It Ain’t Easy Being Green
Apr 27, 2007 Political
Global Warming! The mantra from the left is heard everywhere and it has progressed to legislatures where hapless politicians jump on board the GW train by enacting legislation that will cost billions of dollars and not do one damned thing to solve this so-called man made condition. In Maryland the Democrats who tout their commitment to the working stiff a bill was signed into law by Saint Martin O’Malley forcing the state to adopt California car emission standards. I guess all that smog in California convinced them that this will work in cleaning up air that is no where near that in California. Maryland already forces car owners to get their emissions checked (at $14.00 a pop) and that was not good enough. Now we will have to shell out around three grand more for a vehicle. Thank goodness my jeep still has a lot of miles left on it.
But how do these champions of the environment do in their own lives? The platoon (I really should not attribute a military term to Democrats) of people who want to be the next Democratic President had a debate in South Carolina last night. We will not discuss the insanity of debating this far in advance and instead focus on their greenness with regard to the debate. All of the hopefuls flew separately in non-commercial aircraft in order to get to the event. None of them flew commercial, none of them shared the same plane and therefore the costs. None of them did anything (even though at least four of them left the same place (DC)) that would reduce their carbon footprints. They all flew in either corporate jets or chartered flights and this means that nearly a dozen separate planes flew these environmentally friendly people to the event. The cost was also staggering considering they could have booked First Class seats on a commercial carrier for a thousand dollars or less but instead used campaign money to spend between 7 and 9 thousand dollars to fly on a chartered aircraft.
How can these people keep telling us they are fiscally responsible or that they are just like the rest of us when they continue to spend money recklessly and use their positions to fly like kings instead of one of the people they claim to represent? How can they claim to be stewards of the environment when they would not even coordinate with each other so that one chartered flight was used? Better yet, why did they not take commercial flights and same both money and the environment? There are 35,000 flights a day in the US so I find it difficult to believe that they could not get a seat and even if their busy schedules required special arrangements they could have flown together and shared the costs.
The reason is quite simple. They are the do as I say and not as I do crowd. They do not have to follow the rules that they impose upon the rest of us. According to the Gospel of Gore man is causing global warming and man needs to be more thoughtful of the environment. Just like the prophet Gore whose house uses more energy in a month than the average household uses in a year, the Democratic contenders conduct their business with little regard for the environment that they all say we are destroying. This phenomenon is not unique to Democrats because it is pervasive throughout the Congress. They all impose rules on us that they do not follow. However, since those Democrats have made global warming an issue and have espoused taxing us into oblivion to repair it, it is only fitting to call them to task for their hypocrisy.
As a solider I know that one of the most important things a leader can do is lead by example. I shared the same hardships as my soldiers and I never had them do something that I would not do. With Congress, and these Democrats in particular, the idea of leadership is do as I say and not as I do. Their idea of leadership is where the monarchy has one set of rules for the royal elite and another for the rest of us poor rubes. They believe they have the education and experience to tell us, the misinformed and uneducated masses, how to live life. Unfortunately, most of these Presidential hopefuls could not empty a urinal if the directions were written on the bottom.
Is it any wonder Congress has a lower approval rating than the President?
As an aside, I am not a GW believer (I think they call me a denier) but if they are going to espouse it, I am going to hold them to it.
Source:
Newsday
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Chicago Hispanics Protest Raid
Apr 25, 2007 Uncategorized
Heavily armed and protected federal agents raided a strip mall in a predominantly Hispanic Chicago neighborhood and a lot of the locals were not real happy about it. The agents were looking for people making and selling fake identification including Social Security cards. Officials did not release any information about any arrests or materials seized.
The Hispanics are unhappy because we are enforcing the law. The ones who are here ILLEGALLY broke the law to get here so we already know they have no regard for the law. Many in that neighborhood know who the ILLEGALS are and they protect them which means whether they came here legally or not they are breaking the law. That might pass muster in Mexico but it is not acceptable here in the US. Many of these Hispanics feel that the raid was designed to intimidate them from participating in a protest scheduled for May 1st. The protest is in response to federal raids nationwide.
The Hispanic community thinks that their silly protests shut things down and that we can not live without them. If they want to see if this is true they can all go home and we will find out. However, the fact remains that ILLEGALS and the people who harbor them are breaking the law and they should be put in jail. They should be part of chain gangs that we make do state and federal landscaping and road clean up for free as part of their sentence. Then we should put them to work building a huge wall on the southern border. When they have worked off their crime we can send them back to where they belong. Also, if these people are busy doing the jobs Americans won’t do, how do they have so much time to protest?
I am at the point now, because of their blatant disregard for our laws, that whenever I see a Hispanic the first thing I think to myself is “I wonder if this person is legal.”
We need to secure our borders and get rid of the law breaking vermin that slithered in during the night.
Source:
Breitbart
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More Global Warming News to Ponder
Apr 9, 2007 Uncategorized
Al Gore and all his buddies in Hollywood and on the Liberal left have this idea that the Earth has a fever and that we are all going to burn to death or melt like the witch in the Wizard of Oz. Global warming is their game and their desire is to earn billions of dollars by imposing tough standards on all of us with regard to energy use. I am all for conserving energy because it lowers the bill I have to pay. I have the energy saving light bulbs in my house (where they can be safely placed) and I turn out lights I am not using but I do not want to be taxed to death to pay for something that the planet Mars has proven is not man made and that history shows is cyclic in nature and will not result in the cataclysmic destruction of the world as we know it.
Here is some news from the world of global warming. It is Spring, the time the birds sing and flowers bloom and we homeowners can get out our gas powered mowers and emit CO2. It is also the time that baseball makes its return to the national scene. In Ohio, the Cleveland Indians had to cancel all their games this weekend and the Commissioner of baseball is considering canceling all their home games this week and moving them to Los Angeles. Why, you ask? Because Cleveland had a blizzard that dumped 16 inches of snow on the ground. A blizzard in the Spring hardly seems like the result of global warming though the believers will blame it on that very thing.
Some Spring (read Easter) festivities had to be canceled or were held with folks bundled up like they were going ice fishing and this happened all across the country. Additionally, Charlotte North Carolina had the coldest April day in its history (or at least the history of when they started keeping track of such things). It flurried during the New york Yankee?Baltimore Oriole baseball game yesterday (the Orioles won) and news reports of Easter celebrations showed people dressed more appropriately for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Looks like every time Al Gore and his minions start trumping up global warming Mother Nature blasts us with more cold weather. Perhaps the planet does have a fever but if it does Mother Nature seems to be cooling it off quite nicely.
Sources:
My Way
The Charlotte Observer
UPDATE: Otters dying young because of the cold! (Anchorage Daily News)
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Cindy Scripture, Sheehan’s Bible Thumping
Apr 7, 2007 Political
A problem arises when people who are not versed in the Bible and the teachings of Jesus try to invoke scripture to score political points. Cindy Sheehan had such a situation recently when she took her Momma Moonbat crusade on a tour against the Democrats, the party she loved and supported in the last election. Yes, the Dems promised her they would bring the troops home and end the war and they got a lot of free publicity as Momma Moonbat advertised for them. She sat in a ditch in Texas to protest the President and the war (I wonder if she will go to the Dominican to protest Hillary and her vote to authorize the war).
I am no Biblical scholar, though I imagine I have read the Bible more times than Sheehan. I am sure I have been to more Bible study than she as well. What does that mean? Nothing really, except I can recognize when she is using the Bible as a political tool rather than a tool that teaches us how to guide our lives. Here is what Cindy had to say about the Dems:
“Our message is: Today is Good Friday, when Jesus Christ was killed by the Roman Empire. He rose again on Sunday, came back to life. But our loved ones won’t be coming home” from Iraq, she told reporters.
The protesters will tell Bush “to end this madness for our families,” said Sheehan, who took a tough line against Democrats who harnessed anger at the Iraq war to recapture the US Congress in November.
“They got there and they betrayed the grass roots that put them back there,” she said. “We can’t depend on the Democrats.”
She reports that Jesus rose again and came back to life but that our loved ones (the war dead) will not be coming back home. According to scripture, they are home. They have gone home to the Father. Jesus rose from the dead and appeared on Earth but he ascended to Heaven to be home with the Father. Now this might be a nit picky little thing but the fact is, Sheehan used the name of Jesus and one of the most holy Christian holidays to score political points and the reference she made makes no sense in the context of the Bible.
This is not to diminish her loss in any way though I believe that she is mentally unstable and has milked the death of her son to push her own political agenda. She is pushing to be remembered, in future history books, as the person who put and end to the war. She will be remembered but in the same fondness with which Veterans afford Jane Fonda. In any event, Sheehan is mad that the Democrats ran on a platform of “we will immediately bring the troops home.” This resonated with the moonbats and they lapped up the Kool-aid while being blindly led astray. Now that the Dems have not done what they said they would (on many issues, mind you) the anti-war nuts like Cindy are up in arms. Sheehan is becoming even more unhinged than she usually is. As an aside, I heard he in DC when I was with the Gathering of Eagles and she is even more irritating in person than she is on TV.
Sheehan could learn a lot about Christianity by actually reading a Bible. That would be a better activity than protesting and looking foolish. BTW Cindy, yes the Romans put Jesus to death but they did so at the request of the people (who only a week prior worshiped him when he entered town). Pilate offered them a chance to save Jesus by allowing them to select him as the criminal that was released according to tradition. The people chose Barabas, a bad criminal, over Jesus and the Romans put him to death for the people, not because Jesus had committed a crime against Rome. Your reference to the Empire is carefully worded to equivocate Bush’s terms in office to an Empire.
Cindy would do a lot better by spending her time mending fences in her own family and moving on in her life. Her son died on a combat mission he volunteered for in the service he volunteered to join. He is a hero and is probably spinning in his grave because his mother is feeding her ego at his expense.
Source:
Breitbart
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Peaceful Students Attack Rove
Apr 4, 2007 Uncategorized
White House Adviser Karl Rove was at American University to speak with College Republicans. When he left a group of disorderly students threw things at his car and some laid down in front of it preventing him from driving off. This seems to be the normal course for liberal college students. They decry war and violence and then they attack (and assault) people and break the law. How many times have we read about these kinds of things? Ann Coulter is constantly attacked and military recruiters take their lives in their hands each time they visit a campus full of liberal cowards.
I am no celebrity and I do not get asked to speak nearly as many times as these other folks do so I will not have to worry about this but I just want to make one thing clear. If a group of protesters ever lies down in front of my vehicle to block me I am going to drive over them and then back up to make sure I got it right. How ironic would it be for one of those idiots to get squished by an SUV? If you are throwing things at the car it means you intend to harm someone and if you lie down in the street it means you want to get run over.
Rove did not run over the punks and they were eventually pulled out of the way by police. Seems to me that these idiots laid down in front of the car trusting that Rove was decent enough not to run over them. They sure placed a lot of trust in the humanity of a man that they call evil and felt compelled to attack. I would not be so humane…
The sad part, no one was arrested.
Source:
NBC 4
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