Endangered Species Act

The heat is turned up on a proposed review of the efficacy of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Republicans are saying that the evidence is in that the ESA achieves very little in its task to save endangered species. In fact, research tells us that few if any species are being helped by the act. Yet Democrats are pulling out the heavy artillery to stop any its bitsy look-see at their act. Truth is that the ESA is a major construct of the "Blind Faith Secular" government religion.

This religious movement feels that all of their laws and feelings are infallible. That only non-believers ignorant of their religion would question what the faithful know. This position is breathtaking because the vast majority of the Blind Faith religion are paid by tax dollars. There are researchers and scientists. Teachers and professors. The elected and bureaucrats. All preaching and all unconstitutionally using our tax dollars to worship.

How is this expressed? Conservatives are for the first time asking questions about conclusions made by certain global warming and environmental experts. Yet these experts are running for the exits. They claim they are being persecuted. They are hiding behind their political handlers. Liberals say that all conclusions are vetted by scientists. And all research is peer approved. In English, they say that each member of their religion reviews other members of their religion. And after decades of review after review. Their conclusions are right.

This process mirrors the liberal political processes. A number of liberals get together to debate policy. They select one to be the conservative. Then they beat up on him until he says that he has changed his mind. Then they tell us that this policy was fully and fairly debated in a bipartisan spirit. I remember a John Kerry friend telling the media that "John always reviews every issue from 25 viewpoints." My response is why does he always arrive at the same political place? That's not coincidence, it's ignorance and bigotry.

The ESA is one of the Blind Faith religion's commandments. So expect a fight unlike any other when conservatives demand that the act be reviewed for results. There are none because the act was never intended to save species. It was written to restrict property ownership, to slow economic development, to end the use of cars, to slow population growth, and to redistribute wealth. It works quite well in this arena. And that's what the conservatives seek to end.



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Louisiana #1 for Federal ACE Aid in 2004

The Army Corps of Engineers has released their budget to show that Louisiana received more federal aid than any other state over the past 5 years and much more than under the Clinton Administration. This announcement seems to undercut Democrat accusations that the Bush administration caused the levee failures by cutting Corps funding. Not True!

In fact, Louisiana receives much more than California with five times the ocean front, five times the ports, and seven times the population. A closer review of the budget by the Washington Post highlights breathtaking abuse of our federal dollars. One project to the tune of almost $800 million is rebuilding virtually unused locks on one of the canals. A $20 million repair to the old locks was turned down by Democrats. So Senator Landreaux then sneaked the $800 million into a Iraq funding bill.

The Washington Post says that the vast majority of the Corps' funding is not used for flood control but rather unrelated pork projects for Louisiana Democrats. Yet it is they and their brethren that are shrill in their personal attacks on the president and every person he's ever met in his lifetime. Even then, the Corps says that the levees that failed were recently overhauled and were the best and strongest money could buy. That fact seems to get lost in minority congresswoman Pelosi's and minority Senator Reid's rants and character assassinations.

These revelations further underscore that some in government care little about facts. These are the same "truthtellers" that are demanding we stop our economic expansion for global warming action. Now how can any reasonable person believe these misguided and often truth challenged people? We can't. Recent efforts to identify the "experts" that found global warming and those who tested their conclusions, are coming up short of answers. For some of us that's not surprising. Climate change is real, but global warming is a political and eco-religious movement.


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Robert F Kennedy Jr. To Earth's Rescue!

I'm sleeping better tonight because I know that R F Kennedy Jr. is out in his Lear Jet telling all that President Bush caused Hurricane Katrina. In an article posted on Yahoo! News from Huffingtonpost.com, Kennedy tells us that President
Bush caused Katrina by ignoring the Kyoto Protocols, like Clinton did, and by refusing to redefine earth's carbon building blocks as pollution. Now that's a mouthful.

Here's a guy who uses dozens of extra large SUVs and flys in Jets while he joins with his uncle, Teddy the brain and brawn, when they chat with eco-abuser John Kerry. As a side bar, years ago Ted Kennedy was photographed taking a professional girl out on his boat. A few miles off shore they shed their swim suits to engage in horizontal communication. When the Senate saw the pictures in one of the national tattlers, a noted Democrat was heard to say that: "Kennedy's position on off-shore drilling seems to have changed."

Bobby Jr goes on to quote the change in administration policy: A moment of truth is arriving, Barbour wrote,in the form of a decision whether this Administration's policy will be to regulate and/or tax CO2 as a pollutant. The question is whether environmental policy still prevails over energy policy with Bush-Cheney, as it did with Clinton-Gore. He derided the idea of regulating CO2 as eco-extremism, and chided them for allowing environmental concerns to trump good energy policy, which the country has lacked for eight years.

That's good energy policy and science over "Blind Faith Secular Socialism" that attacks anyone who questions their beliefs. Whatever happened to separation of church and state? And we are paying some of the church members disguised as researchers and bureaucrats. I love this planet. I marched on the first Earth Day. My favorite art is circa 1950 pictures of Yosemity National Park. I contributed time to the Sierra Club before it became an eco-religious cult. So don't tell me about ecology and caring.

But I also believe in America and its freedoms. Freedoms of choice that the Secularists try to deny us. Choice of self defense, choice of transportation, choice of education, choice of housing, choice of property ownership, choice of work and business and the right to speak without the political correctness police arresting us. Blind Faith Secularlists know it all and Bobby Jr. is a know it all for sure.





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Scientist: "knowledge as distinguished from ignorance."

Scientists are revered by left of center thinkers for their ability to separate themselves from feelings and biases while they seek the truth. Scientists don't believe in anything. Not Santa or the Easter Bunny. Not the tooth Ferry or God. They are the pillars of truth and tested opinion, they stand alone among us mere mortals who need to grasp at straws to make sense of things.

So why are scientists running for the exits now that many are starting to ask questions about their methodology, or how they connect sometimes invisible dots. Global warming is said to be absolute due to peer review and multiple testing. Say what? Show us the money and the results. Where's the beef? Why hide behind political hacks that attack the questioners? Why not allow real questions so that global warming can be tested scientifically?

So today comes another blow to the body science. The NY times writes that the UN is now publishing the results of 100 of the most heralded radiation scientists that went to Chernobyl to study the aftermath of that most extreme nuclear accident. And guess what? The real science is light years from the not-so-scientific-science offered at the time of the event and in the years thereafter.

The experts were so far off reality that their opinions are totally irrelevant in today's terms. They said tens of thousands would die from radiation sickness. Today only 400 deaths can be directly attributed to the event while another 4,000 are possible. We were told that radiation would linger for several hundred years. It is gone after 20 years. Not that 20 years are irrelevant, but the experts were so far off that they must review every thought, every theory, every statement because they are based on a 'flat earth" concept.

How can these guys be so wrong? Especially since radiation is easy to study after two bombs were dropped on Japan and tests were plentiful in the 20th century. Point is that even with this elementary science, the experts are out to lunch. Now let's talk climate. Not a single conclusion can go unchallenged and untested by outside experts. We might demand that every scientist learn how to define his designation.

Species Management

Congress reconvenes to begin some of the heaviest legislative lifting of this generation. Entitlement programs must be reeled in and controlled, once and for all time. Defined retirement for government workers must be ended because these programs pay out more than was earned by the beneficiary. Tort reform needs to be broadened so that we can end the lottery of riches for some at the expense of others. Recently a jury awarded $250 million punitive damages for a case where the man died of other causes. They said that it was fair and just, though.

And it's now or never to rework the Endangered species Act. This act is among a few that are used as hammers to force extreme landuse and zoning restrictions and finally to end private property rights in America. Eco and Enviro extremists feel this act is the foundation for attacking man's footprint on earth. And it is written so loosely that sympathetic judges can take it and run.

We see how this act can be abused in the greater Seattle region. Step one started with federal suits that claimed that individual species of salmon were dying out. Salmon is now the world's number one food fish in terms of tons harvested annually. So the trick to get protection was to distinguish the species by each stream they inhabit. As a sidebar, recently a group started getting Killer Whales or Orca listed because a single pod speaks differently than another. So it's not just where salmon live, but also what dialect whales speak.

Don't get me wrong. I love animals and would do anything reasonable to help those in need. But enviro and eco extremists are fascists that demand that animals act and speak and play and live and die as they see fit. A good example was Keiko, the whale made famous by the film "Save Willey." Well when ole Keiko failed to stay in Iceland where the extremists said he must, they called for him to be euthanized. And a few weeks later he lay dead in a fjord in Sweden. They said he died of an infection. Oh Ya! Wasn't that convenient. We have moved individual oracs throughout the sound at the cost of millions because they whale didn't conform to Orca experts' behavior and family relationship rules.

We all know about the snail darter, the marlet, the infamous spotted owl and more. In Seattle we kill indigenous sea lions to save wild salmon. We kill Canada geese by the thousands to keep lawns clean. We kill crows and other birds because they are a nuisance. And recently we began to kill owls that are competing for spotted owl territory. Now that's respect for wildlife. Whatever happened to evolution and species selection? Not for those who use the hammer of the Endangered Species Act.

It's time to end this madness.




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Katarina was caused by Global Warming. NOT!

It's now 72 hours AK, that's "After Katarina." And we are hearing the dishonest and disingenuous propaganda from the envirowarriors. They tell us that hurricanes are increasing in intensity due to Global Warming. And that President Bush is the cause of all Global Warming. Why? Because he didn't propose and sign the Kyoto Protocol. Of course they forget that Bill Clinton didn't propose it either. He just let it languish hoping that a fool like Al Gore might be elected president. At least this administration said what Clinton was afraid to say: Kyoto is a fraud!

Back to Katarina. She was a bute. Yet hurricane experts tell us that the mid-Atlantic Ocean is in the high point of hundreds of years oscillation. That means that hurricanes are more plentiful and sometimes more aggressive. These oscillations move across the globe. A decade ago I was in Tokyo when they suffered their most furious recorded typhoon. We were in a cab and within 30 minutes the water was up to the window of the cab. The wind exceeded 150 miles an hour that afternoon. The subways were flooded and all traffic stopped. As a side bar, I taught a bartender at the Tokyo Hilton to pour perfect manhattans. He was very happy to do so. Bob Lee, one of the world's foremost life insurance executives, sat with me while we drank three doubles. Problem was that they cost $170 each. What do you think about a $1,500 six drink tab?

Back to Katarina. Experts tell us that typhoons and hurricanes around the globe are on the down side of the oscillation. They are down and we are up. Global Warming we ask? Not a factor they say. Anyone who says that Global Warming had even an iota to do with this hurricane is a member of the "Blind Faith Secular Socialist" religion. They care little about science or about reality. They just believe that mankind's influence on the planet must be controlled and diminished.

One more thing about Katarina. Look at the uneducated and government dependent masses in New Orleans, that have no idea what to do to save their families or themselves. This is the result of 70 years of liberal secular socialism. We have allowed ignorant politicians to take tens of TRILLIONS of our tax dollars for their programs and projects that have increased poverty and dependence. Look at the human resources that are lost for all time. These are smart people who have been herded and abused until they have no hope. If ever there is a time to see what secular socialism has achieved, look at New Orleans today, Thursday, September 1, 2005.

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