As the discussion of national health care progresses, details have been escaping the legal labyrinth that is now under construction in Congress. As these little scraps wriggle free of the lobbyists and staffers on Capital Hill we are afforded the opportunity to critique and question their true purpose.

Since we live in a Democratic Republic this health care bill must be the answer to requests of the people of our nation to their representatives. So who asked for the denial of care for the elderly at a time when they need it the most? Who complained that the American lifespan was too long? Who asked that our discretionary incomes be reduced? Was there a concern for the loss of votes from an out-crying of illegal aliens? Does 84% of Americans that are happy with their health care compare unfavorably with other countries?

Just as in the past when our country has uncovered civil injustices and inequities towards those too weak to fight for themselves; racial and sexual minorities, the young, the inexperienced, the physically and mentally infirm, all could look to our federal government to right the wrongs endured by the weak from the strong, meek from the powerful, or the harshness of the environment on the mobility, dignity, sense of worth, and self sufficiency of the handicapped. So much of what is visible of our government demonstrates a people resolute to the protection of those that can’t protect themselves and a legal system designed to ensure the sacred trust we hold in professionals: student/teacher, client/attorney, accused/constable, and patient/caregiver.

Certainly the humanity of rendering aid and diminishing the suffering of all life especially that of a fellow human is inarguably one of our greatest callings, and one that should be encouraged within the doctrine of all private and civic endeavors should our individual knowledge or (dis)ability, prevent direct personal action. However, I hear very little in this bill that is concerned with the rendering of aid. I hear much of who is, and is not worthy of such aid. I’m especially concerned with the intimation that the elderly are unworthy of expensive medical assistance and that there are even provisions within this great, though ill thought-out, legislative undertaking to counsel the elderly as to their lack of worth in their later years and ostensibly to condition the senior population to the premise that the prolonging of their life would be selfishly usurping valuable resources for their own well being.

Our own Declaration of Independence which reiterates the natural human yearning and unalienable right of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” seems to have had little influence in establishing the ground rules for the health bill now in discussion. How could this legislation disregard the length, quality, and joy of life itself when so much US law is built around the assurance that its people will not be denied the pleasure of living? Are there not laws prohibiting murder and manslaughter?

Comes now a law that limits not only the use of public funds, but the use of one’s own savings to affect life extending measures! How can the liberty of disbursement of one’s own wealth for the extension of one’s own life be denied when that wealth is the very measure of liberty and the fruits of one’s life efforts? Self preservation, the ultimate expression of individual freedom will hereby be denied by statute! How will that phrase continue to be uttered in this country?

I can not reconcile how the specific procedure of cataract surgery and its waste on the aged deprives the youthful as its need for the young is near non-existent. The same could be said for hip replacement, many heart surgeries, and a wealth of geriatric maladies. Who could be denied that one would not use. I’ve read that 50% of the health care needs of the US is used by 5% of the population, I say, “so what?” Medical care is not given to the healthy nor does it appreciably reduce most medical needs. Of course health care is needed primarily in the twilight of our lives! Of course! The denial of most procedures on the aging is the very definition of discrimination and the state-sponsored oppression of the weak and powerless. I’ve also read that much can be learned of someone by how they treat those who mean nothing to them.

Can we stomach the ultimate meaning of a bill written such as this: that the value of human life is NOT equal but may vary as some bureaucrat may determine to be in the best interest of the state?  With the elderly being denied care can we feel that any medical treatment decision is altruistic? Once the value of human life is shown to be variable, are we to assume that it could be argued in a court of law that the criminal taking of the life of the old will demand less punishment. The state will have by practice officially set the value through medical inaction. Once an accepted practice, can one also surmise that Congress has another tool to use in reducing health care costs in the future? Is some life more precious than others? Where does this slippery slope take us? Is this 1984? The adoption of a plan such as this will bring about epic changes in our nation’s moral values.

What this health care debate really boils down to is whether the state is here to serve the people or do the people exist at the pleasure of the state as its needs may dictate. A low maintenance population would definitely be beneficial for the state anyhow wouldn’t it?

The scheme has no official name as yet, but the basic rundown is as follows: under duress, the citizens of the USA “contribute” toward a “protection plan” throughout their productive earning life. In return, the “plan” has incentive to maintain the contributor to be a reliable and steady revenue stream to the plan during the healthy “low maintenance” earning years when the offspring of citizens are in need of intense care, understandably an obligation with which the promoters of the “plan” wish to avoid involvement where possible.

This con is a variation of the infamous Ponzi scheme, which everyone is familiar, but this time with a twist. Instead of relying on humanity’s natural greed to attract and retain participants, this version has a turbo recruitment feature: namely the forced enrollment and enforcement by an armed and powerful government. The avoidance of fines and imprisonment is a time-proven incentive, and totally alleviates advertising and sales commission expense, a large and wasteful portion of most schemes. For further cost savings, there is a unique exit feature that make large claims by citizens after a lifetime of contributions fruitless and therefore removes much of the nearly one-half of American healthcare expenditures. The ultimate crowning glory will be the total cessation of the private marketplace and therefore any competitor to “The Plan.”

In the out years beyond earning/paying and when children (new recruits) are then fully contributing, the plan “takes care of” the retirees that may have catastrophic health care needs. The plan is compassionate and recognizes that there “may” be very valuable seniors that require extra care and deserve it for their valuable service to society, if requested within a reasonable age limit of course. Provisions will be in place to determine the appropriateness of treatment and the recipients of such treatment. Of course, there will be ambiguous rules to fairly make any denials, so when there are those that have been more troublesome requiring care, they will be allowed to make a dignified (and quiet and pain-free) exit without  unpleasant, expensive, and extended goodbyes, efficiently conserving resources for the more deserving: favorite statesmen, majority party members and leaders. Remarkably, scam promoters are proclaiming that victims prefer to give up control and are totally comfortable with taking one for the team in the twilight of life.

Forewarned is forearmed, this is spreading like a virus right now and be assured that there are those that are scheming to tap that vast resource representing 1/5 of the US GDP. The last time this was tried was in 1993 and it failed. Today there are even fewer willing participants than then, but today there is a single party majority of 537 bureaucrats hell-bent on seeing this enacted.

Beware, “The Repackaging of HillaryCare.”  We’re gonna party likes it’s 1993!

Going on about a week now, and no tobacco. The chewing gum, patch, and the packages for every other crutch available to the nicotine addict litters my lavatory drawer – ALL ineffective. My most recent quitting aid was recommended by our new President: the tobacco tax increase and its resultant negative emotion: disgust. Couple that with GA’s $.37/pack, the federal tax increase brings the total tax to nearly $1.55/pack with sales tax (which compounds on top of the other tobacco taxes,) how nice. I know you Northerners classify any cig tax under $2/pack as lightweight, but that’s big in the South, where SC is still running 7c/pack for now.

The elation over the ever-improving smell in my pickup truck, house, and office; the slow whitening of my teeth that is sure to please my dental hygienist; and my wife’s (an RN) and my physician’s accolades will pale as positive recognition compared to my personal satisfaction of finally controlling some portion of my tax liability. There is so little I can do to control the impending energy taxes, carbon offsets and other eco guilt-trips that have and will be laid upon us as necessary atonement for our “monstrous” Capitalist appetite. Curly light bulbs can offer only a temporary reprieve before they will be determined to just not be enough and an insatiable taxetite will growl for more. But as for those tobacco taxes? THAT, I can control.

I now know how a high-school dropout must feel when buying Georgia lottery tickets, the proceeds of which enriches some college kids’ lives as it impoverishes the already poor lottery player’s life even further. Now, the extra federal tobacco tax funds the health insurance of other families, some of which with greater incomes than my own, and my family pays it’s own health insurance, thank you.

Tobacco has been cast as the scourge of mankind. Heroin addicts, alcoholics, and even career criminals are all considered victims, but not the smoker. The smoker is made to weather any condition to smoke in a designated area, no matter how remote or inhospitable. Smokers are to bear any financial burden for their addiction and endure any amount of ridicule to sneak a puff. Smokers have no feelings and are even considered bums by actual non-smoking bums. Smokers are the politically correct “can” that can be kicked around by anyone. Yes, anyone! The product of decades of conditioning, the reduced self-esteem of the “common” smoker is now at a level formerly occupied by only lice and dysentery.

Well sir, there is a level to which even this ardent puffer will not stoop, and it has been reached. I have little affect on the disbursement of tax monies, beyond what conservation alone may save through reduced consumption. But when our President defines so precisely the use of revenue derived from a tariff on a specific item of joy, we may make the outright moral determination as to whether or not we wish to impoverish the life of our own family while directly enriching the family of another, I say thanks Obama. Thanks for the easy decision, and thanks for the line-item veto.

Though the price alone would not have itself been great enough to push me over the edge and quit my filthy habit, the choice of funding a Socialist agenda through the exploitation of the frailties of my countrymen does so disgust me by its pure diabolical meanness, that I’m moved to deny this administration the satisfaction of using me in the fulfillment of that goal. And thanks also President Obama, for the creation of an even lower life form than smoker, namely, human livestock, with its collective snout in the feed trough, shedding what little may be left of American pride, individualism, and liberty. The new administration is gearing up to efficiently transport, feed, house, and care for even greater numbers of plebes into the new national army of proletariats yearning over generations for a chance to perform a useful purpose.

I know that my individual statement of abstinence is of little consequence beyond my personal relishing of victory over a pact with the Devil. But if through large numbers of objections, a measurable reduction in revenue were felt, would it be an “unpatriotic” thing as Joe Biden has said or would it expose a government hell-bent on controlling its flock’s behavior with oppressive taxation on tobacco, alcohol, French fries, soft drinks, or cholesterol content.

The general health of the herd would dictate that government would, of course, have to control the habits and activities of its population so get ready for more and more action already evidenced by government removal of soft drink machines from schools; the removal of animal fat and all flavor from deep frying; or criminalizing the use of saturated and hydrolyzed fats in NYC.

Don’t be alarmed when at some future date that a nearly immeasurable mortality decline will be discovered due to chocolate consumption. It will be deemed useful for the State to place chocolate on the tax hit list because of the obvious high cost in maintaining a government-sustaining population with the expense of such an extravagant habit. You see, government can be sustained more efficiently if the wasteful expenditures devoted purely to the joy of the workers are kept at a minimum or even better, banned, so that a better revenue/calorie ratio may be achieved. A happier government will be the product of such minor sacrifices. A result that I’m sure we would all be proud of.

Oh, and don’t be alarmed if I don’t “remember” to be outraged at the State for poopooing your chocolate habit. I can think of few things better than removing one more tie-staining weapon from a child’s grubby little fingers and turning it into a revenue generator for the State. I know you don’t smoke, but it would serve you right since you have said nothing as the government incrementally removes all of the joy from a cigar and brandy.

So, to go along with that new chocolate tax, what do you think about examining the carbon footprint of that obnoxious little dog of yours more closely? Hmmmmm?

As a lawful gun owner and Georgia Firearm License holder I am vigilant in maintaining my compliance with the law as it relates to the lawful use and ownership of firearms and ammunition. I see this proposed bill as an unnecessary imposition on lawful Georgia gun owners and see little if any benefit to law enforcement and the apprehension of criminals and the criminal use of firearms.

I’m sure that lawful gun owners will begrudgeonly comply with such a law if enacted, but the law is a lopsided and unreimbursed burden on lawful citizens who are the most unlikely to contribute to the perceived problem that this legislation is targeted to solve. What is created is the real possibility of making an unwitting criminal out of the bedrock of Georgian society due to the fact that the very possession of an unserialized cartridge places the thousands of permitted concealed weapon licensees at jeopardy of a criminal record with a gun law violation, an infraction that would remove a cherished privilege for a lifetime.

The criminals that are associated with most gun-related deaths are unlikely to be qualified to openly and lawfully purchase guns. Furthermore, if their weapons were by default unlawful, logic would dictate that they would be unconcerned with the “I” dotting and the “T” crossing required by such a law as Senate Bill 12. Career criminals are unlikely to use a weapon directly traceable to them, and it could not be expected that such a person would purchase a serialized cartridge with the correct identity. As most throwaway weapons are stolen and untraceable to the offender, such a requirement of ammunition could hardly be expected to turn up anyone but the unwitting accomplices, lawful gun owners that themselves were the victim of theft or robbery. Knowledge of the original purchaser would contribute nothing to solving the specific case, only place a burden of record keeping on the lawful purchaser of ammunition and the involvement of law enforcement in the disposition if even known, of such ammo if stolen and place the dead end of the investigation one step further from the culprit.

Any possibility of positive effect for the citizens of Georgia will be far outweighed by the burdens of accounting and cost of replacement of handgun ammunition which is historically purchased in quantities that take into account the extended shelf life a of product of this type. An investment that can easily amount to hundreds of dollars per gun owner if one owns many different weapons.

Additionally, like most gun control legislation, the likely perpetrator of crimes that this law is altruistically meant to deter or apprehend is hindered the least by the existence of such identification, both in foiling the accountability or in the total disregard of even the existence of such markings on the ammo in their possession. As ammunition that was manufactured during WWII is routinely used today, the effective eradication of uncoded rounds could not be realized for 50 years or more.

It is my opinion that whatever the intentions are that prompted the conception of Senate Bill 12, or the perceived benefits of this type of law, the effect is to burden the lawful and conscientious gun owners of this state and place upon them the punitive expense and effort of compliance to an exercise that may prove only to be a prelude to outright bookkeeping of every round purchased and fired and a personal accounting of every undischarged round as it would be as unique as a fingerprint and ultimately traceable to the lawful purchaser, who as such, would be a criminal suspect until other evidence if existing, exonerated him. Not a farfetched assumption as a stolen automobile or weapon currently leads law enforcement to such conclusions. Furthermore, this bill carried to its logically fully developed state would eventually place the accountability of every bullet and cartridge casing on the shooter, as a criminal could cast unwanted attention away from themselves and on any other individual by simply gathering spent cartridges from a shooting range and depositing them at a crime scene.

This is bad law. This is the accelerated continuation of an effort to criminalize the rights acknowledged in the 2^nd Amendment by smothering an otherwise lawful citizen with the unnecessary and cumbersome responsibilities of compliance so great that the individual can no longer manage or tolerate the effort. This law’s ultimate form will be to stifle the joy of sport shooting and diminish if not entirely extinguish the lawful individual’s capacity to defend one’s self. It is easy to envision a stair step of evolution of this type of law to eventually include long guns, antique collections, primitive arms and even .22 caliber ammunition that are popularly used in training guns for youth. If .22 ammo is considered pistol ammo and included in this law, the cost of its cartridges could easily triple and diminish the usefulness of the wide variety of rimfire weapons sharing that cartridge and enjoyed by families for generations. All the while, the criminal is as always, non-compliant and the law does nothing to curtail the crime that it is proposed to deter.

To read Georgia Senate Bill 12, click here.
http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/fulltext/sb12.htm

To contact Georgia State Senator Ramsey, click here,
http://www.broc.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/senate/ramseybio.php

To contact your Georgia State Senator, click here
http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2007_08/senate/senatelist.php

The biggest piece of good news is that Barack Obama has now officially removed the shackles on black America by demonstrating that even the highest office on Earth is within reach of each of us. Black America should hold its head up proudly as there is now an example that there is nothing that a dream, hard work, and determination cannot accomplish. Congratulations, may Obama’s victory serve as an inspiration to us all, individual desire is the only obstacle to any American attaining lofty goals. May we now all put down the party banners and work together for the best America possible?

As has been the cycle for over two hundred years, two or four years from now the expectation/reality gap will widen and a renewed and energized body politic will put forth their candidates and try to convince a majority of the need for to stay/change the course. Once again, the citizens of this great country will remind our leaders by speaking up and letting them know just who’s boss.

The 20th century journalist, H. L. Mencken said it best, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

These are not isolated cases of freak fronts or other singular weather anomalies, but startling continent-wide massive weather movements. North America, Asia, and Australia are battling global chilling in the true sense of the term. A very few recent examples below:

London is experiencing the first October snowfall in 74 years.

Arctic Ice is 28.7% greater than last year and still climbing.

Brisbane endures coldest October (Spring) morn in 32 years.

Ocala, FL records coldest Oct. 29 in 65 years. 2nd coldest Oct. day since 1850.

This graph illustrates a drastic crescendo and dip of temperatures over the last 4 years, returning to 1979 levels. Stabilized trend line shows dramatic fall.

NOAA published analysis from Mauna Loa Hawaii Observatory and data summarized with emphasis on the last 4-year period in the graph below clearly shows a dramatic correlation of CO2 rise with the extreme global drops in the above temperature graph.

Is this just coincidence? Previous erroneous conjecture of CO2 warming correlation did have the positive possibility of self-moderation because of an obvious decrease in fossil fuels for home and commercial heating with temperature rise. Less heating reduces the consumption of coal, fuel oil, and natural gas and thus a linear reduction of the byproduct, CO2.

The significance of CO2-induced cooling is that dependence on aid from behavior-enhanced control is problematic. The act of warming ones dwelling or business to combat inhospitable cold produces even more CO2 emissions that further raises the fuel required to achieve the same results of comfort. This increase in CO2 and subsequent decrease in temperature demands more and more CO2 producing fuel consumption in an exponentially increasing and self-feeding spiral of CO2 produced cooling. Since warming in winter is a natural human survival requirement, the avoidance of this activity is counterintuitive and naturally cannot be expected.

The Conundrum

The survival instinct of man is the enemy of reducing CO2 though the failure to do so negatively impacts the survival of human kind. The failure to warm against a hostile winter cold negatively impacts the survival of the individual. There is nothing short of primal rewiring that can stop it. Merely talking about ways in which mankind may possibly overcome its eventual demise of freezing contributes to this process by producing exhalant CO2.

I hate to pile even more on a planet wrought with economic chaos and energy and political volatility but, after much thought on the matter I’ve come to the realization of the utter futility in solving what may be man’s last great struggle. I can’t think of a solution, so I suggest that instead of creating mass hysteria we keep this kind of low-key and make the best of it.

The sooner we come to terms on how helpless mankind is, the sooner we can concentrate on what can be done to comfort mankind as much as possible in this catastrophe. What will inhabitants of a cooling planet really need? Coats and sweaters! A really smart businessperson can capitalize right now with well thought out investments in cold weather gear and with the P/E ratios at fabulous levels due to the market drop, well folks, there are some great bargains out there. This is the ground floor and global cooling can do as much or more for the garment industry as global warming did for the private jet and public speaking industries.

You never know, there might even be a Nobel Prize in this.

“We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama because he is more flexible and rational..”

The sheer weight of the recognition of Obama’s rationality by the standard bearer of coherency, Iran, challenges my vocabulary for words that can describe my awe.

This easily trumps Obama’s magnanimous acceptance of the Bush Administration’s former point man and the left’s proclaimed personification of evil, Colin Powell. I guess that would be that “flexible” part that the Iranian’s were so excited about.

Proof positive that the Obamessiah can transcend mere sovereignty and cast aside principle and the very fabric of our existence to come together with those that wish us ill. As demonstrated by the recent embrace of Gen. Powell, Obama’s flexibility will prove useful to other countries by insuring that even our adversaries can confidently enter into discussions with the USA without the baggage of facing their countrymen in embarrassment with a deal that was not 100% favorable.

With less than 2 weeks remaining before the shafts of light descend from the heavens, there is still time for Kim Jong Il, Vladimir Putin, and the Taliban to join Obama on the mountain and then when he is robed, dogs will lie down with cats.

One could have only hoped to be so fortunate as to be alive during this epoch and witness the man, the miracle, the ONE. As a Republican, one could only hope for the last brush stroke on the canvas, the little sparkle that only a grand master could place in the eye on the painting and declare it a finished work–the nod of consent from Robert Mugabe. One can dream can’t he?

Later he went by the McCain booth and he said they were out of the Dumdum suckers, but there were 50-60 people waiting in line there to buy buttons and t-shirts and such. The McCain booth was selling the stuff and it was a 20 minute wait to give them the money! They had sold out of the McCain/Palin yard signs.

I know this is Georgia, but Middle Georgia has a very high African-American population count, and they were reasonably represented at the event. You reckon that the people at the McCain booth were energized or just collectors of losing candidate memorabilia? I don’t know but I’ve still got a “W ‘04″ sticker on my car.

I have not been a fan of the bailout plan mostly due to the fact I knew so little of it. I was relieved to find that the provisions that would have potentially greased such organizations as A.C.O.R.N. had been removed prior to its failure to pass on Monday Sept. 29. The subsequent passage by the Senate and the general discussion of much improvement over the weekend draft was viewed by me with guarded reassurance.

Today’s report from Mr. Morano has reinforced my natural skepticism of congress. Page 180 of the now 451 page ‘‘Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008’’ pdf here includes some very disturbing and in my opinion, sneaky and subversive utilization of what is being jammed through congress altruistically as the very lifeline for our economic well being and quite possibly the World’s.

This time-is-of-the-essence emergency bill, HR-1424 has embedded in its belly, the well thought out beginnings of the treatment, auditing and taxation of carbon taxes and credits.

What in the hay is going on here!

I have been patiently reading from respected members of Congress, not the least of which is Sen. Cornyn R-TX in RedState today; my own Senator Chambliss R-GA and many diarists here at RedState that I have grown to respect. I have forced my mind to disregard my own lyin’ eyes to defer to those that I felt were on top of this; that were in the same sinking ship as all of us, to plug the hull breech. Instead, I see the first class lounge being redecorated!

What I see is the seed for a far greater burden on the US than we have ever imagined. Even the unfathomable $700bln, could become merely the 2nd largest boondoggle in our soon to be brief history. The unlimited fleecing provided by the imaginary menace, carbon dioxide is a far greater threat to liberty and the free market as we know it.

At a time that the “consensus” of global warming alarms of the planet boiling in its own pudding is finally subsiding and sensible and notable scientist are proclaiming apostasies on virtually a daily basis, I view this as a last gasp effort by the environMENTALists to cram a banana up our collective tailpipe.

The idea of taking advantage of a population desperate for an answer and dependent on others to quickly plot a new course is placing us in the very vulnerable position of helplessly accepting carbon tax along with the perceived benefit that the bail out bill is intended to accomplish. What say you? Read page 180 of the new bill. Please tell me I’m wrong on this.

I’m not the American that stuck the flag on the mailbox for a few weeks following 9/11; or wears a flag hat, shirt, or pin on only the 4th of July. I’m the nutcase that has a flag pole cemented in the front yard; that raises the flag to full staff at noon on Memorial Day; that checks for the official presidential orders on use of half-staff for the deaths of important national leaders; that has his dead WWII veteran father’s flag neatly folded and displayed in it’s case in the living room and calls home to be sure the flag is lowered if my arrival will be after sundown.

I’ve heard that good character is washing your hands when you are the only person in the restroom, when no one is looking. In the context of a national political campaign, character is defined as when the cameras and lights are down, the mic is off, the press has left for the bar. What is left is the real deal. What is left is what can be expected of our elected leaders when the election is over and the makeup is removed.

When I raise my flag my heart is full. I love my country and though I can’t embrace her enormity physically, I can embrace her symbol and through it those that have fallen to fly it. There is no audience when I raise, lower, or fold my flag. There is no witness if I were to let it touch the ground. But I would know, and that’s enough.

Would the Democrats let my flag touch the ground? I know the answer now, and that’s enough.

There are excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the Sun and the Earth’s temperature, while scientists cannot find a relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption, and global temperatures. But global warming is an issue no longer being decided in the scientific arena.

I’ve noticed over the past several months, an ever increasing number of notable scientific players willing to buck the money stream and speak on the real science that the religion of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming proponents say that their hyperbole is based upon. As these numbers grow, even the shy among those that have remained in the background are emboldened to come forth and shore the foundation of scientific method in our search for sensible answers to what may be actually happening in our climate.

believe in global climate change, but there is no way that humans can influence the temperature of our planet to any measurable degree with the tools currently at their disposal. Any human contribution to global temperature change is lost in the noise of terrestrial and cosmic factors.

Mr. Cunningham speaks frankly in *Launch Magazine Online *about the pitfalls of an emotional reaction to the apparent religious calling of those that claim to wish to save the Earth.

The conflict over AGW has deteriorated into a religious war; a war between true believers in human-caused global warming and nonbelievers; between those who accept AGW on faith and those who consider themselves more sensible and better informed. “True believers” are beyond being interested in evidence; it is impossible to reason a person out of positions they have not been reasoned into.

My own personal (and non-scientific) observations over the last few decades are reinforced by Cunningham’s insight, supported by a lifetime of professional experience and rare access into scientific, business, military and government perspectives. Col. Cunningham says here what the meek dream of.

In the face of overwhelming evidence for natural temperature variation, proponents of AGW are resorting to a precautionary argument: “We must do something just in case we are responsible, because the consequences are too terrible if we are to blame and do nothing.” They hope to stampede government entities into committing huge amounts of money before their fraud is completely exposed—before science and truth save the day.

Walt talks plainly in this editorial about the left’s attack on freedom and big government’s expanding role in usurping liberty and curtailing the economic engine of our great nation using the ruse of protecting our planet.

Mr. Gore’s mission towards a reduced CO2 Earth and increasing his more than $100 million personal wealth was especially humorous against the backdrop of a voluminous listing of excerpts from the EPW Press Blog.

Top UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Turns on IPCC. Calls Warming Fears: ‘Worst scientific scandal in the history’ – June 27, 2008 - By Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist who specializes in optical waveguide spectroscopy from the Yokohama National University, also contributed to the 2007 UN IPCC AR4 (fourth assessment report) as an expert reviewer.

Over the last several years I have watched the cautious questioning by a few brave scientists snowball into a deafening mob reminiscent of the townspeople of Transylvania outside the castle of Dr. Frankenstein. Now that the evidence (or lack thereof) has grown to include a decade without warming the boldness of the opposition has become satirical denouncing the indefensible position of the IPCC and the Enviro-Political Complex (EPC).

Oceans Cooling! Scientists puzzled by “mystery of global warming’s missing heat”- Marc 19, 2008 -

My eagerness to learn more and more on the real science of climate and man’s effect, if any, has now transitioned more towards the entertainment angle as the headlines are now more like straight lines from stand up comedy.

UN IPCC in ‘Panic Mode’ as Earth Fails to Warm, Scientist says – March 25, 2008

and

How cold is it getting? Harsh winters force Mongolian horsemen to abandon nomadic life

and

Thermometers Are Doing the Talking - by global warming author and environmental economist Dennis T. Avery – June 9, 2008

You just can’t make this stuff up.

I am literally lol.

Traders took a look at a feisty and aggressive George Bush and started selling the market well before a single new drop of oil has been lifted. What does this tell us? Well, if Congress moves to seal the deal, oil prices will probably keep on falling. That’s the way traders work. They discount the future. Psychology and expectations can turn on a dime.

What if congress did the same and the media announces contracts being let for new oil drilling rigs; the softening of environmental approval; new and more promising mineral leases. If the relaxing of President Bush’s executive order alone can fire one over the bow, how much effect can a true team effort have on global oil futures?