So, as I have stated here and here, the global warming scam, is the new communism. This statement needs to be clarified a bit. It is the impetus for embracing totalitarianism again.
James Hansen, the godfather of manmade global warming has this to say.
The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. So, I’m not surprised that people are getting frustrated. I think that peaceful demonstration is not out of order, because we’re running out of time.”
Hansen, is the same guy that has been busted numerous time for cooking the data, yet is still heralded as the bright and shining altruist, that just wants to save us from ourselves.
This guy is a fanatic. He is advocating a forced approach to “solving the problem”. Cap and trade does not go far enough, he is hoping for a super Kyoto that will bankrupt the entire world economy.
The devastated grandparents were told they would never see the youngsters again unless they dropped their opposition.
The couple, who cannot be named, wanted to give the five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister a loving home themselves. But they were ruled to be too old - at 46 and 59.
For two years they fought for their rights to care for the children, whose 26-year- old mother is a recovering heroin addict.
They agreed to an adoption only after they faced being financially crippled by legal bills.
The final blow came when they were told the children were going to a gay household, even though several heterosexual couples wanted them.
When the grandfather protested, he was told: ‘You can either accept it, and there’s a chance you’ll see the children twice a year, or you can take that stance and never see them again.’
So the social workers take two grandchildren away from their grandparents because they say the grandparents are too old to raise them. The couple in question are 46 and 59 I believe. It is not like they are 95 and on the verge of death.
After two years of legal battle the grandparents, now broke, give up the fight. They just want to make sure that the kids will go to a loving family at this point. That is when they are told that the family is two gay men! The gays were chosen even though several qualified normal families where available.
Social activism, being played out with children, and it is despicable. England has gone completely, batshit, crazy. God save us from the Eurosocialists.
If something like this happened here, there is a good chance that the grandfather might show up to the foster home, armed, to save his grandbabies. Then the family, having to be on the run from the government, could survive hopefully. In jolly ‘ol England, unarmed peasants have no such options, to fight totalitarian leftism run amok, and must bow down, and ask for another helping.
This is why we must fight to the death if necessary, to keep from becoming unarmed peasants ourselves.
When asked if she had failed at getting bipartisan support for the unstimulus bill she replied,
I didn’t come here to be partisan. I didn’t come here to be bipartisan. I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest.
The city’s plan is to get food manufacturers in the United States to agree to gradually start reducing salt content until it reaches a 50 percent cut in 10 years.
“Salt, when its high in the diet, increases the blood pressure and high blood pressure is a major factor for heart disease and stroke,” said Dr. Sonia Angell of NYC’s Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Program.
This is just Mayor Bloomberg’s latest health initiative, following on the heels of a smoking ban, a ban on trans fats and forcing restaurants to post the calorie contents.
Now we have the war on salt. That’s right, freaking salt. While his city is in a horrible financial crisis, Mayor Bloomberg and his nanny state cabal of do gooders, have nothing to worry about, more than salt in people’s food.
Here is the money quote.
Thomas Frieden, the city’s health commissioner, said he wants manufacturers and restaurants to join the war on salt voluntarily. If they don’t, the city could pass legislation making it the law.
There it is. We will make you do it if you don’t do so voluntarily. We can use the power of the state to beat you about the head of yet another issue we have no business being involved in.
Welcome to English socialism people. New York City is becoming the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, this illiberal democratic nightmare of governmental interference, is a simply a microcosm of what the Democrat controlled federal thugs have in store for us, if we let them do as they will.
Free men must realize that every bit of liberty we relinquish act as a pebble in the dam that is being constructed to separate us from our river of freedom. Slowly but surely, these people will dam up our river one pebble at a time, all in the name of protecting us from ourselves.
I, for one, don’t want their protection. They can keep it, and shove it were the sun doesn’t shine.
From Drudge we get this bit of complete misunderstanding of concepts.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi boldly defended a move to add birth control funding to the new economic “stimulus” package, claiming “contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.”
Pelosi, the mother of 5 children and 6 grandchildren, who once said, “Nothing in my life will ever, ever compare to being a mom,” seemed to imply babies are somehow a burden on the treasury.
The revelation came during an exchange Sunday morning on ABC’s THIS WEEK.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hundreds of millions of dollars to expand family planning services. How is that stimulus?
PELOSI: Well, the family planning services reduce cost. They reduce cost. The states are in terrible fiscal budget crises now and part of what we do for children’s health, education and some of those elements are to help the states meet their financial needs. One of those - one of the initiatives you mentioned, the contraception, will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So no apologies for that?
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.
Wow, just wow. This is almost unbelievable. It is very illustrative of two facts though. Democrats don’t understand the difference between the private economy of the nation, and the public government. They also don’t understand that the taxpayer’s money does not belong to the government.
This is an incredibly stupid idea. We are going to spend $100 million on rubbers. Of course this idea is central to leftists. They can’t wait to hand you a condom for some reason. How this is going to “save” money is beyond me. I guess less babies equals less welfare, and other entitlement programs? This has to be the logic our vapid Speaker of the House is using to justify spending that kind of money on rubbers.
That probably is not even true. For some reason these people take delight in people having unwed sex randomly with strangers. They encourage it every time they can, and now they are going to use federal tax dollars to do it. It is almost like some kind of legislated immorality.
This bill is supposed to be about stimulating economic growth. Let’s set aside the fact that pumping money into the economy, and taking on another trillion dollars of debt, is not how an economy gets a jump start. It is a recipe for super inflation.
This item is not economic stimulus at all however. Handing out free condoms does not create jobs, or get people to spend money. It simply becomes another bloated government program that serves little purpose, but sucks up plenty of resources.
The states budgets should not be a concern of the federal government, and they surely should not make a bit of difference, when you are trying to stimulate the economy. This Democrat idea of population control being fiscally smart, is asinine on its own. Actually claiming that it will help the economy somehow is just plain stupid.
She doesn’t even mention stimulating economic growth in her answers. The reason for this is simple. This bill has nothing to do with stimulating the economy. It is simply a trillion dollar list of liberal pet projects. It is set to be the largest instance of government largesse and corruption in our nation’s history.
Pelosi is an evil lunatic. Her devious fake smile is alarming when you see it. This woman has no business running a fruit stand, much less our great nation.
Update: Well, after doing a little more research this is worse than it seems.
This is a good start from the Heritage Foundation. RTWT!
Some lowlights:
Contrary to current law, the income of parents or even a spouse may not be counted in determining eligibility. A state would have the option to “consider only the income of the applicant or recipient.” In other words, a child in a family at any income level may be eligible for free family planning services.
So, this is a massive expansion of government, as I had suspected. Now just about anyone can receive family planning service (read contraceptives and probably abortions) on the federal government’s dime.
A child would be able to receive benefits through a “presumptive eligibility period” and beyond without parental knowledge that he or she applied for Medicaid.
End run for parental notification for abortions?
Typically, Medicaid eligibility is restricted to individuals in a family with a dependent child. Section 5004 creates a new eligibility group that would include college students, adults without children, and even adults in a household that has significant income but little or no income for the applicant. Moreover, applicants would not have to prove their citizenship before their “presumptive eligibility” is determined.
Illegals can get in on this too!
The Obama Administration will interpret whether the payment language (”[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law”) may be used as a backdoor means of overturning Hyde Amendment restrictions on federal funding of abortions.
There it is! I knew this was the reason behind this entire thing. This means Eric Holder, the leftie new Attorney General, will be able to decide whether abortions will be part of this or not. Survey says, “Yes”.
So soon we will be stimulating the economy by more taxpayer funded baby slaughtering.
It always comes down to killing children with these people for some reason.
Update 2:Greg Pollowitz put up more of the conversation here
PELOSI: No apologies. No. we have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy. Food stamps, unemployment insurance, some of the initiatives you just mentioned. What the economists have told us from right to left: There is more bang for the buck, a term they use, by investing in food stamps and in unemployment insurance than in any tax cut.
Nonetheless, we are committed to the tax cuts because they do have a positive impact on the economy, even though not as big as the investments.
Seriously? She really made that claim.
“Economists” say that giving away abortions, and racking up the national debt to do so, is better than just giving the people that money back, and letting them spend it on whatever they want, without any more debt.
This may just be the most completely asinine thing that I have ever heard.
It also illustrates again how Democrats view taxpayer’s money. When she says invest, she is talking about blowing taxpayer’s money. When she says spend, she is talking about letting us keep it for ourselves. You see, she doesn’t understand that letting people have their money, instead of using the government to steal it, does not equal government spending. She sees tax cuts as government spending. This is one of the biggest problems with big government types. They often will say things like, “This is a giveaway to the rich!”, when in fact it is the “rich” keeping more of the money they actually earned. When they are actually spending the “rich” people’s money, it is called investing, even though it never actually comes back to the investor, and is lost entirely down the sinkhole of entitlement.
Appeasement of our enemies, and infanticide will be the hallmarks of Barack Obama’s first week as our President.
It is now being reported that Obama will in fact order today that we resume funding overseas abortions. Apparently, slaughtering American babies is just not enough for our shiny new leader. He will sign this one day after thousands and thousands of people gathered in Washington DC to protest the decisions reached by the SCOTUS during Roe vs. Wade. This is really a good example of uniting the country there Barack.
The other focus if his this week, will have deadly consequences for our people as well. He is going to close down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and has already ended the military tribunals that had been established there. The tribunals themselves represent years of hard work by a lot of dedicated Americans serving their country. Without even offering a plan for trying the prisoners, Obama waved away the current, well-working, system.
He also outlawed common interrogation techniques, such as water boarding, and others, which we used to get vital information out of terrorists. KSM, the 911, planner, was waterboarded, and turned over info that we use to interrupt many terrorist plots.
Another bright move was to close down any CIA prisons on foreign soil.
Basically he is showing a tremendous amount of weakness to our enemies, and it will get Americans killed.
I realize he promised to close Gitmo and all that in the campaign. My question is why is it the biggest priority of his administration?
Remember Harry Reid telling us that the war in Iraq was lost, and impossible to win?
In case you forgot here is a video:
Hahahahaha. There is only one word for this. The word is dumbass.
That’s right. Harry Reid is a dumbass.
This is not shocking news for any of my few readers of course. We have chronicled Dirty Harry’s stupidity on this blog many times before, and, in fact, have posted the same video.
The truth of course is that the surge worked wonderfully, and we won the war. The surge worked. George Bush won the war, and Obama will be able to remove the troops now, without disgracing our country. The Iraqis will have to defend themselves and hopefully they will pick up the ball and maintain their new freedom from tyranny.
No matter what happens, our fighting men and women, including my best friend Kirk, won the war, and provided the Iraqis with their chance.
One thing that must never be forgotten, is the fact that Obama would have pulled out the troops whether or not we were winning. He, as Democrats during the Vietnam conflict before him, would have snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory.
