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Cradle to Grave Environmentalism

 Global warming is going to be proven as an old wive's tale in the not too distant future. Things that were told to me as a child, like you catch cold by walking on a cold floor with your bare feet, that the bubbles in the water from the tap is chlorine, that leaves turned brown because of frost in the fall or that swimming after eating caused cramps were all proven to be false. One of my favorites was told to me by my grandmother. Eating peanuts will block your arteries because the little chunks of peanut get caught in the veins. All false, but we believed them because everyone said they were true. So it is with man-made global warming.
 
Never mind the fact that the earth has cooled in the last 7 years in spite of the media hype that we are doomed! After it's proven to be a hoax, will they apologize? NEVER! Just as the media prints their retractions to stories that originally appeared in bold on page one back on page twenty-two in fine print, so will the truth about the global warming myth be presented. Quietly...
 
From the minute we get up in the morning we are bombarded with this lie. Turn on the radio and if the talk show host is not discussing it or the news commentator is not tying some disaster to global warming, then the commercials are talking about it. Honda, Toyota and most car manufacturers are trying to sell their vehicles, and because they think this is what their consumers are thinking about, they tout GREEN technology. Save the planet. Buy a Prius! (Or Pious as we lovingly call them with FREE Earth First bumper sticker to the first 100 customers.)

Our utility monopoly in California, PG&E, is the worst... Global warming is a choice. PG&E is NOT a choice. There's nowhere else to buy energy. But together we can save the planet if we use their product. HUH? Sweat in the summer and freeze in the winter, wash your clothes at night, observe spare the air day and flex alerts. Not a word about what they will do to increase supply! 
 
On one hand, I respect that corporations are trying to sell their products and have the right to advertise the way they want, but it perpetuates the global warming myth. After all, if everyone is saying it, it must be true, right?
 
And our children are being brainwashed as well. Dora the Explorer and other cartoon characters dominate Saturday morning television with messages of environmentalism. Geesh, even the kids can't get a day off! Remember Captain Planet? A concoction of Ted Turner to turn kids against big corporations... never mind the fact that Ted Turner IS a big corporation. TBS, TNT and several news channels to name a few. Ironic, is it not?
 
More and more it is being reported that scientists are leaving the global warming consensus as data comes in. Computer weather models have been consistently wrong in predicting patterns, and experts are coming to realize that our climate is much more complicated than they can artificially manufacture. Man, in his ultimate arrogance, is constantly being brought to his knees by nature during each earthquake, flood, hurricane, tornado, volcanic explosion. One day we will realize that we are insignificant with regard to affecting global warming. That's my prediction. Don't doubt me.
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Legislators out of control! California's AB2678

If you want to see what Communism looks like, it's getting close to that in California. We have anything but a free market, and the legislators are driving businesses out of the state by the droves. Now they are aiming to kill the housing market in the name of solving global warming! As if they could.
 
The San Francisco Association of Realtors (SFAR) is hard at work trying to defeat Assembly Bill 2678 proposed by Fabian Nunez. The goal of the legislation is to force point of sale energy audits on home buyers and sellers. In a state already suffering from the effects of a weakening housing market, Mr. Nunez is proposing oppressive regulations that would 1) force home buyers to have and pay for an energy audit that 2) sets out a timeline of energy saving upgrades that would have to be made or the owner would face fines and penalties. Is this the government that is supposed to be for the little guy?
 
The SFResidence Blog has a short editorial about it along with some comments put forth by the SFAR. It's worth reading and give several phone numbers of people to contact if you oppose this new regulation.
 
Our government is out of control at the federal level as well as the state level. They are moving toward a Communist form of government where the elected elites get to choose what the rest of us can and can not do. I, for one, am getting ready to leave the country and head for Panama!
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2 years of Democrats and look at what's happened? Can we stand any more?

 I have been thinking about what I would write next. As I have pondered the recent problems with the economy, it occurred to me that these issues were not present until Democrats took over both houses of congress 2 years ago. Why has the media not mentioned this?
 
Fact: Because of the Bush tax cuts our economy has been soaring for almost 6 years without much of a blip.
 
Fact: 2006 elections put Democrats in the majority in both houses of congress and things started to come apart.
 
Fact: Gas prices are going though the roof. Everyday at the pump, prices are higher than the day before. It's almost reminiscent of the Jimmy Carter years when going to the grocery store meant so many stickers on a can of soup because the prices were changing hourly!
 
Fact: Of all the candidates, only Obama favors NOT giving the citizens a break from the federal gas tax. In California, the state tax is about 3 times that of the federal tax, and the state is STILL out of money!
 
Fact: Because scientists predict that global temperatures are going to stay relatively low for the next 15 years, they are saying that global warming is taking a vacation whereupon, when the 15 years are up, it's going to ramp up again. Can you believe it? These people who are so worried about the rise in CO2 are the same ones who made us all get catalytic converters for our cars to turn carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide are now complaining... because it worked? These are the same 15 nut jobs who are sitting in a room with the 5 PETA people and a fax machine, churning out our environmental policies!!! And they say Bush and his cronies are running the world. HARDLY!
 
Chuck Schumer is a moron. He recently discounted the gas tax haitus saying it wouldn't do enough and would put our streets, roads and infrastructure in jeopardy. Chucky should come to San Francisco where the streets are so full of pot holes, they are in jeopardy NOW! But where does the money go? To the city council who seems to think it is more important to promote gay marriages and oppose the war in Iraq instead of fixing the potholes. So lower gas prices are not going to hurt anything. These things are already in jeopardy!
 
My point is this. Democrats are always promising to make things better if we just give them more of our money in taxes. Bull!!! They are taking over 50% of our payhecks with all the payroll taxes plus taxes on our phone, gas and electric, cable... and now they want to tax services (in California). Enough is enough. It's time for the TEA PARTY!
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McCain - Democrat LITE?

Dick Morris is wrong to advise McCain to beat the Democrats by out-liberal"ing" them. What a crock. The last thing we need as a country is 3 candidates with the same view on every issue. And that's what we have.
 
Which one said we need to set policy so that we can defeat global warming? All of them. If anything, we need a leader with common ense. And McCain has none of it.
 
He is committed to shutting down Gitmo and giving enemy combatants citizens' rights. As an ex-POW who is pro-military, you would think he would get it. But he does not. In fact, I have not even heard Hillary or Obama talk about this folly.
 
I know Republicans are screwed this election cycle. Hopefully we can hold out until 2012 and get a candidate who really stands for something. McCain will not win the election, if Democrats have their way. I've read Shadow Warriors, so I know what liberals are capable of!
 
 
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Ted Turner is a hypocrite!

Today on Rush Limbaugh's show, he played a sound byte of Ted Turner which infuriated me. How dare he blame us for global warming? First of all it's a hoax (just like the global cooling theory many years ago), but when he says it's caused because too many people have too much stuff, I almost exploded!
 
So why didn't the news reporter interviewing him ask, "then why don't you lead by example and start giving your stuff away?" Because the media lies! And for some reason, liberals never see the hypocrisy! Just like Al Gore, Turner is putting the blame on the rest of us while he lives his opulent lifestyle, and flies around in his corporate jets. If global warming IS happening and anyone is to blame, it is the likes of these two!
 
Yesterday I opined about the unintended consequences of rent control; how it hurts the very people it was implemented to help. Today, I wanted to write about the hypocrisy of ethanol and the law of unintended consequences, but reporter, Cinnamon Stillwell at the San Francisco Chronicle beat me to it with a brilliant piece today.
 
As it turns out, producing ethanol may cause more pollution than it saves by being used as a gasoline additive. For those of you who didn't pass 1st grade math, if it costs 10 to produce something and saves 8 to use it, that's a net loss of 2. Okay? Let's move on.
 
Add to that the price of any food that involves corn products (meat and poultry that use corn for feed) is skyrocketing, and you can see that this is a BAD idea. Corn that was once used as food is now being used for ethanol! But here's the kicker... You and I are paying the difference in the form of government subsidies. So not only is it not cost effective to produce ethanol (means they can't make money producing and selling ethanol on its own merit), but we taxpayers must also subsidize the producers so they can make enough money to be profitable. If it's such a good idea it would be able to make it on its own... Like plasma televisions and DVD players that all started costing a lot of money, the price eventually came down and they are still making money... no government subsidies there!
 
I know I read somewhere that Ted Turner owns farm land that is being subsidized by us, either by NOT planting on it or for growing corn that is being used for ethanol. Either way, you'd think we'd at least get a thank you card from the guy. What a jerk.
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Another example of vegans at odds

I have been quiet for the last couple of days, but several thoughts hit me yesterday and I will try and articulate them this morning in a series of posts.
 
First of all, let's talk about the natural food, vegans who are probably all anti-oil. Where do they think that pleather comes from? Sure they don't want to support the killing of cows as meat or leather, so they wear synthetic substitutes. Problem is, they are also probably against oil, drive a hybrid, but don't realize how many of our plastics come from oil products... including that pleather jacket they are wearing.
 
My point is this. Many people are against things. Especially here in Mill Valley. Problem is, they are hypocrites in the fact that there is no getting away from the very things they are protesting! Not sure if I made my point or not, but it makes sense to me.
 
Hybrids are a good example. The Toyota "Pious" has its own theme song now. As annoying as it is (I turn the sound off when it comes on), they still use gasoline. So how does that really help the environment, especially since our population is growing and the amount they save will be offset by new drivers in a very short time... More to come...
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