America is in a meltdown.

After the housing bubble burst, leaving us in a heap of crap, it seems that both the Bush administration and the Obama administration took steps to make a bad situation worse. Funnelling hundreds of billions of  dollars into a ‘stimulus’ that wasn’t was only the first step down the path to ‘WTF?’. After that it was Cash for Clunkers, Stimulus II, Health Care Reform, Cap and Trade, the oil spill, and now Financial Industry reform….. all answered by still more and more government involvement, government intrusion, and government takeovers.

These guys in DC are obviously either mentally ill, or they are doing it on purpose. (The second does not preclude the first)

As of this second, we are $13,112,107,708,778 in debt. That’s $42,351 per citizen, or 118,706 per taxpayer. Our GDP, or what we MAKE in terms of goods or services, is $14,424,041,055,720. Our gross debt to GDP ratio is 90.90%

For you and me, that would be like having a $140,000 home, a $60,000 job, and having a debt of roughly $184,000. Could you dig yourself out of that? Ever?

But wait, there’s more. We have entitlements. God, do we have entitlements. Our social security liability is $14.4 trillion, the prescription drug liability is $19 trillion, and the medicare liability is $75.8 trillion – giving us a total of $109.29 trillion of entitlement liabilities, or $353,026 per citizen. Oh, and the dark lining behind this silver cloud: It’s gonna get worse.

In 2010, so far, we’ve had 1.419 million bankruptcies, and 869,929 foreclosures. We’ve imported 287 billion barrels of oil, 115 billion from OPEC. Bailouts from the government are currently at $5.055 trillion. And to make it even more interesting, we are paying $196 billion just in INTEREST on the debt.

I ask again, “WHOSE RESPONSBLE THIS????”

Who has taken a merely bad situation and flushed the rest of the economy down the tubes with it? Who has made boneheaded decisions and policies – time after time after time after time again? WHO? Someone needs to kick their asses!

It’s easy to sit back and say “I inherited this”. It’s the standard political cop out. “Eight years of Bush and see what happened????” Well, Mr President, that dog don’t hunt no more. This is squarely YOUR problem now.

Who kept pushing for Stimulus when WE THE PEOPLE were against the idea? You.

Who kept pushing health care reform when WE THE PEOPLE were against it? You.

Who kept out the foreign ships from the gulf when we needed their help? You.

Who kept people from building sand berms to stop the oil from reaching our coastlines? You.

Who is suing the state of Arizona for daring to have a law that mirrors existing federal statutes that aren’t currently enforced by the feds? You.

Who sent PetroBras 2 billion dollars to do deep water drilling in Brazil? You.

Who created massive unemployment by trying to shut down the offshore oil drilling industry? You.

Who is forcing oil platforms to MOVE AWAY from the US to places where they can actually drill and pump oil? You.

I’d stop blaming Bush if I were you. (Even Bonzo the wonder iguana is having trouble believing you with this line.)

Then again, I’m not mentally ill. And I’m not aiming to destroy the country either. Which are you, Mr. President?

AND ANOTHER THING: JOHN MCCAIN…

Senator McCain….. I’ve been hearing your political commercials here in Phoenix. You are filled with hubris if you dare to think, let alone say, that YOU, personally, are Arizona’s ‘last line of defense’. You are a representative of the state of Arizona, nothing more, nothing less.

And a sorry one you have been.

You voted for the 680 billion dollar bailout. You championed the McCain-Feingold assault on the first amendment. You backed the amnesty plan for illegal aliens. And you DARE to call yourself a ‘conservative’ in an election year? A conservative from where exactly? SAN FRANCISCO?

I don’t know what’s going to happen in this upcoming election cycle, but anyone with that much conceit and self-aggrandisement should NOT be a senator. If J.D. doesn’t defeat you in the primary, I hope the democrat wins in November – at least he won’t be a ‘senior’ senator and can’t do too much damage until we kick his ass out in 2016. Senator, YOU have become a danger to this country, a danger we simply can not afford.

If you had fought for the presidency with the rhethoric and comparison ads you are making with J.D., you’d be president today. But apparently, you keep your venom in reserve to only fight candidates that are more conservative than you are.

Senator… It’s time you were educated. WE THE PEOPLE are the last line of defense for Arizona. And I hope we ‘splain that to you in the next election cycle.

AND YET ANOTHER THING: J.D. HAYWORTH

Boy, you screwed up with that infomercial. But you did something good. You admitted the mistake and apologized. Good job, brother. Everyone screws the pooch on occasion. The wise man learns and moves forward.

Now, stop playing McCain’s game. You will lose. Play YOUR game: the game you played on the radio airwaves. Get out there with simple direct messages about your policies and plans and IGNORE the competition. No fancy violins and french horns, just you and a mike and your message.

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That’s all we seem to hear these days. “This is for the children”, “Think of the children” and things along those lines. Do these hacks not see that preventing our children having debt up to their eyeballs (and higher) is equally as important? Is keeping our children’s freedom intact even more important?

The climate change lobby (“Big Climate”) has, for years, told us that the sky is falling. Well, from the leaked information (mostly the program source code) we see that they should really be called ‘Chicken Little’. From the emails, we can see that they should also have the title of ‘high school bully’.

But who can blame them? They are saving the world, right? Yeah, right. What they are mostly doing is chasing the 100+ trillion dollars in the Big Climate slush fund. They are chasing fame and fortune, just like Ken Lay of Enron did. You remmember Enron, right? Maybe that’s too old for some of you. Let’s see… they are chasing fame and fortune just like the UAW was in the GM and Chrysler bailouts. Remember that one? Where they got enough corporate ownership that they now sit on the board of directors? (Ahead, of course, of the bond holders who actually invested in the companies)

And, to top it all off, the guys at the CRU threw away the original raw data. That’s right, in an age where you can buy a 1 Terabyte drive (1000 Gigabytes) for about $100, they threw away gigabytes of data as opposed to archiving it. This is the scientific equivalent of the atom bomb – without this data, there is NO WAY to replicate any of their science. Now, they KEPT the massaged (to the point of silly putty) data. But the original data – gone. This ALONE is a crime against science.

It means that the children will never really know this data. They never will have access to it for other studies. They can never ever use that data for the next 100 years in their own studies. This one singular act has done more damage to climate science than this passing fraud called Big Climate.

And even children can understand that if you start with bad information, you make bad decisions. Everyone in Big Climate is saying, “But but but this is PEER REVIEWED!” – let’s give them that (for fun). If you had honest peer reviewers that started with bogus and manipulated data, and they analyzed papers BASED ON THAT BOGUS DATA, they would say that the papers are fine. Yeah, right. If you start with garbage data, you get garbage conclusions. GIGO – Garbage in, Garbage out.

So, each and every study, research paper, and conclusion that depends on the tossed data is, in effect, useless. Since the CRU provided the data sets (the massaged data sets, or dare I say, the ‘fraudulent data sets’) that everyone based their years of research on – well…. GIGO. These people are like the Mafia – one set of books for ‘the family’ – the other set for the Feds. That’s a decent analogy – the Big Climate Mafia – out to steal your money and hurt your kids.

And the Big Climate Mafia has allies: Al Gore, The BBC, The mainstream media here in the states, Newspapers, The environmental lobby, The Democrat party, The Green party, James Hansen, and a host of others. These allies need to be investigated as well. We need to know how far in the Big Climate Mafia has its tentacles. After all, we are talking about the potential theft of over 100 Trillion dollars from the childrens. Dollars that could have been used to feed them, or house them, or clothe them, or get their education, or get them to the Moon or Mars, or solve REAL problems here in Earth. It’s time to follow the money.

It’s time to take down the Big Climate Mafia and their friends. Anything else would be a travesty.

It’s for the children.

Yeah yeah yeah, Bernie was the biggest con-man ever, until last week. Last week, I am sad to say, saw exposed the biggest conspiracy to defraud the entire world of TRILLIONS of dollars. Those in the know (read that as those who actually look to sources like Red State, Drudge, Talk radio, and Fox News) already know what grand theft I am talking about. I’m talking about, of course, ManBearPig. Oh, sorry… had a South Park moment. We’ll do that again, take two: I’m talking about, of course, global warming scientists.

Those pesky scientists. I was trained in the sciences, and even I could tell this whole global warming/climate change thing was just fundamentally screwed science. I expected that the method of science: that of hypothesizing, collecting data, theorizing, collecting more data, and reproducing the experiments would eventually show the abject stupidity of the premise. I made a mistake, I was thinking ‘real’ science.

For you see, global warming/climate change science is not, in any sense of the word, ‘real science’. It is (in simplest terms) agenda-driven science. Here’s how it works: you determine an outcome you want, then you manipulate the data to prove your desired outcome. In the meantime, you make sure to suppress any real science being done on the issue (because it may prove your outcome is not accurate, or worse, not supported by any real data) and to malign anyone who dares question your agenda-driven conclusions. Sound familiar?

If that last part doesn’t sound familiar, let me jog you memory a bit…

• NASA’s James Hansen has called for trials of climate skeptics in 2008 for “high crimes against humanity.”
• Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lashed out at skeptics of 2007 declaring “This is treason. And we need to start treating them as traitors” In 2009, RFK, Jr. also called coal companies “criminal enterprises” and declared CEO’s ‘should be in jail… for all of eternity.”
• Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics (January 17, 2007) Excerpt: The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to “Holocaust Deniers” and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists.
• Barone: Warmists have ‘a desire to kill heretics’ — Calls for capital punishment for ‘global warming deniers’ – DC Examiner – June 9, 2009

Alas, Bernie – you had the touch, but these guys make you look like a piker. They are actually calling for executions if you don’t buy in (literally) to their agenda!.

And the buy-in? Trillions of dollars of your hard-earned tax dollars to combat a problem that doesn’t exist. Mostly American tax dollars if you look at the proposed breakdowns. Makes those billions Madoff took look like loose change.

Please take note – science is NOT to blame here. Science is the best method we have to date to evaluate and test hypotheses and theories. Science took us to the moon, to Mars, brought us amazing drugs and vaccines, and has probably saved more lives than any other field of human endeavor. Whatever happens, do not blame science itself.

Blame the true perpetrators: Scientists that compromised their scientific integrity for their own personal or political gain. Oh, and blame them HARD. If they participate in ANY science again, immediately demand that their results be verified by independent and critical scientists.

There’s a TON of scientists who have been saying that this is a hoax for years – and they got no press, were threatened with loss of their jobs, were called fools, were physically threatened, and generally we laughed off the stage. For a subset of these scientists (after all, scientists are people too and some, maybe most, will bow to the pressure and back off), visit http://www.petitionproject.org/ – 31,486 scientists (9,029 with PhDs) standing up against the unethical scientists and their junk science.

THESE scientists need our support now. They are the real ones – the ones who call ‘em like they see ‘em – even if they don’t particularly like the outcome. It’s called ‘being honest’ – they were honest and were called on the carpet for it. THESE are the people you want doing studies!

Dear congress,

I am writing to you today not as a democrat, nor as a republican, nor as a member of any ideological group. I am writing to you as an American, just like the millions of Americans you were hired to represent in congress. It is time to stop your silly partisan bickering and actually do something useful for a change. It is also time to learn from history and not repeat the same mistakes that a similar congress made over twenty years ago.

Oil and gas

Right now, Americans are truly concerned at the current gasoline and energy prices – gasoline that they need to go to work, school and yes, the occasional vacation; and energy they need to heat and cool their homes, and power their appliances.

It’s time to stop pointing fingers of blame at the oil companies who are providing energy at a very reasonable profit margin – about 9% – which is the very engine that brings us more developments in higher efficiency and research into additional supplies of oil. I’ve heard both sides of the aisle rail about the 11 billion dollars that Exxon Mobil made, and not a ONE of them mentioned the 130 billion they put out to get that 11 billion. That’s deceptive on your part, demagogic in the extreme, and a disservice to the American people at the least.

We all know that the various governments make more per gallon than Exxon Mobil does with their fuel and energy taxes. And you guys don’t do a THING to help research efficiencies or new developments. Before bitching at Exxon Mobil, pass a federal law to eliminate ALL special taxes on energy (normal sales tax is fine). THEN you can complain.

Americans also know about supply and demand. We learned about that in the late 70′s when OPEC curtailed supply, causing prices to skyrocket. We also know what happens when you put those windfall profit taxes on oil companies – it causes pump prices to go up even higher and rationing to occur.

You need to stop screwing around and allow the oil companies to create more supply. Yes, the direct supply won’t increase for a few years, but once it does, we won’t be able to be held hostage any more. Stop thinking about the next election and start thinking what is best for America in the mid and long terms – do it right and the next election will simply take care of itself.

If we had drilled domestically at that first alarm in the late 70′s and early 80′s – we wouldn’t be in this situation today. In fact, it’s conceivable that we wouldn’t even have been attacked on Sept 11th. Actions have consequences, and the lack of action has consequences as well.

One thing that many people don’t know about is speculation and how it avoids being pegged to the supply and demand rules. The speculation price is based on what someone believes the price will become, or, in simpler words: psychology. If the congress were to act today to open our proven reserves, the speculators will see that the supply is increasing from a stable source (America is pretty darn stable), and the speculative price will start dropping well before the first drop of crude is pulled from our fields. Much of the speculation price is based on the instability of supply source (i.e. The middle east) and will drop dramatically once the supply is stabilized and increased.

Nuclear and coal

It is also time to face those irrational fears about nuclear energy. Note that I said irrational. Nuclear energy is a very safe alternative at the present time, and there are certainly dangers (just as there are dangers in any energy production – the oil industry is directly responsible for thousands of deaths over the years – mainly because the industry deals with exceptionally heavy equipment). Technologies exist right now that would make nuclear reactors exceptionally safe and physically impossible to overload or meltdown. The ‘China Syndrome’ monster has been killed, let it rest in peace.

If we would commission one nuclear installation in each of the 50 states with the originally designed generating capacity of Palo Verde in Arizona (10 reactors generating 12.2 gigawatts), then we would switch from a 500 billion energy deficit to a 200 billion energy surplus.

In addition, we should commission fuel reprocessing facilities so that the used nuclear fuel can be recycled. This would lower the fuel cost and eliminate the need to store high-level nuclear waste. Doing this will ensure reactor fuel for about 1,000 years by using a combination of ordinary reactors with high-breeding ratios and specific breeder reactors.

Using our coal resources (proven reserves are sufficient for 200 years), we can harness the heat from the nukes to produce 38,000 barrels of oil from coal per day per reactor. Remember, there are 10 reactors per complex, yielding a total of 380,000 barrels per nuke site per day, and if there are 50 nuke sites, that would be 19,000,000 barrels per day, or  6,939,750,000 barrels per year. Or, to put it simply: Twice the total Saudi oil production per year.

As an added benefit, the reactors could produce gaseous hydrocarbons as well, yielding even more production.

Finally, the remaining heat of the reactors could warm air or water for use.

But the big win comes with the fact that nuclear reactors can also create tremendous amounts of pure hydrogen in the future – which ensures future energy needs with the promise of a hydrogen-based energy infrastructure.

Future technologies

But, even our oil fields, coal deposits, and nuclear fuel will eventually give out – so now is the also the time to start heavily funding research into alternative energy. We need to foster research into hydrogen, He3, solar, wind, bio-fuels, and other technologies. And I am not talking the piddly little research grants we have seen from you and your previous congressional cohorts. I’m talking BIG, but that can wait until we have the 200 billion energy surplus, when we can easily wipe the national debt AND fund accelerated alternative research.

Science holds the key to true American independence. But science is not what political ideologues try to pressure it into being. Science is always challenged, never truly settled. Take something as basic as gravity – it’s not settled YET. Science keeps open eyes to all challenges and changes as the data and evidence changes. Anyone who says the science is settled is almost invariably 100% wrong. Keep that firmly in mind.

The role of government

It’s simple – get out of the way. Cut the confiscatory taxes against the very companies that can ensure not only our energy survival, but our energy future. Allow them to use our resources in an environmentally conscious way. No one, and I do mean NO ONE, wants to destroy our planet – not you, not me, and certainly not the oil companies. But there has to be a reasonable middle, and so far, congress is standing in the way of critically needed progress.

You have, now, within your grasp, the ability to ensure America’s energy future, and at the same time, take the largest step ever taken to erase the national debt completely, and guarantee a new, brighter, future for succeeding generations. In fact, if done correctly, you could virtually eliminate the income tax entirely in the future, AND provide national paid heath insurance – the gains are THAT big in scope.

Be a true hero. Start cooperating with each other across the aisles to make America into the true embodiment of the last best hope for the world. This is not the manta of ‘Drill here, drill now, save money’ – this is a plan to energy and economic security that will last into the next millennium. Start being a visionary, the votes will come.

Very sincerely,

An American Citizen

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For reference:

Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Annual Energy Review, U.S. Energy Information Admin., Report No. DOE/EIA-0384 (2006).

American Nuclear Society, Nuclear News (2007) March, 46-48.

Penner, S. S. (1998) Energy

Posma, B. (2007) Liquid Coal, Fort Myers, Fl

Ausubel,. J. H. (2007) Int. J. Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology 1

Penner, S. S. (2006) Energy 31

Simon, J. L. (1996) The Ultimate Resource 2, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, New Jersey.

Here’s an interesting question for ACORN, SEIU, the Obama administration, and other corrupt groups.

“What makes you think that the two filmmakers were the first to get inside your corrupt organizations?”

Where do you think we awful conservatives get our intelligence from? Divine intervention? No. We get it from people who tell us who are currently IN YOUR ORGANIZATIONS.

Think about it. Our young intrepid budding journalists targeted four ACORN offices and scored FOUR HITS. ACORN says that these employees are not representative of ACORN’s policies, so…. obviously someone inside ACORN told our young journos where the bad apples were, right? It’s either that or, well, your organization is as corrupt as we believe.

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“The winds of change blow round and round,
It makes a mighty rumbling sound.”

Those changes came swiftly and most rumblingly to Van Jones, special advisor for green jobs at the white house, after people learned of his past in his own words. Truly, his resignation was self-inflicted by his passion for spouting his ideology hither and yon, across the media landscape.

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I was trained as an engineer, back in the day when reality was the touchstone for pretty much any project. Engineers are trained to be both practical and realistic. We can not change the laws of physics, we must adapt our designs to incorporate their (definite) existance, and their unfortunate nature of being utterly and completely consistent.

One of the very first things you learn in the cold cruel world is an axiom that has been proven true time and time again by people much smarter than you, the young engineer, are. It’s called many things (some of which would violate redstate’s terms of service), but my name for it is “The Iron Triangle” which usually is expressed: Good, Fast, or Cheap – pick any two.

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This is going to be shorter than usual.

You know, it is true that I am right most of the time, but there are times when I just blow it. And as an honest man, I will admit it, apologize (if it’s warranted), and strive to do better in the future. It’s called having integrity and admitting your faults. I’ve run successful companies like this, and I try to be like this in my life.

With that said, President Obama, I do owe you an apology. You promised hope and change, and I mistakenly painted you with the wide brush of a typical politician trying to pander to voters. I called you a typical leftist liar only intent on self-aggrandizement and your own power, both in public and private. And I said that change is all we’d have left if you ever got into office – meaning that you’d break the economy.

I was wrong. I’m sorry.

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One of the hallmarks of people with the conservative/liberatarian bend is the concept of “personal responsibility”. But have you really thought what that truly means? In the concrete as well as the abstract?

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We have come home, back to the realization that we, the mob, the PEOPLE of the United States of America, are the sovereign of this country. We, THE PEOPLE, have come home to the fact that we have certain unalienable rights, not all of which are enumerated in the Constitution. We, THE PEOPLE, those you are supposed to represent, have come home to the fact that we will have to force you, our elected representatives, to hear us. We, THE PEOPLE, have come home to the fact that we must awaken from our long slumber, and let you know that you are not doing your jobs, and are insulting us and our beliefs and principles in the process. We, THE PEOPLE, have come home to the fact that our first amendment rights are being trampled on by the very people who should be encouraging us to speak our minds. And perhaps, you should come home to the fact that the framers – those dead white guys who are smarter than ANYONE in Washington today, put a second amendment in there so that we could protect ourselves from the usurpation of the first.

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