"Just the facts M'am, Just the facts." -- Sgt. Joe Friday
Democrats Use Fiscal Crisis As Weapon To Bash GOP
Investors Business Daily Posted 12/27/2011 07:09 PM ET
Debt: Wasn’t it just last summer Republicans and Democrats nearly came to blows over raising the debt ceiling? Well, guess what — President Obama is back, asking for another $1.2 trillion. Are we being gamed here? [Read more…]
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we’re not done yet. I’ve got five more years of stuff to do. But
not only saving this country from a great depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But
putting in place a system in which we’re gonna start lowering health care costs and you’re
never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Making
sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded
bailouts, and the system is more stable and secure. Making sure that we’ve got millions of
kids out here who are able to go to college because we’ve expanded student loans and
made college more affordable. Ending Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Decimating al Qaeda, including
Bin Laden being taken off the field. Restoring America’s respect around the world.
The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you
know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years
against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just
in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to
the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it.
From the ACLU 50-State Survey for January of 2012:
Let’s see: infant death and dismemberment, sexual obsession, terrorism, illegal aliens, Sharia, spurious government science. That’s an impressive series of harmful policies to rack up by one organization in one fund-raising mailer. How did I get on this nutjob mailing list? Yeah I’m going to send them a check, where’s my pen?
Thank you American law schools.
December 20, 2011
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS
INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Republicans and Democrats, liberals as well as conservatives, have bought into anti-Chinese trade demagoguery. [Read more…]
Problems with the 07-2011 Draft Oil & Gas Regs proposed for Elbert County Zoning
Page 5: “…unless approval has been granted pursuant to these regulations from the Director of Community & Development Services (C&DS) or the Board of County Commissioners (Board).”
Are we setting up an unelected czar of oil and gas zoning enforcement, unaccountable to the voters?
Page 6: “the County Attorney or where the Board deems it appropriate, the District Attorney……may [act]”
Here again, should enforcement of zoning be allowed without the approval of an elected official?
Page 21: “Safety practices in accordance with state and federal law, including the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970….”
Elbert County should not be in the business of enforcing federal OSHA law.
Page 23: “The oil and gas facility shall not cause significant degradation of wildlife, including any federal, state or Colorado Natural Heritage Program-identified species of concern, or to their habitat. At a minimum, the operation shall comply with the CDOW’s recommended…..”
The CDOW, Colorado and the federal government can enforce their own wildlife regulations. Elbert County does not need to duplicate those efforts.
Page 23: “When planning facilities, the Applicant shall consult and reference the current wildlife concurrence data, including the CDOW’s Natural Diversity Information Source database…”
Bio-diversity is buzzword science with no greater purpose than stopping development. It has no place in industry zoning regulations.
Page 25: “install wildlife crossovers and escape ramps where the trench crosses well-defined game trails”
Presumably this would be for the really smart or well trained wild game, who know how to use such devices.
Page 26: “The applicant shall identify the proposed source of fresh or potable water required for the oil and gas facility and dust control, along with a letter from the Colorado Division of Water Resources or a copy of the Water Court decree indicating that the water supply source is acceptable for the use at the oil and gas facility.”
Here again, water regulation falls outside of Elbert County’s jurisdiction. It’s a matter for the State Engineer.
Page 37: “the right of the county to determine land uses”
Isn’t it the people’s right to determine land use within allowed limits? I thought government in America was based on limitations, not rights.
Page 39: “No oil and gas facilities shall cause a reduction in solar radiation…”
Isn’t it a reach to blame the existence or absence of solar radiation on an oil well?
Page 39: “Greenhouse Gas Reduction”
Zoning regulations should not incorporate the spurious science of global warming language.
Page 40: “The county finds that the standard industry practice of injecting highly toxic substances under high pressure into the earth for the purpose of fracturing geologic formations poses an unacceptable risk of polluting these invaluable ground water resources.”
This statement ascribes a harmful intent to the oil and gas industry as a “standard practice.” The statement is prejudicial, unfounded, and not conducive to sound science or good industry relations.
If the Community and Development Services department needs a toxic blend to regulate, look to the toxic combination of subjects below under which this post is filed.
“DECEMBER 14, 2011
Congress mandated purchase of 250 million gallons in 2011. Actual production: 6.6 million.
‘We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive within six years.”
—George W. Bush, 2006 State of the Union address [Read more…]
Obama’s change for America is to lower expectations by providing government enforced fair and balanced outcomes for all Americans. Leave aside the thorny fact that government cannot succeed in producing such an outcome–that it’s completely impossible for government to do that.
Most importantly, the key takeaway from yesterday’s speech is that Obama’s version of the American Dream is an American nightmare where unlimited opportunity becomes “a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home, and secure their retirement.”
Sounds all very pleasant, but it’s a far cry from the land of unlimited opportunity where anyone can do or become anything they want if they’re willing to work for it.
People don’t immigrate to America to get by modestly and then quietly die. That is the life they want to immigrate from, not to! The American Dream is about unlimited personal and societal growth and creative opportunity. It’s about a life accessible to anyone that is not limited by heritage, not limited by any other man within a consensual framework, and especially not limited by a government “by and for the people.”
America has the largest middle class of any country because it’s where a lot of people end up after aiming for the top. If Obama succeeds in convincing Americans to aim for the middle, he will have lowered expectations for all Americans, and the ranks of impoverished Americans will grow.
A president should lead the country by expressing high ideals, not low expectations. This has always been a problem with both Michelle and Barack.
“The fortress was attacked five times between 1250 and 1482. Twice, 1298 and 1367, the citizens of Passau themselves rebelled against the Bishop.”
After a couple hundred years of open government in America and the advent of domestic terrorism, many of our government buildings have been converted to secure fortresses. Public union demonstrators recently took over the Wisconsin state capital. There’s no doubt that given access, today’s “occupants” would be camping in, and shouting down all visitors to, government buildings in cities across the country. Fortress America must now protect itself from its own people. The Founders would conclude that our republic has been forfeited. Reasonable political debate does not occur under the threat of force, at the point of a leftist spear.
Landmark Speeches of National Socialism, Edited by Randall L. Bytwerk
The number of speeches Obama has given since taking office roughly equals the number of days he has been in office.
The editors and columnists at Investor’s Business Daily [Investors.com] regularly provide sound analysis of the Obama administration, however, they may be missing the real nature of Obama.
He’s not just campaigning. He’s relentlessly propagandizing a dangerous mythology with himself at the center.
The Beasts of Buchenwald by Flint Whitlock
A clear lesson from our recent visit to Germany and studies spawned from our visit to the Documentation Center is that, while Hitler was the fearless leader who catalyzed their national socialism, it was the millions of citizens and bureaucrats all doing their parts to fulfill his vision that did the damage. You can blame the leadership for initializing the movement and the programs, but then it took broad efforts by everyone to bring those visions into existence
Today in America we watch the President, and presidential contenders for warning signs. Meanwhile, bureaucracies in the federal, state, county, local and various tax districts grind out on a daily basis volumes of legal pronouncements about what we must do to be in compliance with their authorities. This is a pernicious fascism that proceeds pell-mell every day in pursuit of a mythical perfect society, and it can never reach fruition.
We need to stop this madness, unwind these fatuous authorities. This myth of the perfectable society has caused enough damage in America.
Have the OWS useful idiots been set up, organized and funded through Obama and paid for by George Soros, to provide an expendable target for the national socialists?
We’ll see. National socialism needs an enemy. Conservatives are wise to this gang, they’re not going to play along, and they’re too well armed. Occupants, however, are stupid. It’s not plausible that Obama and Soros would make them the standard bearers for leftist policy. So they must be there for another purpose, and cannon fodder, so to speak, is about all that’s left.
Imagine what businesses and employment opportunities would arise in a free country without business taxation.
by Flint Whitlock, The Beasts of Buchenwald, pg. 15.
“It mattered not to a great many people that this man, Adolf Hitler, had a funny, postage-stamp moustache and a raspy voice and had failed at his dream of becoming an artist or an architect and had been a homeless beggar on the streets of Vienna before the war and wasn’t even a native-born German. What mattered was the mesmerizing, hypnotic spell his speeches cast on those listening to him. What mattered was the way his talks always began slowly and quietly and haltingly, so that everyone had to strain to hear his words, then built to a thundering crescendo, much like an opera by his favorite composer, Richard Wagner. What mattered was the fire in his messianic eyes as he told his audience what they wanted to hear—that it had been the Jews and the communists working secretly behind the scenes that had undermined the German Army and had brought about the catastrophic defeat. What mattered was his message that he and his Nazi Party were the only ones who could reverse the nation’s descent into certain chaos and irrelevancy. What mattered was that he and he alone could stop the contamination of “impure” races that threatened to weaken the pure, Germanic, “Aryan” race. What mattered was that Hitler and his steadfast vision and his unshakeable will promised to restore Germany to its former greatness. What mattered was that Hitler saw the Germanic people as a species of super humans, destined to rule the world.
Hearing what they were fervently desperate to believe, millions of otherwise sensible Germans decided to join the Nazi Party, slip on the swastika armband or pin on the Nazi Party lapel pin, yell Sieg Heil! (“Hail Victory!”) at the inspirational mass Party rallies, give each other the stiff-armed fascist salute, and blindly follow their Fuhrer, no matter where he led.
So it came to pass that in 1932, through a series of bizarre, almost comic-opera occurrences, and the naive belief by those in power who thought they could control the upstart Austrian radical by bringing him into the government, Hitler proved more cunning than any of his foes. His Nazi Party quickly became a force to be reckoned with in Parliament and Hitler himself was named Chancellor of Germany.
Of course, not all Germans held the fervent belief that Hitler was Germany’s savior. Not every German thought that nazism was good for the country, nor that the Jews should be excluded from German society, nor that government control of almost every aspect of civilian life was a worthy goal.
For these people—these non-believers—Hitler and his minions had a special place.
It was called the Konzentrationslager—the concentration camp.”
Curing illegal immigration is a sequence. Here’s my plan:
Eliminate incentives. These two laws attract illegals from all over the world.
Congress must disallow anchor baby citizenship under the 14th Am.
Congress must repeal the unfunded health care mandate of EMTALA which requires all hospitals receiving federal funds to treat and stabilize without regard to ability to pay.
Improve border security by all means appropriate for each geographical area.
Empty prisons of all illegals — who comprise 20% of current populations. Send them back.
End all affirmative action and tuition entitlements.
Eliminate non-english language official publications from all government functions.
After all the above, illegals who remain on a level playing field with Americans should be granted a path to citizenship or the option to leave.
After a reasonable time frame when all the above is complete, strictly enforce citizenship credentials in the work place.
In the context of this election season with Republicans engaged in presidential policy debates each week, “Capitol Punishment” should be read right now by every American interested in curing the abuses in Washington.
Jack Abramoff’s prescription for real reform in Washington:
If a recovered alcoholic told you how to quit drinking, you’d listen.
By James Lewis
Is getting a job. So you won’t have to leech off Mom and Dad anymore.
So look, kids. There are all kinds of useful Occupations. But first one is to get a job and stop bothering productive people who are paying to keep your sorry hide in food, clothing, shelter, and police protection.
Lotsa luck, kids.
Don’t forget to grow up.
We were downtown last night, taking our son to visit with the USC Marching Band who are in town for the CU game this evening. As it turned out we spent an hour in a small v.i.p. setting with Dr. Bartner, his wife, and a dozen or so leaders of the USC program, who gave us a presentation of the amazing history of the USC band and Dr. Bartner’s career, with the experience capped by hearing some warm up routines with a contingent of senior players brought here for the game. All in all, a superlative experience we had not expected – we looked through a window into a truly amazing world that any kid would give his eye teeth to join.
So, it was a rare occasion for us downtown and coincidently the occupation is the subject of probably half of the broadcast TV news and talk radio shows. Michael Moore was in town today to pump up the faithful, and we decided to cruise Broadway in front of the capitol on our way home to see what all the fuss is about.
We saw thirty or forty people huddled around each other on the sidewalk directly across the street from the capitol, and about a half a block of various sized piles of messy human belongings, and a fair amount of trash. It looked like a refugee camp, very sad, even pathetic. The righteous democratic outpouring we’re bombarded with by the media is rooted in a fiction, a delusion of grandeur.
The tea party had significant numbers in the streets across the country and in Washington and the media all but ignored them. This scamming bunch of several dozen pathological malcontents is getting enough media coverage to make it look like the second coming. Go see for yourself. As Gertrude Stein once wrote about Oakland, “there is no there there.”
