

My question is which hand would you like to smack around moonbots with when they try to take away your liberty and freedom in the name of putting in place their perfect plans for running your life.

Al Gore: All Ice Will Melt in 5 Years

A new computer game created by Al Gore's team seemed to offer the suggestion to Al Gore that the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference, and for some reason, it made the news.

"It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this," former U.S. Vice President Gore and one-time Democratic-nominee for President told reporters and other conference participants at a joint briefing with Scandinavian officials and scientists, his first appearance at the two-week session.

Personally, I am not really 'astonished' that a computer model that probably relies on faulty data and is designed to produce a previously-arrived at result shows something that likely will not come true. I mean, kick me and ignore everything I wrote about global warming if in 5 years if the Arctic Ocean is ice-free during the summer, but if it isn't, we probably should kick Al Gore and start ignoring him and all of his crazy predictions.

The biggest piece of evidence cited by Al Gore was the melting of Greenland's ice sheet. According to Al Gore and those 'experts' at the conference, the reason why Greenland is no longer going to be covered by ice and will start to have more and more land available for farming and raising of animals is because of human activity and not because the Earth warms and cools on its own every now and then.

Al Gore will be especially astonished when Greenland once again is green and when glaciers melt away to reveal signs of human habitation and farming as short as 500 years ago (the Vikings).

Climate Activists Chant "We Want the Whole World to Be Like Africa!"

As negotiations at Copenhagen stalled, young climate activists closed their eyes and clapped their hands over their ears and chanted over and over again "We stand with Africa - Kyoto targets now!" They want the whole world to be more like the Africa that is poor, impoverished, and controlled by brutal dictatorships- and they Believe in Global Warming and worship at its alter and demand that you do too.

Liberals from around the world have converged on Copenhagen and are now negotiating with the sane and responsible people of the world over appropriate goals to set to help the environment. These people back the brutal dictatorships of the world and are being used as willing stooges to press for the rich nations to become poorer and impoverished by abandoning all the progress these nations have made in production and prosperity over the last several years.

Perhaps the most encouraging thing though about this conference is that the louder that these rich spoiled kids being used as stooges by evil dictatorship thugs yell and scream and cry and rant and rave, the less effect they are having. It seems as if surprisingly the adults are actually holding their own against those who indulge in juvenile theories regarding global warming and are not buying into their mentality. Even a fly-in by Obama did not help those idiots who are pushing for society suicide by adopting something like the Kyoto Protocol.

Read the full story here.

Spending Bill Includes Another 2% Raise for Government Workers

In the midst of a recession and the Democrats in the Senate on Sunday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill with dramatically increased budgets for vast areas of the federal government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans' programs. Having almost no money and having to borrow most of this funding did not slow the Democrats in Congress down at all as it poured money into politically connected ventures around the nation.

Included as part of this massive budget was an addition a 2 percent pay increase for all federal workers. This is after last week I pointed out that Federal Workers Salaries Are Exploding During the Recession- that even before this additional across the board 2% increase in salary for government workers they already had exploding salaries and job security.

The debt-fueled spending bill sends your tax money to provide for more than 5,000 local projects that were traded in exchange for votes and power, projects such as the construction of a county farmer's market in Kentucky, renovation of a historic theater in New York, and restoration of a mill in Rhode Island.

In addition, the bloated and utterly shameful spending bill that was passed by Democrats that you or your fellow citizens sent to Washington includes language that allows Washington DC to pay women to get abortions, encourages Washington DC to expand its connections with drug dealers by allowing marijuana, and lets detainees held at Guantanamo Bay be transferred to the United States.

There is only one more spending bill left to pass, a $626 billion defense bill, that the Democrats will use as the base bill for all sorts of unpopular and controversial items, reasoning that if Republicans vote against the monstrosity that the Democrats create, they can disingenuously claim Republicans are against national defense, and if Republicans (or even a single Republican) votes in favor of what is sure to be a disgusting bill, they can claim it was bipartisan.

Republicans at their worst at the height of their worst in Washington don't even begin to come close to how bad the Democrats are running our government right now, and that is the truth.

Holiday Mail for Heroes

This time of year for many is a time of holiday parties with friends and families, but let us not forget all of our service members who are overseas or who in the past were overseas fighting for our freedom and liberty during this time.

The “Holiday Mail for Heroes” campaign helps Americans to send holiday cards with their messages of thanks and cheer to service members, veterans and their families. It is hoped that through this campaign, American service men and women in the U.S. and around the world will receive a much needed touch of home during this holiday season.

This year, information about the Holiday Mail for Heroes campaign can be found at http://www.redcross.org/holidaymail. The site includes information about what types of cards can be sent, how cards should be addressed, and also provides further information regarding how you can get involved.

Please take a couple minutes out of your busy holiday season to remember those who fought for you by sending them something as simple but as powerful as a holiday card. A thank you and a 'great job' go far in keeping up the spirits of our fighting men and women.

If you have any further questions, please email Frank McDade

Federal Workers Salaries Are Exploding During the Recession

According to a recent USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data, the number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession. Not gone up a bit, not grew at a reasonable and steady rate, but exploded. Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that doesn't even include overtime pay and bonuses, which for some reason count as pay for executives but don't count as pay for civil servants.

Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector. The highest-paid federal employees are doing best of all on salary increases. Defense Department civilian employees earning $150,000 or more increased from 1,868 in December 2007 to 10,100 in June 2009, the most recent figure available. When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.

The USA TODAY analysis doesn't lay any blame to any particular party for this explosion in government jobs and pay, but the start of this boom time for government employees was 2007... right after Democrats took control of Congress, and since Obama's election to President, the hiring and raising of pay for government workers has risen sharply.

The USA TODAY analysis also doesn't advance that there is any sort of relationship between the recession and the boom in government jobs and pay, but I will voice that- the recession in our nation is partly attributable to the growth in government pay and jobs. Talented employees are being lured into inefficient and non-productive jobs in the government, and instead of producing products of value for society are instead regulating and taxing productive produces of value for society at ever increasingly rates. In Michigan, we watched the size of government grow and grow and grow, and the recession get worse and worse and worse, and no one ever put the two together- now we see it nationally- if you grow the size of government, you shrink the size of the productive workforce. And to pay for all these government workers, the government borrows money, which soaks up available funds for investment in the private marketplace, further dragging down the nation.

Today we read about how the Democrats in the government are attacking the pay of executives and businessman across the nation, as unelected and unconfirmed bureaucrats arbitrarily decide who gets 'paid to much' according to their nebulous unaccountable judgement calls. And yet Democrats are dramatically increasing the pay of government employees, raising caps on top administrators pays and pushing for more and more pay for government employees. This type of behavior- hypocritical, unethical, and illegal- marks tyrannies and corrupt institutions around the world, and is exactly what the Democrats are advocating.

Democrats believe you should make nothing but their politically connected friends should make more and more pay, and the numbers prove it- in the midst of a recession made worse by Democrat policies, the only people who have dramatically increasing pay and work are government workers.

Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, said it best- "There's no way to justify this to the American people. It's ridiculous."

Michigan Tax Money Funneled to SEIU

If liberty and freedom is going to win against the forces of tyranny and dictatorship, it will not be because one party or group wins, but rather because thousands of American patriots win by doing all they can do to make liberty and freedom a reality again. With that being said, I'd like to point you all to a new blog making its appearance in the blogosphere called Make Lansing Listen run by a group called Common Sense in Government.

One of the early posts on this blog sets the bar pretty high as it exposes a $4 million taxpayer giveaway to SEIU:

Senator Jason Allen has introduced SB 731, which would take a shady, sneaky and probably illegal deal giving the sister organization of ACORN, SEIU, a $4 million dollar taxpayer giveaway and make it legal.

SB 731 deals with “The Quality Care Council”, which is set up through an “inter-local agreement” and charged with helping to protect Michigan Seniors from abuse. There is no legal authority to establish such a council. Allen’s SB 731 would give the Governor the power to legally hand over the $4 million to SEIU.

“Despite all the rationalizations about wanting to help Seniors, what the bill is really about is handing over $4 million of taxpayer money to the SEIU,” says Wendy Day, President of Common Sense in Government.

If you haven't picked up on it yet, SEIU represents a growing threat to the American republic. A labor union that lobbies for more government spending so that it can recruit more members to lobby for more government spending, etc, is a dangerous entity, especially when it is increasingly funded and supported by more and more government spending. Thank you to Make Lansing Listen for pointing out this piece of legislation, and I suggest you all contact your Michigan legislators to make your views on it heard.

Obama Reading GQ Story on Obama Being Great

Earlier this year, I wrote that our President, Barack Obama, might be suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Barack Obama - Narcissistic Personality Disorder?). The Diagnostic Criteria for 301.81 Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, the need for admiration, and lack of empathy, and is indicated by five (or more) clear markers (read the whole post for all this info). This is not meant to judge- this is a clinical diagnosis, rendered by Dr. Sam Vakin, Ph.D. and the main researcher on this disorder (again, read the whole original post for all the sources).



The only reason I bring this up again is that this is the first thing I thought about when I saw this recent picture of Obama walking to his car, holding a magazine in his hand- a GQ magazine with his face on the cover and the main article about how great he is. I really hope this was a joke or a gag, because if he really is reading all the magazines about how great he is, that only will feed his disorder and make it worse. Via Just A Conservative Girl:

Big Business + Big Government Makes America the Big Loser

When discussing interest groups in my government classes, I always try to bring up the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement as an example of how interest groups and government can work together to create laws that benefit both of them. The tobacco settlement is a good example of a way that the government can try to regulate things in our society that are viewed as harmful, and many people think government should try to use this sort of an agreement as a basis for similar agreements between the government and any industry that supposedly does something harmful.

That's not my view of this agreement. I view the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement as the tobacco industry trading liability for protection, and paying money to make the government force competitors out of business. I view the TMSA as government-endorsed thuggery, the collusion between the four biggest tobacco companies and the government, setting up a marketplace much the way the mob does where the government only allows certain people to compete, and only then at a price, and in return for that price they are not responsible for the harm their products produce and do not have to worry about competition.

Go back a couple years ago and read this article from Reason Magazine called Puff, the Magic Settlement.

This just isn't old history. Today Jonah Goldberg in an article called 'Big Business' Democrats reminded me of this agreement. The TMSA is viewed as a model of success by many to emulate. They think that if you sit Big Business and Big Government down at the table together, magically Big Business will pay millions of dollars in damages and no longer cause problems. They don't realize that there was a deal made, and the deal was to screw over the American public so that both Business and Government would win.

Cap-and-trade is a similar agreement to the one the tobacco industry struck. The winners are big energy businesses, the losers are the people. In this agreement GE and other major energy companies stand to make billions from carbon pricing, thanks largely to investments in technologies that cannot survive in a free market without massive subsidies from Uncle Sam. GE chief Jeffrey Immelt cheerleads big government as "an industry policy champion, a financier and a key partner."

Healthcare is a similar agreement to the one the tobacco industry struck. The winners are big healthcare businesses, the losers are the people. The healthcare industry has mostly been trying to cut insider deals with the government, not fighting to defend the status quo, and if the healthcare bill goes forward, Big Pharma and Big Hospital will have figured out a way to transfer billions of dollars to them and keep them safe from competition, while politicians will cheer what they call 'reforms.'

The backbone of America is freedom to enter the marketplace and protection of property from unjust takings. But when Big Business and Big Government work together, the Big Loser is America.

Prostitutes Offer Free Sex to Climate Summit Delegates

From Spiegel Online- Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex:

Copenhagen's city council sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging guests and delegates to the UN Climate Summit to 'Be sustainable - don't buy sex'.

In response, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and show their Summit identity card, as a way to reward those who disobey the city council.

Let me state for the record that I do not in any way approve of prostitutes or frequent prostitutes. That being said, I don't understand the position of the Copenhagen city council- why is buying sex not sustainable? Sex is a renewable resource. When two people engage in it, it does not create a large carbon footprint. By paying for sex, money is transferred to poor and young people in society, which is usually what is meant by being 'sustainable.' It is a natural way to heat up the night without burning any sort of fuels. In every way that I can think of, it seems sustainable. Am I missing something?

What I also want to know is if the postcards that were mailed to the guests were printed on recycled paper and whether or not they were carried by environmentally friendly birds, or whether they were heavy glossy affairs sent around the world by gas-guzzling jets.

Also, why is this a problem now? Is frequent visits to prostitutes not a problem when conservative, Republican, libertarian, or right-wing groups visit Copenhagen? Or is there a considerable and noticeable uptick in business only when liberal, leftist, global warming believers arrive? It's odd- why would a postcard like that go out unless it this particular group was perceived as being a particular problem.

I guess these questions will have to remain unanswered, much like the larger question about whether or not the Earth is warming or not.

Soros Creates Project to Install Secretaries of State Across the Nation in Attempt to Control Vote Counting Forever

A PATRIOTIC ROTTWEILER sinks his teeth into a real juicy story that makes me shiver in my bones- George Soros has created a "527" group called the Secretary of State Project, which can accept unlimited undisclosed money, and will use that money to run attack ads and hit pieces on Republican and moderate Democrats in an attempt to install left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state across the nation.

Once Soros has put in place left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state all across the nation, they will be the ones counting the votes, deciding who is a registered voter and who isn't, and supervising the election process.

Joseph Stalin once remarked, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." George Soros is setting it up so that across the nation, left-wing Democrats will decide everything for our nation.

Via The American Spectator:

At the top of the SoS Project's slate of candidates for state-level secretary of state positions in 2010 is Minnesota's radically left-wing Mark Ritchie, a former community organizer whose cavalier attitude toward electoral fraud and whose shamelessly partisan conduct during the recount process cleared the way for Al Franken to steal last year's U.S. Senate election from then-Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). Ritchie was first elected Minnesota secretary of state in 2006. Franken and Obama, by the way, were endorsed last year by ACORN votes, ACORN's federal political action committee.

The 2010 slate also includes California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, whom the group describes as "one of the most progressive Secretaries of State in the nation." Bowen was endorsed in her previous run by California ACORN PAC.

SoS Project is also endorsing Jocelyn Benson, candidate for secretary of state in Michigan, whom it lauds as an "[e]lection law scholar and community organizer." Benson is a candidate ACORN would love. The bio SoS Project provides credits Benson with running a 2004 "voter protection campaign in 21 states, deploying 17,000 trained election law lawyers." Last year in Michigan, she helped to lead the fight to stop the Republican secretary of state "from disenfranchising voters who were victims of home foreclosures." Assuming the desperately mismanaged Michigan continues to exist through Election Day next year, count on the desperately evil ACORN endorsing Benson.

According to the SoS Project website, The Secretary of State Project helped elect 9 out of 11 candidates for chief elections officer in key states in 2006 and 2008, and raised nearly 1 million dollars for SoS candidates in both election cycles. Now it is gearing up for 2010 to support left-wing Democrats for Secretaries of State around the nation.

This is a group to fear and has a steady track record of success. I'm worried that Soros is out-smarting the Republican Party, and while Tea Partiers and Conservatives argue about being true to their beliefs, left-wing Democrats across the nation will become Secretaries of State, and they'll be the ones counting the votes next election.

Senator Stabenow Out of Touch With Majority of Americans on Global Warming Issue

Every single time I have received a letter from Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) about global warming the opening line from her letter has been "the science on this issue is settled and there is now no debate over global warming." A good way to test this hypothesis of the good Senator would be to call thousands of people and conduct a survey and ask them whether they think the science has been settled and whether they think there is still debate on the issue.

If the Senator is correct and 'the science is settled' and 'there is no debate', then the people would agree, since they are educated about science and they are the source of debate. Oh, there would still be some nuts, but you could expect 60-70% to say that the debate is over and the science is settled.

Scott Rasmussen has done such a survey, and so we can test the claims of Stabenow.

Senator Debbie Stabenow is wrong, and every letter she has sent to me has been filled with lies. According to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, just 25% of adults think that the science is settled and that there is no more debate on the issue. Twenty-three percent (23%) are not sure. The majority of Americans (52%) believe that there continues to be significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming, that the science is not settled, and that there is still debate on this issue.

Stabenow is clearly out of step with the majority of Americans and clearly out of step with the constituents of her own state, and time and time again she has sent me a letter making false claims demonstrating how far she is out of step. Statistically and verifiable her views only represent 25% of Americans, and yet for some reason she represents our entire state on these very issues.

Go ahead and email Senator Stabenow at http://stabenow.senate.gov/email.htm and let her know that the majority of Americans think that there is still debate on the issue of global warming and that the majority of good and decent and intelligent Americans still feel that there is debate on this issue, and that she should listen to the majority of Americans instead of small radical environmental groups before voting on the issue of global warming. I think she is a true believer in the Green God though, so you'll probably get a reply that is all mush and mumbo-jumbo, but the facts of the issue may at least inject something to her views. Cite those facts in your email to her- the Rasmussen Reports story can be found here.

Senator Stabenow and the rest of the Democrats in Congress are wrong- the majority (52%) of Americans think that the science on global warming is not settled and that there is still debate on this issue, and the majority of our nation should be listened to before Congress enacts any sort of cap-and-tax schemes or other global warming legislation.

Hat-tip to powerline.

US Has Two Party System- Deal With It and Vote Republican

The United States of America has a two party system and it always will. The two major parties earn 90-95% of the vote in our nation in the thousands of races they run in every election up and down the ballot year in and year out. Every election people wish that another different party would win, but they very rarely do. And that is the way it is.

This is not to say that so-called 'third parties' don't occasionally win a race or have a good showing. You can probably name the dozen or so times in the last several decades they had a good showing... out of thousands and thousands of races they have had a bad showing. The biggest role that 'third parties' play in our system is throwing the election to the 'other side'- all of those people who voted Libertarian helped the opposite of a libertarian win, all of those who thought HW Bush wasn't conservative enough and voted Perot helped put Clinton in office, and all those GOPs who supported TR only helped put progressive Wilson in office. And all of you who read my blog that support and vote third party, all you are doing is helping put communists, socialist, and fascists in office. And that is the way it is.

The reason we have a two party system in our nation is for several good reasons. One is tradition and history- we've always had a two party system, whether it was Revolutionary/Loyalist, Federalist/Anti-Federalist, Federalist/Democratic-Republican, Democrat/Whig, or Democrat/Republican (since 1860)- and tradition and history are important to many people. Another reason we have a two-party system is the laws and regulations that we have put in place to control elections favor two parties- single-member districts, winner-take-all elections, a popularly elected president, large geographically based districts, ballot access laws- all of which favor the two party system. Another reason is because Americans are generally moderate, and the two major parties are coalition parties that make compromises to win, which moves them both closer to the middle, which means that other parties only have room to win supporters on the margins of the political spectrum, where there are fewer people.

And this is why you personally (if you vote third party) are messing up. The GOP is a coalition party that in order to win brings in lots of groups and combines them in an imperfect manner. The Democrat party does this too, and all of the communists and fascists got smart and joined that party and now run our nation, while all of the conservatives and libertarians sit on their high horses and judge and that's why the communists and fascists run our nation. You (if you vote third party) are contributing personally to the downfall of the United States of America. You need to vote Republican- you need to be part of the coalition and as our party gets bigger and bigger, and welcomes in more groups, we'll welcome in conservatives, moderates, libertarians, and everyone who goes to a tea-party. That will make the GOP a strong party again, and will make America a strong party. And if you don't like a candidate in the GOP, actually vote in a primary for once (average 20% voter turnout) and do something about it.

We have a two party system in America, and you need to deal with it and start voting Republican.

The Man Who Should Be President Gives Advice

Last year, our nation had a choice for President. On one hand we had a man who sprouted very nice sounding platitudes but lacked experience and had a very extreme voting record. On the other hand we had a man who spoke truthfully about the situation and had a lot of experience and had solid and well thought out policy positions. Sadly, those two were not on the same ballot- the experienced solid conservative lost in the primaries to John McCain. If only we could have had a chance to elect Mitt Romney last election, things might have turned out differently.

That's not to say that there would have been no recession, healthcare would not have been a concern, and Iran would have continued to enrich uranium. If Mitt Romney would have become President instead of Barack Obama, those things would still have happened. But the key question is how would Romney have handled those situations differently than Obama and how those differences might affect our nation.

Some people think there is no difference between the two major parties or think that Romney wasn't really that different than someone like Obama. They are wrong. In many important and key situations Romney would have advocated considerably different policies than Obama, policies that may have led to a shorter and less severe recession, that would have lowered the cost of healthcare, and that would have led to Iran thinking twice about seeking the bomb.

This is not idle thoughts- Mitt Romney wrote an editorial this week in USA Today where he laid out some things he would have done as President differently than Barack Obama. This is why he was and remains my choice for President:

• Repair the stimulus. Freeze the funds that haven't yet been spent and redirect them to immediate, private sector job-creation priorities.
• Create tax incentives that promote business expansion and hiring. For example, install a robust investment tax credit, permit businesses to expense capital purchases made in 2010, and reduce payroll taxes. These will reignite construction, technology and a wide array of capital goods industries, and lead to expanded employment.
• Prove to the global investors that finance America's debt that we are serious about reining in spending and becoming fiscally prudent by adopting limits on non-military discretionary spending and reforming our unsustainable, unfunded entitlements. These are key to strengthening the dollar, reducing the threat of rampant inflation and holding down interest rates.
• Close down any talk of carbon cap-and-trade. It will burden consumers and employers with billions in new costs. Instead, greatly expand our commitment to natural gas and nuclear, boosting jobs now and reducing the export of energy jobs and dollars later.
• Tell the unions that job-stifling "card check" legislation is off the table. Laying new burdens on small business will kill entrepreneurship and job creation.
• Don't allow a massive tax increase to go into effect in 2011 with the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. The specter of more tax-fueled government spending and the reduction of capital available for small business will hinder investment and business expansion.
• New spending should be strictly limited to items that are critically needed and that we would have acquired in the future, such as new military equipment to support our troops abroad and essential infrastructure at home.
• Install dynamic regulations for the financial sector — rules that are up to date, efficient and not excessively burdensome. But do not so tie up the financial sector with red tape that we lose a vital component of our economic system.
• Open the doors to trade. Give important friends like Colombia favored trade status rather than bow to protectionist demands. Now is the time for aggressive pursuit of opportunities for new markets for American goods, not insular retrenchment.
• Stop frightening the private sector by continuing to hold GM stock, by imposing tighter and tighter controls on compensation, and by pursuing a public insurance plan to compete with private insurers. Government encroachment on free enterprise is depressing investment and job creation.

These are great points and both Republicans and Democrats should get behind Romney and support his bid for President in 2012.

Voting Present on Iran

As the children play in the White House, the adults in Iran are up to no good. Victor Davis Hanson keeps our attention on this important subject in his article Voting Present on Iran:

Iran just announced a radical expansion of its uranium-enrichment facilities. The news followed the recent disclosure of the country's previously secret nuclear facility near the city of Qom -- and came just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency's censure of Iran for its failure to halt enrichment.

In other words, instead of complying with international requests to stand down, Iran has decided to step up efforts to enrich uranium, which, despite the government's denial, is all but certainly intended for a bomb.

Iran's theocratic leaders promote its pathological hatred of Israel. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust. He periodically threatens the Jewish state with abject destruction, calling Israel "a dead rat" and "a stinking corpse." At best, his nuclear missiles would be a permanent sword of Damocles over Israel's head. At worst, in apocalyptic fashion, he could claim for Persian Shiites the primacy of radical Islam by destroying, once and for all, the "Zionist entity."

Iran also gives billions in aid to murderous organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas. Their clout would grow exponentially if they could scare Western allies with the threat of nuclear terrorism.

Apparently Iran has watched this new kindly American approach -- and come to a few dark conclusions: namely that a handful of nuclear bombs will give Iran political leverage, and that, in this new climate, it is well worth the (decreasing) risk in getting them. Rightly or wrongly, it seems to assume that the new repentant American administration is more interested in reaching out to prior adversaries than pressuring them to respect the current global order.

President Obama's serial deadlines and hope and change rhetoric have had no effect on the Iranians. Obama can either accept that the theocracy will go nuclear and live with it, or he must take graduated steps to stop them.

Lost amid all the debate about Obama's domestic policies like socialized medicine, nationalizing companies, massive debt-fueled pork give-aways, and the capping and taxing of America's energy consumption is that Iran is getting closer and closer to obtaining a nuclear bomb. Iran getting the nuclear bomb would be very bad for the world. They will use it to blackmail our allies and expand their control over the Middle East, they might use it to murder millions of Jews, or they could sell it to terrorist groups who would unleash it on an American city. This is a big deal.

As big a deal as it is, what has Obama's response been? Offering to talk to Iranian officials? Backing the Iranian government as it killed and terrorized pro-democracy groups that tried to rise up in freedom and liberty? Issuing declarations that are ignored? Those aren't very strong steps and are not having a positive effect on the situation. Different steps need to be taken and different messages issued. Perhaps Obama can do these things, but I'm pretty sure that we are going to need a different Congress and different President or else Iran will mushroom cloud an American city.

Obama Didn't Say 'Victory' or 'Win' In His Speech

In his speech last night on the Afghanistan war, President Obama said 4,582 words. He correctly identified our enemy in the War on Terror in his speech, saying "al Qaeda" 22 times and "Taliban" 12 times. But he didn't correctly identify our goal in the War on Terror- in his first speech as commander-in-chief of our military, he didn't say the word 'victory' a single time.

If you ask me what my strategy will be to win the next lasertag match I'm in, I'll tell you what shoes I'll wear, who I'm playing, and that I'm going to win. I'll tell you all about how I am going to achieve victory in the video game I am playing. When asked about how I will overcome a challenge, I'll point out the things that I will do to overcome it, and will state that my ultimate goal is to overcome it.

Obama did none of these things- nothing about winning the War on Terror, nothing about achieving victory over terrorist killers, and nothing about overcoming the Taliban and putting them underground where they belong. Not a single word of victory in a speech that lasted almost an hour.

Oh, I think I heard a 'successful conclusion' and 'responsible transition' in there somewhere, but if I play you in a game of chess and come to a successful conclusion, that might mean that I lost and you won. If I play you in a game of hockey and we end with a responsible transition to shaking end, I may have gotten thumped and embarrassed. Those aren't the goals of winners. Those aren't the goals of champions. And those aren't the goals of the United States of America.

Our military is not going to Afghanistan to play the game and see it come to a conclusion. This is war, and in war you are either a winner or a loser, and the losers usually end up dead. The last war we successful concluded and came to a responsible transition in was Vietnam, which saw the United States lose control of Southeast Asia and millions of our allies that were left behind were killed. It took our nation almost a generation to recover from the last 'successful' conclusion, and I'd rather instead that we achieve victory and win.

Why is it so hard to say "And we'll win." Why can't Obama say "And we'll be victorious." Does Obama want America to win? Does Obama want America to be victorious? I wonder sometimes.

UPDATE: Don't misunderstand me- I actually thought Obama gave his best speech since the campaign trail. It was a well-articulated argument and was considerably bipartisan. I just don't think fighting a war in a bipartisan political manner that sounds good but is lacking on details and specifics is the way to go. I mean, you can BS your way through domestic policy and jam stimulus bills and healthcare bills through like this and it will only destroy our economy, but if you play these sorts of games with terrorists, it could mean a mushroom cloud.

Will Obama Bow to Lobo?

In Sunday’s presidential election, the voters of Honduras chose Partido Nacional candidate Pepe Lobo, who won 58%, compared to 33% for Partido Liberal candidate Elvin Santos. The biggest loser in the election was the candidate that US President Barack Obama supported, ousted former president Manuel Zelaya, who had violated Articles 373 and 374 of the Honduran Constitution and forfeited his office by attempting to arrange a second term for himself. He called for a boycott of the election, and in response the people of Honduras turned out in considerably larger number than normal- 61% (up from 53% in 2005).

Although Obama's administration said earlier that it would not recognize the winner of this election, preferring to side instead with dictators such as Daniel Ortega and Castro, he is going to have to back off from the position as it becomes more and more apparent that the government and people of Honduras acted in a legal, moral, constitutional, and correct manner, and that opposing them simply because they didn't back a dictatorial thug will not look good in the media. So Obama will likely recognize Pepe Lobo as the new President of Honduras.

The larger question is that when Obama does meet Lobo, will he bow to him, or does Obama only bow to Saudi royalty and Japanese emperors? Will he warmly hug Lobo, or does he only reserve warm hugs for Central and South American dictators? Will he sit down without pre-conditions with Lobo, or does he only do that to Iranian thugs and Chinese communists? How will Obama treat Lobo?

I would guess that since in Obama's bizzaro world right is wrong and up is down and good is bad, he will treat Mr. Lobo poorly, refuse to meet with him, and then when he does be very cold about it. It's just a guess, but it does fit the profile for Obama.