The news is in. Year 2005 was possibly the warmest in 10,000 years by nudging 1998 for the not-so-special honor. Envirowars wonders how the scientists feel they can peg this as the warmest in 10,000 years. And we of course feel that even if it was the warmest, why was it and what caused it? These questions often seem beyond reasonable discourse because global warming is a political concept often unsupported by real science.
It's probably easy to agree that the Earth's not been very warm since the top of the last major ice age, which was not-so-coincidentally 10,000 years ago. Dah. But that's not all. We had a major mini-ice age for a few hundred years in the 19th century. Why is that important? For two reasons.
First, this mini-ice age was ignored by climatologists because it didn't fit their climate models. And second, the fact that there was a recent Northern European ice age, means that warming since then MUST accelerate. And what is our planet doing? It's warming as predicted.
So the climate cooled to a point 10,000 years ago until it started warming. Why? Cars or powerplants? Nah. Just another oscillation in the life of what appears to be a very dynamic planet. Then it warmed for about 9,000 plus years and then cooled for about 500 or so. Now it's warming again for a few hundred.
How does man and his footprint fit in? No thinking person knows. Only political scientists parading as real scientists feel they know. So why does it matter that 2005 was the warmest since the end of the last ice age? It doesn't! It's expected that every century away from an ice age will be warmer than the last, unless it starts cooling again for the short-term or begins cooling toward another ice age. Since the planet is dynamic, it will warm or cool. IT WILL NEVER STAY THE SAME!
So envirowars asks again: Does it matter that 2005 was the warmest in 10,000 years? No! Here are the sites for Goddard and National Climate Data for 2005 temperature assessment. Read them and wonder what it means.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Science Defined
Some believe that "big science," one of the world's largest industries, was highjacked by political extremists in the 1980s. On closer examination, few can argue that a political coalition dominates scientific thought. As with other American institutions, the scientific community is religiously and politically cleansed. No God believers or conservative thinkers need apply. So it's important to define the different types of science the people are exposed to every day.
I go to "Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. By Robert Park" for assistance. Park delineates what he means by voodoo science with several adjectives to deplore the misuse of acceptable science.
Admitting that "science fascinates us by its power to surprise," he describes pathological science as misinterpreting events that lead to an inclination to see what is expected. I believe that evolution theory is pathological science. Scientists know there is no God so they backfill that conclusion with make believe feelings.
Park says Junk science is misleading lawmakers and others with little or no scientific proof or background. Environmental science is generally junk science according to many legal and credible scientific minds. Very little enviroscience is based on actual observations. The vast majority is gleaned from biased climate modeling.
Pseudoscience is a belief in space aliens who travel faster than the speed of light, or a belief that wearing magnets in one's shoes will enable a person to draw energy from the earth. Global warming is pseudoscience. Energy control advocates, growth management abusers, and fossil fuel haters are all segments of a political concept that is wrapped around the need to stop man-made-activities because they cause: global warming! This is political corruption.
And fraudulent science, is the evolution of honest error to self-delusion and then to fraud. The endangered species act is a good example of fraudulent science. Early feelings that habitat and fresh water quality caused reduced salmon runs were proved wrong. Yet the fraudulent scientists took the then discredited feelings to extort tax dollars from the government and to steal property rights from the people. This fraud is criminal.
I go to "Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud. By Robert Park" for assistance. Park delineates what he means by voodoo science with several adjectives to deplore the misuse of acceptable science.
Admitting that "science fascinates us by its power to surprise," he describes pathological science as misinterpreting events that lead to an inclination to see what is expected. I believe that evolution theory is pathological science. Scientists know there is no God so they backfill that conclusion with make believe feelings.
Park says Junk science is misleading lawmakers and others with little or no scientific proof or background. Environmental science is generally junk science according to many legal and credible scientific minds. Very little enviroscience is based on actual observations. The vast majority is gleaned from biased climate modeling.
Pseudoscience is a belief in space aliens who travel faster than the speed of light, or a belief that wearing magnets in one's shoes will enable a person to draw energy from the earth. Global warming is pseudoscience. Energy control advocates, growth management abusers, and fossil fuel haters are all segments of a political concept that is wrapped around the need to stop man-made-activities because they cause: global warming! This is political corruption.
And fraudulent science, is the evolution of honest error to self-delusion and then to fraud. The endangered species act is a good example of fraudulent science. Early feelings that habitat and fresh water quality caused reduced salmon runs were proved wrong. Yet the fraudulent scientists took the then discredited feelings to extort tax dollars from the government and to steal property rights from the people. This fraud is criminal.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Peer Review and Conclusion Support
There is little question that the scientific community is the ultimate good old boy network. Generally it's not what you know, it's who you know. Then it's who you work with and who funds your research. This is a corrupt pyramid scheme. The higher a scientist rises in the pyramid, the greater his power, authority, and funding control.
The problem with this type of "managed research" is that the pyramid has no diversity of thought and zero tolerance for political diversity. In fact, diversity of thought is the death knell for any chance of moving up the food chain. This is not your father's form of evolution. It's political extremism.
Today's N Y Times publishes a comment about the recently discovered embryonic stem cell fraud in South Korea. The scientific community is full of papers and research that exemplifies "mission creep" and progressive bloviating. In fact, when published papers and research are randomly verified, as many as half have untruths, dishonesties, or major factual errors.
So how does the scientific community protect itself from outside scrutiny? It allows unrelated scientists to write papers and research conclusions as an honorary reward for their long-term work. Kinda like a career Oscar. This came to light recently when some in Congress sought to learn about global warming. Members subpoenaed records from the 3 most quoted climate researchers. Two ran for the exit doors. They claimed that they didn't participate in global warming work. So why pick on them, say answered? Other's asked why would scientists write conclusions for scientific work without knowing the facts or believing in the result? Honorary 5 and 6 figure compensation. Is this rent a scientist or what?
So along come some publishers that say they will now ask authors to sign that they actually understand the paper or the research and they agree with it. Dah! But not to worry! The scientific community is fighting back. They say this will silence critically important science and will sensor important opinions. I wonder how much secular socialist political pressure there is on the not so politically diverse scientific community? It seems opportune for congress to withhold research funding until scientist's understand our nation's criminal laws against fraud and tax theft.
The problem with this type of "managed research" is that the pyramid has no diversity of thought and zero tolerance for political diversity. In fact, diversity of thought is the death knell for any chance of moving up the food chain. This is not your father's form of evolution. It's political extremism.
Today's N Y Times publishes a comment about the recently discovered embryonic stem cell fraud in South Korea. The scientific community is full of papers and research that exemplifies "mission creep" and progressive bloviating. In fact, when published papers and research are randomly verified, as many as half have untruths, dishonesties, or major factual errors.
So how does the scientific community protect itself from outside scrutiny? It allows unrelated scientists to write papers and research conclusions as an honorary reward for their long-term work. Kinda like a career Oscar. This came to light recently when some in Congress sought to learn about global warming. Members subpoenaed records from the 3 most quoted climate researchers. Two ran for the exit doors. They claimed that they didn't participate in global warming work. So why pick on them, say answered? Other's asked why would scientists write conclusions for scientific work without knowing the facts or believing in the result? Honorary 5 and 6 figure compensation. Is this rent a scientist or what?
So along come some publishers that say they will now ask authors to sign that they actually understand the paper or the research and they agree with it. Dah! But not to worry! The scientific community is fighting back. They say this will silence critically important science and will sensor important opinions. I wonder how much secular socialist political pressure there is on the not so politically diverse scientific community? It seems opportune for congress to withhold research funding until scientist's understand our nation's criminal laws against fraud and tax theft.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Evolution & Ecosystems?
One of the most critical climate and habitat modeling and forecasting components is that nature requires millennia upon millennia for evolution to coordinate plant and animal evolution of a habitat like a rain forest. Yet real science tells us otherwise. An article in the Independent's Energy Bulletin tells us that an extremely complex rainforest has developed on Ascension Island in less than 150 years time.
The mid-Atlantic island is known to be the last stop for the Darwin carrying Beagle on it's way home. Darwin is said to have called it: "entirely destitute of plants and trees." Then the Royal Navy began spreading tree and plant species from several continents. Now Green Mountain, once called White Mountain, is a thriving tropical forest. Yet it grew from species collected randomly. Energy Bulletin says that "conventional theory suggests complex ecosystems only emerge through a slow evolution in which different organisms develop in tandem to fill particular niches. But Green Mountain suggests that natural rainforests and other ecosystems may be constructed more by chance than by evolution."
This turns evolution and natural climate change theory on its head. And what does this say about today's ecosystems and climate? It says that "global warming science" is just a thought. Not yet an idea but ions from being a theory. In fact many, if not most of the assumptions about ecosystems, evolution, and their relationship to climate are invalid when real observations on Ascension are given even limited weight.
What do climate and evolution specialists say: "Ascension doesn't count."
The mid-Atlantic island is known to be the last stop for the Darwin carrying Beagle on it's way home. Darwin is said to have called it: "entirely destitute of plants and trees." Then the Royal Navy began spreading tree and plant species from several continents. Now Green Mountain, once called White Mountain, is a thriving tropical forest. Yet it grew from species collected randomly. Energy Bulletin says that "conventional theory suggests complex ecosystems only emerge through a slow evolution in which different organisms develop in tandem to fill particular niches. But Green Mountain suggests that natural rainforests and other ecosystems may be constructed more by chance than by evolution."
This turns evolution and natural climate change theory on its head. And what does this say about today's ecosystems and climate? It says that "global warming science" is just a thought. Not yet an idea but ions from being a theory. In fact many, if not most of the assumptions about ecosystems, evolution, and their relationship to climate are invalid when real observations on Ascension are given even limited weight.
What do climate and evolution specialists say: "Ascension doesn't count."
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Gore's Screensaver ends!
It is said that Al, "I invented the Internet," Gore woke one morning with an idea to send a multi-million dollar camera into space to send back ongoing pictures of our planet. He says that the picture might be used in classrooms where children can see the earth in real time. He says that might put the fragile earth into children's mind. In the words of Newt Gingrich: "This is more of feel good government."
Better, the N Y Times today tells us that the end of the screensaver might be the end of the earth itself. Robert L. Park, a mostly far left wing scientist, tells us that Gore's screensaver, known as Triana, the Deep Space Climate Observatory, would have proven man-made global warming. And he says that the Bush administration flushed it to protect polluters. Ah, the little guy against the greedy global industrial complex. But where's Al, "Underdog" Gore? Why isn't he speaking to save his "invention." Truth then and now is that Triana is just another screensaver.
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Better, the N Y Times today tells us that the end of the screensaver might be the end of the earth itself. Robert L. Park, a mostly far left wing scientist, tells us that Gore's screensaver, known as Triana, the Deep Space Climate Observatory, would have proven man-made global warming. And he says that the Bush administration flushed it to protect polluters. Ah, the little guy against the greedy global industrial complex. But where's Al, "Underdog" Gore? Why isn't he speaking to save his "invention." Truth then and now is that Triana is just another screensaver.
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Kabuki Theatre
Energy is Freedom. Unlimited energy is as American as apple pie and Rock & Roll. So what is it about restricting energy use that Democrats feel is American? They say that the USA should never use more than it's fair share of the world's energy. They feel that we consume too much. They want to pass laws to restrict our consumption only to what they say we need. Not a kilowatt more.
Yet consumption is in the eye of the beholder. If that isn't an American value, what is? Who am I to tell you what you need? This is government by Fidel Castro. Go to Havana, as most Democrat senators do. See a need based society for yourself. See how government and it's cronies drive cars while the people walk, ride donkeys, or sometimes get to ride a 1950s style bus. It reminds me of Barbra Streisand running national adds telling us to use less energy. When asked about her consumption, she answered: I need to have my 17 houses and condos refrigerated to 68 degrees because I can't stand to be too warm."
It all goes back to freedoms. Do Americans want to cede their God given freedoms and rights to often unelected government bureaucrats who's political views are mostly way out of the mainstream? The Alito hearings tell us plenty about giving power to the unaccountable. Democrats attack Alito's support for the power of the executive. He feels that the president can and must direct and manage all executive branch agencies. Democrats say that presidents come and go while bureaucrats act independently of elections. This is un-American!
Do we want to give our freedoms to those that look to Cuba and France for leadership? I say not! I say Democrats don't get!!!! We can and should reward those that use less energy in their lives. But it's un-American to punish those that want to use more. Should we provide efficient transportation alternatives? Yes! But not at the expense of road building. Roads are the key to transportation choices and freedoms.
American energy is the key to most of our freedoms. And energy freedoms and choices are what makes America great.
Yet consumption is in the eye of the beholder. If that isn't an American value, what is? Who am I to tell you what you need? This is government by Fidel Castro. Go to Havana, as most Democrat senators do. See a need based society for yourself. See how government and it's cronies drive cars while the people walk, ride donkeys, or sometimes get to ride a 1950s style bus. It reminds me of Barbra Streisand running national adds telling us to use less energy. When asked about her consumption, she answered: I need to have my 17 houses and condos refrigerated to 68 degrees because I can't stand to be too warm."
It all goes back to freedoms. Do Americans want to cede their God given freedoms and rights to often unelected government bureaucrats who's political views are mostly way out of the mainstream? The Alito hearings tell us plenty about giving power to the unaccountable. Democrats attack Alito's support for the power of the executive. He feels that the president can and must direct and manage all executive branch agencies. Democrats say that presidents come and go while bureaucrats act independently of elections. This is un-American!
Do we want to give our freedoms to those that look to Cuba and France for leadership? I say not! I say Democrats don't get!!!! We can and should reward those that use less energy in their lives. But it's un-American to punish those that want to use more. Should we provide efficient transportation alternatives? Yes! But not at the expense of road building. Roads are the key to transportation choices and freedoms.
American energy is the key to most of our freedoms. And energy freedoms and choices are what makes America great.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
What can we learn from Clinton vs Microsoft?
Nearing it's end, the Clinton administration needed to repay unending financial support from tech companies and repay their support during his impeachment. So justice lawyers and Microsoft competitors entered into a widespread conspiracy to find Microsoft an abusive monopoly. They did this by justice meeting secretly with individual officers of Microsoft's competitors. These meeting dealt with developing a strategy to prompt comments from Microsoft's staff that could be used in court proceedings as evidence.
Once enough "evidence" was collected by competitors, justice filed a case against Microsoft. They select a judge known for his hostility to Microsoft. A man who was known to have laughed at Microsoft being characterized as the "Dark Force." Judge Penfield Jackson performed his part of the conspiracy by abusing the bench to find Microsoft guilty of abuse of monopoly power.
The result is where we can gain some insight into the global warming movement. Once labeled an abusive monopolist, any marketing action or improvement or change in Microsoft's Windows platform can be challenged as abusive.
Global warming didn't come into existence until a group of political extremists joined forces in the late 1980s. This was a time when previous "end of the world" theories had been discarded. It was "proven' until then that an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere would cause an ice age. So the new, new coalition of political extremists decided to tack 180 degrees to say that an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere will cause world incineration. This was a breathtaking change of "science."
As with justice and Microsoft's competitors, political extremists met to define global warming and how to make it accepted science. This is necessary so that the platform of global warming like Microsoft's guilt as a abusive monopoly are accepted by the courts of law, science, politics, and public opinion. Once that was achieved, all climate events and weather changes can be connected to global warming without revisiting if it indeed exists.
Today the N Y Times leads with: "Frog Killer Is Linked to Global Warming." J. Alan Pounds says that frogs are dying due to a fungus that is spreading as a result of global warming. He fails to account for: "Temperatures rise and drop cyclically from region to region. So a recent minor temperature increase in the mid-tropics might indicate this or that: "Paradoxically, the fungus thrives best in cooler conditions, challenging the theory that global warming is at fault. But Dr. Pounds and his team, in studying trends in temperature and disease around the American tropics, found patterns that they say explain the situation. "
Not to worry, Pounds and his supporting scientists reach back to the pre-global warming days to tell us that: Because warming increases evaporation, it can create clouds that tend to make days cooler by blocking sunlight, and make nights warmer by trapping heat. In an interview, Dr. Pounds said those conditions could have created favorable conditions for the spread of the chytrid fungus. " Did Pounds study day and night temperatures and their correlating changes to make this "leap of faith?" No! He just went back to the ice age argument that he and others helped to discredit.
All this twisting and churning of so called science is only possible because of the conspiracy to make the irrefutable case that global warming is an unchallengable truth. What's breathtaking in this article for me is that some scientists are actually standing up and pushing back. Cynthia Carey of the University of Colorado risks her career by saying: "that while both climate and amphibian die-offs were serious problems, this particular paper failed to offer anything beyond circumstantial evidence." I'll keep an eye on her career.
Once enough "evidence" was collected by competitors, justice filed a case against Microsoft. They select a judge known for his hostility to Microsoft. A man who was known to have laughed at Microsoft being characterized as the "Dark Force." Judge Penfield Jackson performed his part of the conspiracy by abusing the bench to find Microsoft guilty of abuse of monopoly power.
The result is where we can gain some insight into the global warming movement. Once labeled an abusive monopolist, any marketing action or improvement or change in Microsoft's Windows platform can be challenged as abusive.
Global warming didn't come into existence until a group of political extremists joined forces in the late 1980s. This was a time when previous "end of the world" theories had been discarded. It was "proven' until then that an increase of CO2 in the atmosphere would cause an ice age. So the new, new coalition of political extremists decided to tack 180 degrees to say that an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere will cause world incineration. This was a breathtaking change of "science."
As with justice and Microsoft's competitors, political extremists met to define global warming and how to make it accepted science. This is necessary so that the platform of global warming like Microsoft's guilt as a abusive monopoly are accepted by the courts of law, science, politics, and public opinion. Once that was achieved, all climate events and weather changes can be connected to global warming without revisiting if it indeed exists.
Today the N Y Times leads with: "Frog Killer Is Linked to Global Warming." J. Alan Pounds says that frogs are dying due to a fungus that is spreading as a result of global warming. He fails to account for: "Temperatures rise and drop cyclically from region to region. So a recent minor temperature increase in the mid-tropics might indicate this or that: "Paradoxically, the fungus thrives best in cooler conditions, challenging the theory that global warming is at fault. But Dr. Pounds and his team, in studying trends in temperature and disease around the American tropics, found patterns that they say explain the situation. "
Not to worry, Pounds and his supporting scientists reach back to the pre-global warming days to tell us that: Because warming increases evaporation, it can create clouds that tend to make days cooler by blocking sunlight, and make nights warmer by trapping heat. In an interview, Dr. Pounds said those conditions could have created favorable conditions for the spread of the chytrid fungus. " Did Pounds study day and night temperatures and their correlating changes to make this "leap of faith?" No! He just went back to the ice age argument that he and others helped to discredit.
All this twisting and churning of so called science is only possible because of the conspiracy to make the irrefutable case that global warming is an unchallengable truth. What's breathtaking in this article for me is that some scientists are actually standing up and pushing back. Cynthia Carey of the University of Colorado risks her career by saying: "that while both climate and amphibian die-offs were serious problems, this particular paper failed to offer anything beyond circumstantial evidence." I'll keep an eye on her career.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Emanuel finds religion, Global Warming religion!
For decades one of climate scientist's major global warming holdouts was MIT's Kerry Emanuel. "Professor Emanuel asserted often that no firm link had been established between warming and the intensity and frequency of hurricanes," says the Times. But now he's found the religion.
A NY Times article tells us that: "On a recent visit to New York, Professor Emanuel, who is 50, said, "It's been quite a ride since the Nature article." He added, "But it's a really bad thing for a scientist to have an immovable, intractable position." Imagine that he is now embraced by eco-terrorists and secular socialists and communists worldwide. Whatever made him wait? Like the salmon swimming upstream, Emanuel found that opposing muggers and abusers wears one down. And it costs in grants and income.
So what's the science he used to connect the dots? It's: "There is no doubt that in the last 20 years, the earth has been warming up. And it's warming up much too fast to ascribe to any natural process we know about." In other words, he feels that since he hasn't found a reason for warming among the billion variables that contribute to weather and climate, it must be man. Sounds religious to me.
Fact is this religion is all about intelligent design. The design is man and the intelligence is that a few persons feel they know because they do. No real science! No connecting dots. Just what seems like warming and feels like it's unnatural must be what they say it is. Breathtaking. I'll hold my breath for some real science.
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A NY Times article tells us that: "On a recent visit to New York, Professor Emanuel, who is 50, said, "It's been quite a ride since the Nature article." He added, "But it's a really bad thing for a scientist to have an immovable, intractable position." Imagine that he is now embraced by eco-terrorists and secular socialists and communists worldwide. Whatever made him wait? Like the salmon swimming upstream, Emanuel found that opposing muggers and abusers wears one down. And it costs in grants and income.
So what's the science he used to connect the dots? It's: "There is no doubt that in the last 20 years, the earth has been warming up. And it's warming up much too fast to ascribe to any natural process we know about." In other words, he feels that since he hasn't found a reason for warming among the billion variables that contribute to weather and climate, it must be man. Sounds religious to me.
Fact is this religion is all about intelligent design. The design is man and the intelligence is that a few persons feel they know because they do. No real science! No connecting dots. Just what seems like warming and feels like it's unnatural must be what they say it is. Breathtaking. I'll hold my breath for some real science.
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Monday, January 09, 2006
Is it the Environment after all?
Southern California Edison is America's number one renewable energy creating utility. Edison's manager divert millions annually to devise plans to create power using renewable sources. They invest in solar collection systems, they generate 45% of their renewable energy through biomass projects that benefit farmers, and now have over $3 billion in efficiency projects underway.
Along comes the Sierra Club and other Eco-extremists that say that it's all wrong. Say what? They are lining up to stop solar energy farms as large as 3 square miles and want to curtail windmill farms. Why? They are "unsightful" and they "hurt birds and other plants and animals like ants and desert bugs. " What's going on here?
The eco-crowd has stopped most fossil fuel exploration within the United States. They oppose almost every effort to tap new fossil fuel sources saying that it causes global warming. The same enviro-advocates oppose increased import of fossil fuels, especially natural gas from Canada. So what do they want? They want America to slow it's economy so that workers only buy what left wing elitists say they need. Of course these limo-elitists say THEY need limos and dozens of homes and vacation sites.
When did loving and respecting the planet become an abusive political movement? I say it was when secular socialism died. When the Soviet Union imploded and when Judea-Christian principles for self determination and personal responsibility swept the world. It was when the people learned that they can take care of themselves better than disinterested third party bureaucrats.
Along comes the Sierra Club and other Eco-extremists that say that it's all wrong. Say what? They are lining up to stop solar energy farms as large as 3 square miles and want to curtail windmill farms. Why? They are "unsightful" and they "hurt birds and other plants and animals like ants and desert bugs. " What's going on here?
The eco-crowd has stopped most fossil fuel exploration within the United States. They oppose almost every effort to tap new fossil fuel sources saying that it causes global warming. The same enviro-advocates oppose increased import of fossil fuels, especially natural gas from Canada. So what do they want? They want America to slow it's economy so that workers only buy what left wing elitists say they need. Of course these limo-elitists say THEY need limos and dozens of homes and vacation sites.
When did loving and respecting the planet become an abusive political movement? I say it was when secular socialism died. When the Soviet Union imploded and when Judea-Christian principles for self determination and personal responsibility swept the world. It was when the people learned that they can take care of themselves better than disinterested third party bureaucrats.
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Today's Dribble
The Seattle Post Intelligencer encourages Washington Democrats to work toward bio-diesel use to offset fossil fuels. The "other" Seattle print media outlet, The Seattle Times, prints an opinion piece about bio-diesel that provides some background information of which Democrats and the PI seem unaware. As usual, facts seldom stand in the way of "progressive" feelings.
Word from the other Washington is that Senator Ted Stevens, (R) Alaska, is reorganizing his effort to open ANWR to drilling. Insiders say that he is exploring how imported exposes the United States to international extortion and to unpredictable and unmanageable economic events. National defense and anti-terror protections resonate with the people, especially moderate mothers. Washington's junior Senator, Maria Cantwell, (D) may yet learn a lesson from Stevens.
Word from the other Washington is that Senator Ted Stevens, (R) Alaska, is reorganizing his effort to open ANWR to drilling. Insiders say that he is exploring how imported exposes the United States to international extortion and to unpredictable and unmanageable economic events. National defense and anti-terror protections resonate with the people, especially moderate mothers. Washington's junior Senator, Maria Cantwell, (D) may yet learn a lesson from Stevens.
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
The Senator from La La Land
Seattle is buzzing with chit chat of the new giant slayer, Maria Cantwell, junior Senator of Washington. It's said that she feels she is the new "Scoop" Jackson of international relations fame. Little Maria took on Senator Steven of Alaska, one of the DC beltway's most powerful voices for energy and commerce. And she got a delay.
It's now been over two and a half decades since early fossil fuel explorations proved that billions upon billions of oil barrels and untold cubic feet of natural gas are languishing under the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. We all know that economic activity in Alaska is confined to resource extraction and management. That's the fishery in the Gulf of Alaska, timber, minerals, and of course fossil fuels.
This find became public as the Alaskan pipeline came on line and the prospect of additional fossil fuel extraction swept a mostly poor state. Senator Stevens stepped forward to expedite further exploration so that the size of the find could be assessed. Not to happen. Enviro- extremists organized to stop any further fossil fuel drilling and extraction from Alaska by pressuring a strong majority Democrat House and Senate to take ANWR off America's drilling inventory. That was 25 years ago.
Segway to today's Congress where Republicans now rule. You'd think that conservatives might consider that they are being attacked by Democrats for energy prices. That's energy prices that are high because of Democrat resistance to fossil fuel exploration and extraction. That the Democrats that stop all refinery capacity enlargement. That's the Democrats that tax fuel more than any other product other than tobacco. That's the Democrats that lie and cheat about who's responsible for all of our energy shortages.
The House and senate have approved ANWR drilling straight up. Cantwell and her "friends" are using every method to subvert the will of the people. She might have stepped on the wrong man's toes. Cantwell after all lives in a glass house. She was elected in a Seattle "miraculous" recount, the practice for the governor's recount of 2004 where thousands of votes appeared to overturn early leads by the Republican.
More interesting was that Cantwell ran on a "no money from special interet groups" campaign pledge. So she borrowed a few million during the campaign. Then when she was elected, she used Hillary Clinton and Senator Edwards to raise money from special interests which they delivered to her to get around campaign laws. Since the dough was collected by others, she claimed she needn't disclose her contributors.
Then Maria led a group of "intellectual" women on a visit to Cuba. The recounts of their clam bakes and mutual respect cooing were not found in Seattle's papers, but in the New York Times. It's there that she was quoted saying: "That Fidel is a Merlot man, as opposed to Seattle's Chardonnay drinking progressive men." Never mind that Fidel is one of the world's most prolific mass murderers. He is after all progressive, whatever that means.
I suspect that Stevens will remember how precarious Maria's house of cards truly might be. Keep posted.
It's now been over two and a half decades since early fossil fuel explorations proved that billions upon billions of oil barrels and untold cubic feet of natural gas are languishing under the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. We all know that economic activity in Alaska is confined to resource extraction and management. That's the fishery in the Gulf of Alaska, timber, minerals, and of course fossil fuels.
This find became public as the Alaskan pipeline came on line and the prospect of additional fossil fuel extraction swept a mostly poor state. Senator Stevens stepped forward to expedite further exploration so that the size of the find could be assessed. Not to happen. Enviro- extremists organized to stop any further fossil fuel drilling and extraction from Alaska by pressuring a strong majority Democrat House and Senate to take ANWR off America's drilling inventory. That was 25 years ago.
Segway to today's Congress where Republicans now rule. You'd think that conservatives might consider that they are being attacked by Democrats for energy prices. That's energy prices that are high because of Democrat resistance to fossil fuel exploration and extraction. That the Democrats that stop all refinery capacity enlargement. That's the Democrats that tax fuel more than any other product other than tobacco. That's the Democrats that lie and cheat about who's responsible for all of our energy shortages.
The House and senate have approved ANWR drilling straight up. Cantwell and her "friends" are using every method to subvert the will of the people. She might have stepped on the wrong man's toes. Cantwell after all lives in a glass house. She was elected in a Seattle "miraculous" recount, the practice for the governor's recount of 2004 where thousands of votes appeared to overturn early leads by the Republican.
More interesting was that Cantwell ran on a "no money from special interet groups" campaign pledge. So she borrowed a few million during the campaign. Then when she was elected, she used Hillary Clinton and Senator Edwards to raise money from special interests which they delivered to her to get around campaign laws. Since the dough was collected by others, she claimed she needn't disclose her contributors.
Then Maria led a group of "intellectual" women on a visit to Cuba. The recounts of their clam bakes and mutual respect cooing were not found in Seattle's papers, but in the New York Times. It's there that she was quoted saying: "That Fidel is a Merlot man, as opposed to Seattle's Chardonnay drinking progressive men." Never mind that Fidel is one of the world's most prolific mass murderers. He is after all progressive, whatever that means.
I suspect that Stevens will remember how precarious Maria's house of cards truly might be. Keep posted.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
The Socialists Flex their Muscles!
We see today that the Senate refused to stop "debate" by a total of 56 to 44 for the drilling of ANWR. 56 Republican senators want to pass the appropriations bill while 44 Democrats refuse to go forward. What does this mean? It means that a few Republicans are siding with Democrats to oppose drilling in ANWR. Why? Because they want to stop US drilling and production.
President Bush will be credited by honest historians for many changes in America. In fact, he is probably the most PROGRESSIVE president in our history. One of his projects is to stop enviro-eco-extremists stopping exploration and development of fossil fuels. He's also demanding real science to support his political opponent's proposed legislation.
Science is no longer a part of left wing abuses. Today a federal court judge in Pennsylvania said that evolution is the strongest pillar of today's science. Say What? Evolution, a loosely organized political and anti-God concept proves nothing. Yet an ignorant and stupid judge says otherwise. Why? Because he feels it. Because he thinks that he is somebody that feels that evolution is proven. Not even a respected extremist left wing scientist says that evolution is proven. Name one!!!!
I love this time in America's political development. We see that real political concepts and scientific sentiments are now driving our policies. Yes, a number of idiot mayors went to Montreal to say they support the UN and other socialist countries in their effort to destroy America. These guys are stupid as stupid does. They are liars and abusers. And they now demand power outside of the electoral process.
Imagine that our constitution and the vote of our people are considered irrelevant by left wing extremists!! It's time that we demand the truth or we run them out of town.
President Bush will be credited by honest historians for many changes in America. In fact, he is probably the most PROGRESSIVE president in our history. One of his projects is to stop enviro-eco-extremists stopping exploration and development of fossil fuels. He's also demanding real science to support his political opponent's proposed legislation.
Science is no longer a part of left wing abuses. Today a federal court judge in Pennsylvania said that evolution is the strongest pillar of today's science. Say What? Evolution, a loosely organized political and anti-God concept proves nothing. Yet an ignorant and stupid judge says otherwise. Why? Because he feels it. Because he thinks that he is somebody that feels that evolution is proven. Not even a respected extremist left wing scientist says that evolution is proven. Name one!!!!
I love this time in America's political development. We see that real political concepts and scientific sentiments are now driving our policies. Yes, a number of idiot mayors went to Montreal to say they support the UN and other socialist countries in their effort to destroy America. These guys are stupid as stupid does. They are liars and abusers. And they now demand power outside of the electoral process.
Imagine that our constitution and the vote of our people are considered irrelevant by left wing extremists!! It's time that we demand the truth or we run them out of town.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
ANWR is back
With Democrats betting the farm on the Vietraq war and Republicans finding their roots, ANWR is back on the negotiating table. Only this time, the facts are prevailing. The oil under ANWR is needed to lessen America's reliance on foreign fossil fuels. In fact, Senator Stevens of Alaska is now winning after over 25 years of Democrat stalling. The Senate and the House have approved drilling in ANWR, so the people have spoken.
The facts are that ANWR probably has much more than 11 billion barrels of very clean sweet crude. Some believe that nearly 20 billion barrels will be extracted before it's all said and done. The enviro and eco crowd has demanded and received the earth's most extensive Environmental Impact Statements that indicate that no environmental harm or permanent damage is expected. And we know that today's three dimentional drilling capabilities reduce the number of wells required to exploit a field and also dramatically reduce the "footprint" of drilling platforms and support services.
ANWR is one of the many religious icons of blind faith secular socialist religion. This is the same crowd that attempted to stop oil drilling in the 1970s and the Alaskan pipeline. None of the "scientific" evidence presented then proved reliable. In fact all was wrong. Today we hear the same babble. Bottom line is that eco extremists want to end US fossil fuel exploration and use. And they want to take the people's land away so that it's their own playground.
For those looking to relate ANWR drilling to reality, look at it as a football field. If ANWR is 100 yards long, the drilling will take place on a piece that is smaller than a postage stamp. I think it's time that some of our extremists get a grip and a life.
The facts are that ANWR probably has much more than 11 billion barrels of very clean sweet crude. Some believe that nearly 20 billion barrels will be extracted before it's all said and done. The enviro and eco crowd has demanded and received the earth's most extensive Environmental Impact Statements that indicate that no environmental harm or permanent damage is expected. And we know that today's three dimentional drilling capabilities reduce the number of wells required to exploit a field and also dramatically reduce the "footprint" of drilling platforms and support services.
ANWR is one of the many religious icons of blind faith secular socialist religion. This is the same crowd that attempted to stop oil drilling in the 1970s and the Alaskan pipeline. None of the "scientific" evidence presented then proved reliable. In fact all was wrong. Today we hear the same babble. Bottom line is that eco extremists want to end US fossil fuel exploration and use. And they want to take the people's land away so that it's their own playground.
For those looking to relate ANWR drilling to reality, look at it as a football field. If ANWR is 100 yards long, the drilling will take place on a piece that is smaller than a postage stamp. I think it's time that some of our extremists get a grip and a life.
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Kyontreal and more!
Montreal broke the record book for cost and lavishness to attract only those that cry "Global Warming." It seems necessary to ply "scientists" with wine, lots of women, and song to convince them to follow the eco-siren's song of immediate planet death. Montreal reminds me of my last fraternity poker game. "I raise you two hurricanes to your Greenland icecap melt" says somebody. Then we hear "I'll raise that with two tornadoes and four glaciers receding." And an environmentalist in a pear tree.
With all this handholding on asset redistribution, kwanzaa is becoming mainstream. As with past global secular socialist parties, the Bush administration is taking the punch away. Waaaaaaa! Talk about rude. The American delegation walked out on the 10th straight hour of Bush and USA bashing at midnight in Montreal. Waaaaaa! Many countries like Venezuela and Cuba were just getting warmed up. There were still 8 hours of darkness left so economic and social vampires had plenty of time to suck our blood.
What's heartwarming is that Australia and China are joining Bush and now Japan in crafting their own environmental policies. These nations laugh at redistributing US wealth to all other nations. This group asks about Europe and Africa doing some work for a change? The Old Europe feels that everybody owes them an entitlement to live the life. So Global Warming and the internet are their ticket to future prosperity. Problem is that Bush is pushing back after decades of easy going for the rest of the world.
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With all this handholding on asset redistribution, kwanzaa is becoming mainstream. As with past global secular socialist parties, the Bush administration is taking the punch away. Waaaaaaa! Talk about rude. The American delegation walked out on the 10th straight hour of Bush and USA bashing at midnight in Montreal. Waaaaaa! Many countries like Venezuela and Cuba were just getting warmed up. There were still 8 hours of darkness left so economic and social vampires had plenty of time to suck our blood.
What's heartwarming is that Australia and China are joining Bush and now Japan in crafting their own environmental policies. These nations laugh at redistributing US wealth to all other nations. This group asks about Europe and Africa doing some work for a change? The Old Europe feels that everybody owes them an entitlement to live the life. So Global Warming and the internet are their ticket to future prosperity. Problem is that Bush is pushing back after decades of easy going for the rest of the world.
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Friday, December 02, 2005
Gulfstream slows, somebody says
Word from the European Community is that the Gulfstream is slowing by 30% over recent time. Whoa Nellie! Worse is that this means the British Isles and Northern Europe will cool precipitously. Some say as much as 6 degrees C over the next decade or so. That's Ice Age temps. What's causing all this? Global Warming of course. The Journal Nature is quoted in the Guardian, one of Europe's premier left wing news outlets.
The basis for this dot-connection-science is that Global Warming is melting the Polar ice cap and Greenland's ice which is changing the Atlantic's salinity which reducing it's weight which keeps it from sinking into the abyss which reduces the circulatory speed of the Gulfstream. That means the volume of warm water streaming north is reduced which means the UK and Northern Europe are cooling. Whew, that's a mouth full. And it's a long stretch to connect each of these rather Global Warming accommodating dots.
What do climate scientists say about this most dramatic development? Don't know? It's the politicians speaking as usual. The same politicians that "feel" we are over consuming and which fear property ownership and personal empowerment. Yes, those secular socialist political scientists!
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The basis for this dot-connection-science is that Global Warming is melting the Polar ice cap and Greenland's ice which is changing the Atlantic's salinity which reducing it's weight which keeps it from sinking into the abyss which reduces the circulatory speed of the Gulfstream. That means the volume of warm water streaming north is reduced which means the UK and Northern Europe are cooling. Whew, that's a mouth full. And it's a long stretch to connect each of these rather Global Warming accommodating dots.
What do climate scientists say about this most dramatic development? Don't know? It's the politicians speaking as usual. The same politicians that "feel" we are over consuming and which fear property ownership and personal empowerment. Yes, those secular socialist political scientists!
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Montreal's Climate is Cooling
The Eco-shindig du jour is happening in Montreal this week. It's said that salmon and Orca are the protein of choice to woo the attendants to sign up for Kyoto Plus! Problem was, and still is, that the 500 pound gorilla (USA for those living in secular socialism) isn't peeling this stale banana. In fact, little is sweet about a crowd of politically charged world ruler wanna bes. The French and even the Russians look at the USA and they drool with desire to control it, if not destroy it.
The Bush administration rolls out statistic after statistic that proves that the USA is cutting all forms of emissions and is using less energy per GDP dollar every year. So as our economy screams into the outer solar system, our fuel consumption and resulting emissions are even or reducing. And better is the fact that economic competition drives improvements in energy use every year. That's without draconian laws and choking regulations. Not that the USA has a shortage of either abusive laws or worthless regulations.
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The Bush administration rolls out statistic after statistic that proves that the USA is cutting all forms of emissions and is using less energy per GDP dollar every year. So as our economy screams into the outer solar system, our fuel consumption and resulting emissions are even or reducing. And better is the fact that economic competition drives improvements in energy use every year. That's without draconian laws and choking regulations. Not that the USA has a shortage of either abusive laws or worthless regulations.
Yet the answer from the Montreal calm-bakers and their secular socialist media is that these statistics don't matter. Even if they did, we can do much better. The Washington Post tells us just that with a "disturbing" editorial today.
Let's get this straight. Our economy increases, which lifts all the world's standard of living. We do this without increasing energy usage and by producing less pollution. We provide the vast majority of all of the world's research and development. 9 out of 10 jobs worldwide depend on us. And the poor and needy rely mostly on us. Yet we are the problem. The American consumer is the problem. I'd like to get a few of the drugs the Montreal conventioneers are using.
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Monday, November 07, 2005
Bush kills Bambi again.
These are troubled times for the eco-political crowd. Today's Seattle Post intelligencer tells us that former Clinton Secretary of the Interior Bruce "Fidel" Babbitt is pushing his new book: "Cities in the Wilderness." His take on recent reviews of failing environmental laws is that all is not lost. Yes, the Endangered Species Act will be modified (watered down, no pun intended) and the National Environmental Protection Act will also be changed to be more human/animal/vegetable neutral. But don't fret, eco-terrorists, Babbitt sees lots of silver on those storm clouds.
He says that a few hundred mayors are pushing for global warming legislation. Babbitt feels that this is proof that the "people" favor more, not fewer restrictions on land use and transportation choices. For others, a few hundred miserably failing mayors really bring nothing to the debate. These are the guys who sit while schools fail more than half their students. These are the guys that can't fill potholes, much less understand climate science.
Speaking of climate science, today's N Y Times writes in an editorial that more pressure is on the horizon to force President Bush to control and limit carbon dioxide. The NY Times editorial goes as far as to cite a recent multi-day article that tells us we have "already lost the North Pole." What will Santa do? He'll have to move to Tahiti, where rumors of icebergs and forming glaciers are spreading. Or was it flooding? I can't remember which "Best Available Science" story is now mainstream "settled science."
Worse is that the same "scientists" say that Greenland's multi-mile deep ice cap is soon to be lost too. I've read a few of these "studies" which say that melting near shore is increasing. They feel that's the case due to measured glacial water off flow at one site in Easter Greenland. Yet those pesky satellites tell us otherwise. They say that the cap is actually growing faster than melting. In fact, today's cap is the deepest every measured. We can all debate why more water is flowing off Greenland at one location, but connecting that single dot to global warming is not very scientific.
Yet, Greenland and the Arctic are two of the handfull of "proven scientific bricks" in the global warming foundation. Settled science follows the media repeating feelings and opinions until the people believe it to be the truth. I think it's a propaganda principle to repeat a half or totally untruth several times until those listening begin to accept it as fact. Global warming, global warming, global warming! Why don't I get it?
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He says that a few hundred mayors are pushing for global warming legislation. Babbitt feels that this is proof that the "people" favor more, not fewer restrictions on land use and transportation choices. For others, a few hundred miserably failing mayors really bring nothing to the debate. These are the guys who sit while schools fail more than half their students. These are the guys that can't fill potholes, much less understand climate science.
Speaking of climate science, today's N Y Times writes in an editorial that more pressure is on the horizon to force President Bush to control and limit carbon dioxide. The NY Times editorial goes as far as to cite a recent multi-day article that tells us we have "already lost the North Pole." What will Santa do? He'll have to move to Tahiti, where rumors of icebergs and forming glaciers are spreading. Or was it flooding? I can't remember which "Best Available Science" story is now mainstream "settled science."
Worse is that the same "scientists" say that Greenland's multi-mile deep ice cap is soon to be lost too. I've read a few of these "studies" which say that melting near shore is increasing. They feel that's the case due to measured glacial water off flow at one site in Easter Greenland. Yet those pesky satellites tell us otherwise. They say that the cap is actually growing faster than melting. In fact, today's cap is the deepest every measured. We can all debate why more water is flowing off Greenland at one location, but connecting that single dot to global warming is not very scientific.
Yet, Greenland and the Arctic are two of the handfull of "proven scientific bricks" in the global warming foundation. Settled science follows the media repeating feelings and opinions until the people believe it to be the truth. I think it's a propaganda principle to repeat a half or totally untruth several times until those listening begin to accept it as fact. Global warming, global warming, global warming! Why don't I get it?
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Wednesday, October 05, 2005
What Ever Happened to Blaming Canada?
It wasn't too long ago that we could look at our nation's faults only to blame Canada for these issues and challenges. In fact, South Park characters' film earned profits by telling us to: "Blame Canada." So why can't we blame climate change on Canada?
Today's Washington Post features an article about insurance companies climbing into bed with global warming adherents by blaming it for their recent loses. There's a drought in Nebraska. Blame global warming. A thunderstorm moves across Oklahoma. Global warming for sure. The river floods in Mississippi. Global warming without fail. Hurricanes? Global warming from here to there. Wow! I ran out of gas. Must have been global warming. Late for a date? Global warming. Credit card company called due to a late payment. Global warming, thank you.
Truth seems to be insurers have been planning to off-load high risk insured in high risk coastal and earthquake areas on the feds for some time. Problem is that construction is exploding on the Southeastern coast just because land is cheap while insurance and implied government make-whole guarantees are plentiful. Today's storms are not any more plentiful nor are they stronger according to the National Hurricane Center. Storms just impact much more poplulated areas that cost more and more to rebuild.
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Today's Washington Post features an article about insurance companies climbing into bed with global warming adherents by blaming it for their recent loses. There's a drought in Nebraska. Blame global warming. A thunderstorm moves across Oklahoma. Global warming for sure. The river floods in Mississippi. Global warming without fail. Hurricanes? Global warming from here to there. Wow! I ran out of gas. Must have been global warming. Late for a date? Global warming. Credit card company called due to a late payment. Global warming, thank you.
Truth seems to be insurers have been planning to off-load high risk insured in high risk coastal and earthquake areas on the feds for some time. Problem is that construction is exploding on the Southeastern coast just because land is cheap while insurance and implied government make-whole guarantees are plentiful. Today's storms are not any more plentiful nor are they stronger according to the National Hurricane Center. Storms just impact much more poplulated areas that cost more and more to rebuild.
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Monday, September 12, 2005
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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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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Thursday, September 08, 2005
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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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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