Killing Energy Independence

KING TUT TUT FINALLY KEEPS A PROMISE

 

Many of the fans of the Boy Pharaoh, King Tut Tut and others of us less addicted to tyranny have been waiting for him to keep at least one promise. At last we have caught him telling the truth. Before he was elected, he promised that he would bankrupt the coal industry. This week, he delivered on his promise. It was announced that the largest coal mine in West Virginia was to have its permit(yes, in our evolving world, you need a permit for just about everything) terminated. Not, not renewed, terminated in mid-term.

His footprint is just as effective but less visible in nuclear energy. There hasn’t been a nuclear plant project authorized, since before he was an urchin running through the streets in Indonesia. He is working on how to end the trickle of domestic oil, but have confidence. He’ll find a way.

The underside of that bus is getting pretty crowded. West Virginia is so blue that a Republican or Independent needs a visa to get in the state. No matter. Several thousand of his voters will be quickly be on the unemployed rolls. And he is just getting warmed up.

Almost half of our electric is generated in coal-fired plants. He even told us in advance that our electric bills would skyrocket. But why worry. It’s part of the price of fundamentally changing our form of government. Just smile on your way to the soup kitchen.

What goes under the radar of our Oba media is that the US has so much coal that it is one of our major exports right behind apologies for our form of government by King Tut Tut. In an economic disaster, a further hit to a negative balance of trade will hardly be noticed. But the boy pharaoh tells us it’ll all be better when we get used to the full socialist state.

If you are wondering what will replace coal, oil and nuclear energy, so is everyone else. But we can rely on socialist ingenuity to find carbon free energy in abundance sometime soon. In the meantime, wear heavier clothes and you can read during daylight hours, unless he bans it. Reading or sunlight.

Unspoken here is another side to the green revolution. A little more of the Constitution dies. What property rights were left alive by the New Haven case take another substantial hit in the new socialist world of Obama. On the basis of a permit such as the coal mining, thousands of investors and more thousands of workers spent hundreds of man years to develop the potential for energy locked in the ground. Those assets are now summarily destroyed by a fiat from big O. Even if the company, or individual investors should try to defend their rights in the Courts, it would take years, during which the damage to the economy, owners rights and energy users deprivation would be permanent and irreparable.

We have to remind ourselves that this is on the basis of questionable science and improbable foreign policy. Even on the off-chance that the nut case climate change people had a grain of reason to claim that carbon is evil, the rest of the planet has no intention of denying themselves immediately available energy from coal and oil. Should we commit economic suicide by pursuing a policy which would have no appreciable effect on the global ecology.

Or is that the intent of this nonsense in the first place.

 

 

Climate Change- A Parody

NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE

My name is Dr. Ernest Stulte. I write to warn you of an impending calamity. Only prompt and concerted action by the entire earth can save us.

I am a georotationologist. I study the rotation of the earth on its axis. The earth rotates one full rotation every 86,424 minitouts. The scientifically superficial(most of you) think the earth rotates once in 86,400 seconds.

You will notice that my computer model-her name is Magda-shows an additional 24 minitouts. Last week , I discovered that the earth’s rotation had accelerated. It was now rotating at 86,423 m/ts. If left uncorrected, the rate of rotation of the earth will speed up enough to throw everyone and everything off the planet.

On the basis of my discovery and its possible implications, I have formed a committee the concerned georotationologists and other important celebrities on global spinup, the CGAOICOGS. We urge world governments to save the earth by erecting a wall on a polar axis around the entire earth. The wall must be 11 feet one inch high and one foot one inch thick.

This should get back the lost minitout. Let me warn you not to listen to those nutty boobs who claim that the earth is slowing down and their crazy idea that we need to dig a trench around the world. Their computer model-Olga- is untrustworthy and was made in China and also several other places, I am told, but I do not deal in scandal.

For those of you who are interested, I have several amulets, scarabs and incantations at very competitive prices.

 

Questions and Shadows

Take a Long Look at the Unknown Man

We have as president a man who is completely unknown to the vast majority of those over whom he presides. The number of critical facts about him unknown to both those who voted for him and those who voted against him is literally staggering.

Some facts about a man are private and no one can claim the right to know them. When one is considering such a person for a position critical to the survival of the nation and perhaps even of the civilized world, his right to privacy is considerably narrowed.

When such a man’s entire life prior to 2000 is shrouded in the shadow of the unknown and unexamined, the life of the nation is dependent on who he is and what meaning he ascribes to “change” and “hope.”

Where did he come from?

The very beginning of his life is shrouded in the uncertainty and ambiguity which have become his signature characteristics.

Was he born in Kenya or Hawaii? The question which asked of any other President would be trivia, with Obama it has substantial impact. There may be cranks who fixate on getting an answer. Their monomania does not diminish the importance of the issue.

As in so many other areas in his later life, Obama does not resolve the issue, but exacerbates it. There is an official document which ends the question. It is sequestered by the Governor of Hawaii at Obama’s request.

At first, those who focused on the issue were reviled by the Obama partisans as kooks, bent people disconnected with the real world. Even those who dislike and/or oppose Obama ultimately brush aside these objectors as unsettled and irrelevant.

And thus, the first shadow sets a pattern. 1) A question about Obama arises. 2) The answer is within Obama’s control. 3) He does nothing, generally not even acknowledging that a question has been raised. 4) Big O’s partisans attack the questioner’s intelligence, character, sanity. 5) The question is pushed into the crank category, and 6) The question is never answered.

Later Big O’s mother marries an Indonesian named Soetoro and Obama goes with them to Indonesia as a small boy. And a second shadow appears in the life of the King of Transparency. His primary school record in Indonesia shows him under a new name, Barry Soetoro, and states that he is a Muslim. The school is a Roman Catholic elementary school. Was he adopted by Soetoro? Was he by operation of local law or by affirmative action of his step-father now a citizen of Indonesia? He later travels to nations in Southeast Asia. These nations were hostile to the United States and did not accept US passports. Did he travel illegally? On an Indonesian passport? All these questions raised, all are treated in the pattern established in the first question. Why change a successful strategy?

So clearly the number of crazies, extremists, right-wing conspirators grows exponentially as Big O grows and new shadows appear.

He goes to college. His records at Columbia might be illuminating. His application, his grades, any theses he might have written. But again, these snapshots of the developing mind of Big O are denied us. At his specific orders. Again the pattern perfected about his birth. Again those who seek answers are conspiracy freaks to be marginalized. And so they are and so more shadows remain unilluminated.

So onto to Harvard Law. And again doors are slammed and again the shadows lengthen.

Our ignorance of Big O’s life massively out distances what we know. How did a boy from a family of limited means, get into big tuition schools like Columbia and Harvard Law?

If on scholarship, one would expect a bit of crowing. Doubly so since his qualifications and experience in anything are thin to evanescent. And in executive experience totally lacking.

If not on scholarship, was he sponsored? By whom? It can’t be that the sponsor was reprehensible.

Both before and after his ascension to the presidency his associates and appointees have shared characteristics- revolutionary, criminal, the financially shady and the culturally corrupt. Why would the identity of a sponsor create a problem against the background of the depraved group around him?

The entire pattern of his pre-public life raises a larger and deeper shadow. His early years are spent as a foreigner to America on a cultural level whatever the legalities. He lived as a Muslim in a Muslim country.

The record of how he grew from teens to State Senator in Illinois are aggressively denied us by the man himself. His development years in higher education are treated by his hostility to disclosure, as though they held some shameful secret.

Yet his campaign for national office was almost exclusively a form of personality cult. An “I am the One” campaign coupled with a refusal to reveal who the I is, can fairly be described as self-contradictory. Yet he won.

After only 5 years of public life, he still has no public life. Is he a socialist, a communist, a Muslim? Challenge his actions , you discover that he is mainly black and you are totally a racist.

Ultimately, we have a President whose whole political position is image, whose program may be deduced only from references to change. After a year in office, is it not legitimate finally to ask who is Obama or who is the President?

The answers may not be the same.

 

The United States Constitution

Memories of a great idea

It is hard to write the obituary of a friend. It is especially hard when that friend was a teacher who taught me the rules of how people deal with each other in the social order. But the Constitution is dead. It was healthy for about 130 years; took a little beating after the Civil War but was basically healthy until 1916 when the principal of involuntary servitude was reintroduced by the 16^th Amendment. That one lets the government take the earnings of inhabitants on the basis of the needs or wants of the government. My friend had ingested a disease fatal in itself, but which also allowed the introduction of other terminal disorders.

In the early thirties, relying heavily on socialist models, a new form of government began to conflict with my old friend. Social Security, impossible without the 16^th Amendment, put dependence on government into the arena against the national characteristic of self-reliance. Then the attack on private property began. His friends still did not understand that he was under attack. In a little noted case in the Midwest a farmer named Filborn *raised wheat on his own farm for his own use. But the US government took him to court where we all found out that you couldn’t use your own property if the government had decreed that there was a better way to use it. The understanding of the constitution for over 150 years was gone

In a twinkling, state government was damaged and private property rights began their slide into the socialist maw which culminated recently in a determination by a bunch of lawyers called the Supreme Court that if the government wanted your property because they had a better use for it, you were out.(Kelo v New London)**

Under the new socialism of Obama, the usurpation of property has gone from real to personal property. He takes whole industries and wipes out the personal property of stockholder, bond holders and creditors. Were my friend not dead, that usurpation would have started a major fight.

My friend was dead, but the Socialists still needed to prop up his corpse to put down revolutions kindled by regret that we had let our friend die. Just such a revolution is brewing with the socialists racing to finish the jail house before the working stiffs get the work parties together to tear it down.

But my friend is dead. We may get back some semblance of a charter for liberty but the odds are against us. With the Supreme Court in charge of “interpreting” any new charter, the chances for an enduring freedom are slender. The lawyers have too large a stake in chaos for an orderly free society to be built on the ruins of this one. We have had our shot and we blew it.

If you have any doubts about his death, the first Amendment announces that freedom of Speech and Religion are immune from restriction by the government. Can you remember the last time our Supreme Court defended Christianity against its foes. How about free speech. This body of lawyers found that McCain-Feingold the law that limits free speech about candidates during elections, is constitutional. The Constitution says Congress shall make no law affecting freedom of speech. To whom do you appeal when the Court has become an engine of social change.

Who says that the Supreme Court is the arbiter of the meaning of the Constitution. Three guesses. You are correct. They did. Way back in Marbury v. Madison,*** they said they were the sole judge of the meaning of the document. And nobody said no. So the idea of three separate and equal branches of government died in 1803 but you still hear about it. It isn’t true but our political class includes it among its standard basket of lies.

So there is scant hope of help from our dead friend in our fight to save something from the second socialist Presidency. The difference between him and his successor is very clear. The original untampered document speaks of what the government can’t do to you. The substitute pushes what the government must do for you. Whatever the price of liberty is, we didn’t or wouldn’t pay it.

So, as free men, we may soon find ourselves among the obituaries, like our friend and onetime protector.

* Wickard v. Filborn 317 U.S. 111 (1942)

** Kelo v. New London 545 U.S. 469 (2005)

*** Marbury v. Madison 5 U.S. 137 (1803)

 

Hail Augustus Obama

Shame on Judas

I went to a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Synod and a NOW meeting broke out. The NCCB sold out to Obama on  his health care dodge to save their federal money.

They agreed that the new plan would pay for abortions only in the case where pregnancy resulted from rape, incest or sexual intercourse. They did it knowing that their cupidity  would give enough cover to nominal Catholic Democratic congressman to finalize Obama’s drive for total power. Even with the craven collapse of the bishops, the  boy pharaoh won by only three votes.

The king bought the AMA cheap. Only 20% of the practising physicians in the country belong to the AMA. The rest of the doctors opposed the power grab. But the AMA got the headlines.

AARP had sold out over a month before, despite a majority of older voters opposing the monstrosity called health care.

But the final blow was the wink from the Catholic bishops, oking  federally funded abortion. Until now they had just spread enough confusion that nominally Catholic democratic politicians could connive in the murder of millions of preborn babies.  Without the theological threat of excommunication and its political consequences.

This time  our episcopal money managers knowingly and willingly conspired at the destruction of our form of government. The pecuniary prelates may yet lose.  Between the senate vote and the a conference to unify the House and Senate versions, the crown might yet slip through the tyrant’s fingers.

Nothing can exonerate the cash clerics for what they did on Friday November 6. They had already turned their backs on murder to protect their grants. On that Black Friday, they turned their backs on their own people and the safety of the nation.  All for the benefit of a would be tyrant whose bloody record on infant murder as a State Senator and U.S. Senator is unparalleled in our history, I wish I could read their philactories. I suspect they would read “Devoted Lackey of the Democratic Party.”

The NCCB acted out  its charade on Friday November 6 and on Monday November 9, Obama was already talking about how to renege on the supposed agreement.(NY Times, 11/9 page A20)

 

EDUCATION – STEAL THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS BACK

  It can be done

Ever since the Great One appointed another of his diseased friends, in this case a sex pervert, to oversee the safety of the government schools, the thought has bugged me that maybe this time he has gone too far. But like in the song title, it all depends on you.

A significant group of parents are completely disenchanted with government schools.

Quite a few feel so strongly about it that they have undertaken to educate their children at home. The government would like you to believe that they number in the thousands. Like all statistics in which the government has an interest, they lie. Home schooled children number in the millions. There is a dirty little secret involved in this numbers game. Home schoolers reduce the cost of education to the government. While paying the same taxes as those who send their children to the government schools, they eliminate the cost of schooling their children. But the counties and states count the home schooled children when they ask for their proportionate share of federal grant money for education. No one on either end of this deception wants to admit that they are stealing from the home schooling parents.

There are other parents, swept up in the American disease of greed, who view the schools as warehouses where their children can be dumped while both parents work feverishly to keep up with or outdo the Joneses. They love their children, but view them as an encumbrance on their voyage of acquiring stuff. This group is uneasy with what the government schools are doing to their children, but lack the time to focus on what disturbs them or how to resist it. This is also the group which is instructed by their betters that one cannot discipline the child; that the child is an independent person with all the rights of a thirty-five year old felon.

And there is a smaller, but significant group, itself in agreement with a socialist society, generally happy with the ideology of equality of outcomes. They offer the fewest misgivings about what government schools have become.

Maintaining the right of the state to mold the minds, character and social values of all children is, for want of a better name, the education establishment, essentially agents of the government in making the child into what the state wants. If that sounds exaggerated think of a case in California. It was about school funding and full of half-truths and subterfuge to con the taxpayer that massive expenditures were both necessary and frugal. But in arrogating its power to tax, the Court said,”the child is an asset of the state”. It was the one thing in the entire litigation which nobody contested.

We went from the untouchable right and duty of the parent to inculcate character and values in the person that they had engendered and the kid had become, in just a half century, an asset of the state like a used snowplow.

Arrayed against the parent are the federal government, state governments and local school boards and labor unions. To the first two, the business of education is power. They profit greatly from a dumbed down populace and are willing to spend substantial sums to that end.

The third element of the triad is the operative group. The education labor unions and the school boards which they usually own. They are first a labor union. They fight for easier working conditions, pay increases, immunity from the legal consequences of what they do to the children n the rare case where the parent catches on.

Teacher was once an honorific. It now describes a labor hack whose job it is to make your children into reliable subjects of the servile state. The government school is hostile territory to parents. It is where your child learns the attitudes you find so puzzling at home and parental awareness is the last thing the hack needs in his job.

Fifty years ago an offbeat religious group, the Scientologists discovered that government schools were doping unruly kids with a dangerous drug called Ritalin. Caught red-handed in unauthorized and probably criminal acts, the schools made lame excuses about why they hadn’t notified parents, but their main defense was to defame the Scientologists.

That brings us to how parents can steal back their children from the government .

Some rules

 

1. Ask questions. Daylight is a great disinfectant. Find out what they are doing behind your back. Even the warehouse parents will get upset when they discover that their kids will graduate high school with limited or no employability.

2.Listen to current employers complain about the products of the dumb down despots, who can’t man a checkout counter or restock the shelves in the supermarket.

3.Never confront them directly. Verify the disgraceful situation and raise a parents group. Interest a local newspaper in the story. Get a politician (preferably in office) to ask questions. You are never a rabble. You are concerned parents. Make it hard for the teaching tyrants to change the subject. You know the drill. You once belonged to a wrestling club; you don’t belong to PETA.

4.When the national labor union gets into it, start questioning why a national group is attacking local parents who are raising issues about their own children.

5.Stay away from politics. You don’t even know the political views of members of the group. That has nothing to do with the concern we have for our children and securing for them the quality education they deserve and the money spent by the government to achieve that end. 

When you are finally convinced that these hacks are not your friends, get mad and correct the situation. Rudiments of how to get rid of the government schools in our next edition.

 

WHAT THE ELECTIONS PORTEND

WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!WARNING!!!

I was aghast this morning to read in a column of the Washington Times that Steele, Gingrich and the Me too Republicans are already positioning themselves to steal the conservative outpouring in the 2009 bye elections and turn them into a shot by the cold oatmeal Republicans to return to power.

One line terrorized me “New England moderate Republicans are scrambling to make a 2010 comeback”. It names five guys, all mushes so dear to Steele and Gingrich. Four of them have already been thrown out of office by real Democrats.

If you treasure the progress made so far, give not one dime to the Republican party. Remember.

To these specimens, moderate means Arlen Specter, not just Dede Scozzofava. If you don’t want a bunch of squishes going to Congress on you dime and turning into the-” I’d fight for your patrimony, but today ends in y and I promised Nancy Pelosi I wouldn’t disturb her” that we have now, be forewarned. They intend to steal your hard work. Imagine a House where we give the Party of surrender a majority and their caucus turns into a spineless Lindsey Graham lookalike contest.

Some decent people may run as Republicans, but be careful to pick you target and give only to that person, not to the central Republican party. Remember, it was the RNCC that spent nearly a Million of your dollars on a person making robocalls for the Democrat candidate.

 

 

MICHAEL STEELE AND MORTON BLACKWELL

A TRIUMPH FOR MICHAEL STEELE

and of course Morton Blackwell.

It is a lie that Michael Steele and Morton Blackwell have endorsed Bill Owens, the Democrat running in the 23^rd District of NY. They let their their hand picked Republican candidate Scozzofava do it. Talk about a big tent. We now have Democrats in it.

Will Steele and Blackwell resign? They will not. They will pick the Republican candidates for the House in 2010, with help of course from Newt Gingrich.

Just remember the nearly one million dollars the RNCC spent on Scozzofava’s campaign when they ask for money to run candidates in 2010. I am reliably informed that the solicitations will carry a label{approved by Acorn}. A second label is under discussion to the effect that if the candidate should withdraw, he(she)(it) will consult Charlie Schumer about endorsement of opponents.

Do we laugh, cry or find a real voice for the working stiffs. For myself, I have ordered a big banner. It just says ” Let Steele and Blackwell- find honest employment.”

 

A Passing Thought

VOTING AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE WILL OF WHAT PEOPLE ?

 

We hear a lot of caterwauling about making registration to vote easier so that voting itself will be easier. It comes mostly from people like ACORN- Active Crooks for Obama Register Now. These are the same bums under investigation for registration and voter fraud in 20 states under as many names. Everybody knows what and who they are, but they are an integral part of election technique for one of our political parties, so they remain active in tipping close elections.

 

Does anyone want to admit they want the votes of people who carry instructions in one hand and a bottle of Jim Beam or a ten spot in the other into the voting booth?  Most of them are a living argument for making registration harder.

 

Why not? Do we want our fate decided by people who register as Minnie Mouse or d’Artagnon. Registration should be made as rigorous as possible. Prove you are who you claim to be and live where you say you do. People who bathe regularly have no trouble with that. Attempted registration fraud should be a non-bailable offense. It is now easier to register fraudulently than for a fifteen year old to get an abortion.

 

 Some complain that people vote for the charlatan who promises them the most. If that is bad, what about the guy who has a do nothing political job. He has a personal stake in making sure that the government does not operate efficiently, i. e., without him. Maybe no one who derives more than fifty percent of his income from a governmental unit should be allowed to vote in an election for officers of that unit. Imagine denying the vote in a federal election to 5 million people whose main interest in life is to take your money for doing nothing.

 

Think of how refreshing it would be if you knew that only others in the working stiff class got to vote on how they got robbed. This might be an idea worth pursuing. Stick it to the guys who have been sticking it to us. It makes me warm all over.

 

A Passing Thought

  THE NEW REPUBLICAN

 

How the Mighty Have Fallen

 

Dede Scozzofava is the new Steele and Blackwell standard model republican Congressman, woman, er, person

 

Hot damn, we’re all Acorns now.

 

I would say that that was queer but it isn’t any more and neither is queer queer anymore.

Would any self respecting person be a Republican. Take a look at the list of people we call senators

 

Graham Both Doles

Snowe McCain Lugar

Collins Hatch McConnell

 

And the Democrats have some beauties too

Durbin Sanders(I) Cardin Dodd

Schumer Specter Burris Franken

Reid Kerry Harkin Conrad

 

 

And those are only the ones who have proved their rank by opening their mouths . Who knows how many more ciphers are hiding in the anonymity of silence The current Vice President was a Senator. He is currently out of the country negotiating a treaty with the Pythagoreans over their adherence to the Pythagorean Theorem. He reports he is getting them squared away.

 

It makes you wonder why the general run of honest working stiffs wouldn’t punch out someone who called them a democrat or a republican. There are really only three groups of politicians in Washington.1) the ones who were crooks when they got here. 2) the ones who adapted quickly to the grab it while you can moral climate 3) the smallest group, the disillusioned who soon wish they had never come and can’t get out quick enough.