As I See It

Obama czars are out to regulating all of the light bulbs in use inthe US.   They are not content with the phasing out of the incadescent bulbs with those mecrcury CFL’s of a few years ago.

“I know light bulbs may not seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7 percent of all the energy consumed in America is used to light our homes and businesses,” the president said, standing alongside Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the White House.” 

“Obama said the new efficiency standards he was announcing for lamps would result in substantial savings between 2012 and 2042, saving consumers up to $4 billion annually, conserving enough energy to power every U.S. home for 10 months, reducing emissions equal to the amount produced by 166 million cars a year, and eliminating the need for as many as 14 coal-fired power plants.”   Link to story.

Sure thing.   “Reducing emission of 166 million cars a year.”   Now if you believe this that changing out our light bulbs and installing new improved energy improvements not yet technically proven and possible, then, Obama and his ‘czars” of different stripes have additional plans for you.   It’s called a tent with oil burning lanterns.   Ooops, oil is out, so your  lighting will be candles.

It’s just all about power over you.   Telling you what you can do,  how you can do it and where you can do  it.   Include in that who you can do it with to fulfill the diversity mandates.

Cap it and tax it. 

Sure, you can do that, but you’re going to have to pay for the privilege of doing it.   Consider it like an entrance fee to the national parks. 

The tide, of course is the ‘theory’ of climate change, which is advancing across the world like a tsunami.   Europe is on board.  The US is about to get fully on board.  China is on board, as is Japan.  The underdeveloped countries are on board, not because they need to change their way of doing things, but because they see billions of aid coming their way from the developed countries.   What’s left is that Australia was on board, but is now leaving the ship. 

The WSJ by KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.

If you haven’t heard of this politician, it’s because he’s a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.

Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as "deniers." The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.       Continue reading. . .

On Friday the House narrowly passed what is known as the ‘cap and trade’ bill.   Now it goes to the Senate for final passage and a token signature from Obama.  

Now, I know that my two senators will vote against this bill, but how about yours?   Call them and insist they vote NO.  Bring up this article as cited above and ask them to read it and take note of the evidence against man made global warming "unconvincing green science."

I feel that over the past months I’ve been reading a novel of futuristic political intrigue with international ramifications, where a man out of nowhere is able to ascend to the most powerful political office in the world.   He does this by his charisma, his youth, his charm and his endless talk of implementing changes that resonate with the masses.  He is welcomed to this post mostly because of his minority status, not because he had an established experience in politics and public service.

He is cheered as they do a rock star at an outdoor concert.   He has had deep pocket connections with radical socialist and communist groups who are able to keep their direct involvement a relative secret, because the media is so caught up with assuaging their guilt of the countries previous racial discriminations, that they neglect to investigate those ties and be true to their journalistic code of telling the whole story and nothing but the truth.   Instead the media jump on the band wagon of support just as teens whooping and hollering at a rock concert.  Some notables in this media even label the new leader as a god.

During his campaign he goes to several European cities gathering crowds in the hundreds of thousands of teens and young adults cheering and whooping it up with upraised arms as if he was a savior of them even though he would not be their leader.   None of the previous presidents had ever campaigned overseas before, but the media loved it as a sign of international importance to acquire foreign approval ratings.

Once elected to the presidency, he begins his appointments of dubious intellectuals who in their own idealism of being above the law had cheated on their personal tax obligations.  Each of them also have their own connections to radical anti-democracy groups.  Right away the new president elect has the gaul to call these people “czars” as he gives them unbridled authority, responsibilities and oversights of segments of the economy.  Yet the media says nothing.  The media sits by and reports to the masses how wonderful this new president is and what grand things he’s about to do to make the necessary changes to help the poor and downtrodden, to bring equality to all.  At one of his many local meetings, a common person slipped by the staff responsible for insuring that the questions asked are complementary to his agenda.  The presidents answer to this common person’s unsuspected question reveals the true hidden agenda; that of redistributing the wealth of the nation, a definite communistic goal.  The media dismisses it as an off handed remark taken out of context.  The lower class of the masses are thrilled by this though, and the presidents approval rating increases.

A national economic crisis that has world wide implications, spreading to just about every developed country comes to a head.  He uses this crisis to gain more and more power and expand his approval as the masses are blinded by his genuineness at solving these problems with promises that they will not lose their jobs and security.   It don’t always work smoothly though as thousands do lose their jobs, but the expectations continue as if he is some sort of god with outer worldly wisdom at being able to protect and provide for them all.

He proceeds to nationalize the Banks and the Auto Industry, protecting the masses who work the assembly lines, the middle managers of the banks as he promises to rectify the major differences in pay of the CEO’s and the rest of the management teams.   He appoints a czar to oversee the earnings of the CEO’s furthering his control and power, redistributing their pay to the middle managers.   He appoints a czar to oversee the car manufacturers and sends the manufacturers billions to design and build the kind of cars the president wants the people to drive, ultimately planning to remove all but the government approved vehicles.  He creates a way for the masses to buy these new cars as the government buys back the older clunkers at inflated prices.

His power gets stronger and stronger as the weeks pass, and just a few months into this new administration he is able to gain enough support from a crooked congress to pass the largest tax increase in the history of the country hidden away in a bill that will transform the entire energy industry of the nation.  The people are sold on this agenda using the idea of saving mother earth for the grandchildren, requiring everyone in the nation to reduce their energy usage or pay a tax.  Since the people hate paying taxes, they comply.

The novel continues on this same path as a massive new reform of the entire health insurance and medical industry are put under the control of his various czars.

On the international scene, this new president starts negotiating with the religious leader of what used to be an enemy, by encouraging the leaders of another state to divide their land and hand it over to the religious zealots of that state’s enemy.

It’s a futuristic novel of international importance as this one person is able to transform the entire governmental make up as the nation is captured and made into the image of the various utopian desires of the czars under the direction of this one man.   The nation is transformed from what previous historians have called the greatest nation ever, into an idealistic experiment into utopia.

The president tells the people: “We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past.”

Eventually though, the new president bankrupts the country, the people end up in dire straits financially depending on welfare for life’s necessities that the government can’t supply.   The masses slowly get disgruntled over their loss of freedoms and rights to private property, freedom to worship as they desire, that of assembling themselves together in peaceful demonstrations, their right to go hunting and fishing, and being able to speak out against this dictatorial leader.

Eventually, a new youthful energetic group of millions of new dissidents rises out of the grass roots, the rural areas, the suburbs that are left and storm the capital by the millions surprising them all.  Even the media was willing to keep this growing movement quite for years. The masses arise to overtake this tyranny, claiming the land again as governed under the original constitution, with a few modifications like legislative term limits and an entirely new system of taxation that is fair to all.   Slowly the masses begin to rebuild all that was restricted and forbidden under this man.

The truth eventually surfaces that this leader never was officially qualified to hold that office as a natural born citizen, and he and the members of congress who approved his qualifications are all tried for crimes and sent to prison for life.

Late yesterday afternoon, the US House of Representatives passed the 1201 page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by votes of 219-212.  Eight Republicans voted yes and 44 Democrats voted against the party stand.

House passes climate-change bill

Conservatives are calling this the largest tax increase ever on ALL Americans, not just the rich, but the poor will see increases also.  The price of energy is going up.  The price of housing is going up.  The price of food is going up.  Expect price increases everywhere.  The objection is not just about taxes etc, it’s that the entire premise for this bill . . . is a bill of goods.   20 years from now those conservatives who witnessed, talked and wrote about these  past 5 months will be saying  “We told you so.”  “Why are you so surprised.”  “You would not listen.”   “Now you have the changes you voted for and you don’t like it, do you.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hours after the House passed landmark legislation meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions and create an energy-efficient economy, President Obama on Saturday urged senators to show courage and follow suit.

The sharply debated bill’s fate is unclear in the Senate, and Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to ratchet up pressure on the 100-seat chamber.

“My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this,” he said. “We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don’t believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth.”

Obama said the bill would create jobs, make renewable energy profitable and decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil.

“It will spur the development of low-carbon sources of energy — everything from wind, solar and geothermal power to safer nuclear energy and cleaner coal,” he said.

Yep, if you believe that government will be able to do all of this, then You must also believe that fairy tales are true.

The republicans who pushed this pass are:

Mary Bono Mack (Calif.-45)
Mike Castle (Del.)
Mark Steven Kirk (Ill.-10)
Leonard Lance (N.J.-7)
Frank LoBiondo (N.J.-2)
John McHugh (N.Y.-23)
Dave Reichert (Wash.-8)
Chris Smith (N.J.-4)

Otherwise the tally would have been 211-220 and it would not have passed.

Harry Reid admits he did not have enough time to read the 1071 page stimulus bill he voted for.   Will he now have enough time to read and digest the 1201 pages of the cap and trade energy reform bill?   Will anyone have time to read it?  Will the public get a chance to review the deep dark secrets of the bill?  Will Harry Reid have enough time to read and digest the Health Care Reform bill?   Do they care?

Reid was asked the following question: “When the stimulus came up earlier this year members and citizens had less than two days to review the final bill before it was voted on. Will you commit to give Americans at least a week to review the full conference version of the health-care bill before it’s voted on?”
The majority leader did not directly answer the question.

The House is set to vote on something today, and that something should go on without the media watching today as that media and the public will be obsessed with the passing of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson.  The daily shows and hosts will have assembled the full life history of Michael and Farrah for the masses to weep over.  The media will also be flying somewhere to interview the hot babe that Mark Sanford sacrificed his life for.  Stupid.  Idiot.

This is the opportunity, the time to act is today, as a major matter of grave importance has been provided as cover for the workings of our congress today.

Washington (AP)  - House Democrats narrowly won a key test vote Friday on sweeping legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republicans said the bill included “the largest tax increase in American history.” The vote was 217-205 to advance the White House-backed legislation to the floor, and 30 Democrats defected, a reflection of the controversy the bill sparked.

All I can say is that the elections of 2010 will be a great opportunity for America to act and throw the bums out.   A house cleaning is in order.

A group of people are now complaining that the US Capital, meaning the House and Senate has a disproportionate number of white Caucasian people working in the offices of our elected officials.   Minorities are not being represented in numbers as represented to . . . whatever.  

From Congresses own blog:  The Hill.

Even with the first black president and African-Americans and Hispanics wielding more power than ever in Congress, there are just two Senate chiefs of staff who are minorities. In the lower chamber, there are only five white lawmakers who have African-American chiefs of staff. And only four African-Americans are staff directors of either House or Senate committees, according to statistics prepared for this article.

“Given such poor numbers, let’s acknowledge that there is something broken about the process,” said Citigroup lobbyist Paul Thornell, a former aide to then-Vice President Al Gore and Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle (S.D.). He said there are “few intentional strategies in place to promote minorities.”

So, first of all, why should there be in place "intentional strategies" to promote minorities?   That’s affirmative action.  That’s reverse discrimination, if you will allow me to be logical.  That’s saying that for every 100 staff members there must be 32 minority staff members, of which should be broken down to include 13 blacks, 4 Asians, 14 Hispanics, and 1 Native American.  Logically, then the rest of the white staff should then be broken down into numerous European ancestries such as 15 Germans, 11 Irish, 6 Italian, 4 French, 9 English, and so on ad nausea.

Still, critics say both chambers should formally embrace the Rooney rule, which requires that NFL teams interview at least one minority candidate when they are filling head coaching vacancies.

Before the 2003 rule was established, 6 percent of NFL coaches were black. Now the figure is 22 percent.

This month, the NFL extended the Rooney rule to teams’ front offices, where the ranks of executives remain overwhelmingly white.

Is the NBA working under the same rules?  There seems to be an abundance of blacks in the NBA.  The MLB?   The Hockey teams?   Girls Softball?   And what about the PGA?   Ask Tiger woods if he made it to the top because of affirmative action. 

The congressional black caucus is a racial group.  It’s not working under a Rooney rule.  What about the EPA, the HSA, Social Security or Defense Department or the IRS?  The Rooney rule should apply to the directors and staffs of these agencies too. 

Get logical with me now and let’s extend this diversity stuff to include religion, and then sexual quotas too.   76% of the staff would have to be Christian; so many of them Protestants, then Catholics and Mormons, 7th day Adventists, etc. and then each of those groups split into racial quotas, then sexual quotas (meaning males, females, homosexuals, and pedophiles too) to round off the staffs of everything in the country.   Are the store managers of Home Depot racially diverse?   Chili’s restaurants? Avon?  Principals of schools?  Airport managers?   TV stations?  Wardens of prisons?  
  

Universities like Harvard and Yale and others have diversity departments counting the heads of minorities to meet federal guidelines of diversity so that those seats of higher education can continue to receive federal monies. 

Wouldn’t you be offended if you were admitted to Harvard ahead of another person just because of the color of your skin rather than your ability to read, and the fact that you beat the daylights out of all the White and Asian kids in math classes.  But you made it in because you were assigned an additional 20 points on your application because of the color of your skin. 

You should be offended.  

Soon, you’ll be getting a knock on your door by an ACORN rep asking you to detail out your census information for the bureaucrats in Washington to have something to do.   All they should be asking is how many people live in your dwelling.   The rest is bull.  Thinking about it, I should insist on placing myself under a new category called "Swedish-American".

Read the columns of Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Star Parker.

Another problem with the African-American label is not all people of African ancestry are dark. Whites are roughly 10 percent of Africa’s population and include not only European settlers but Arabs and Berbers as well. So is an Afrikaner who becomes a U.S. citizen a part of United States’ African-American population? Should census takers and affirmative action/diversity bean counters count Arabs, Berbers and Afrikaners who are U.S. citizens as African-Americans and should they be eligible for racial quotas in college admittance and employment?    Race Talk by Walter Williams.

When this nonsense stops, then the country will see a resurgence of minorities excelling and creating real competition based on abilities and hard work.  That would be color blindness, the rest of this stuff is still simply racist.

Tell me this is not happening right here in the US of A.   Our House of representatives with 435 elected members from the 50 states have decided to change the rules a bit.  No debates.  No amendments.  No back talk allowed.    Go sit in the corner and suck your thumb for being a bad boy and disrupting the process of creating change during a crisis.

Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, said in an interview on The Washington Times’ morning radio show "America’s Morning News" that Mrs. Pelosi and the Democratic majority had recently authorized an unprecedented change in House rules to curb the right of the minority to offer amendments to appropriations spending bills.

The debate over the new rules governing how bills are dealt with sparked a bitter partisan clash in the House last week.

Democrats say the restrictions are needed to ensure Congress has the time to pass a dozen individual spending bills in the next few months to fund the government, while lawmakers also deal with health care and energy reform. Mr. King and other Republicans charge the rules violate the House’s traditions for debate and are meant to protect Democrats from politically embarrassing votes.   Washington Times.

Well. . . who has the time to read the 1000 plus page bills anyway?   Hey, a republican might pull a fast one and insert an amendment in the bill that no one has time to read.   A republican might say something like "where is the transparency that was promised"?   A conservative might say: "Is the public going to have 72 hours to read these bills on line before a vote is taken?"    What’s the rush?

A democrat might pull a fast one and shut down all debate so that the really important ones of cap and trade and health care reform get the green light.  

Hmm.  The democrats have already done the same as Iran . . . crush the opposition.   Shut ‘em up. 

Now why am I not surprised?   Why?    Why would a huge humongous federal agency like the Environmental Protection Agency squash it’s own studies?  The agency is responsible to the people of the US.  We foot their bills.   Without the taxes that we just ordinary citizens are coerced out of, this agency would be toast.   Or would it?   I seem to have had a moment of forgetfulness regarding the roles of government agencies, which is simply . . . sustainability.  

Washington, D.C., June 24, 2009—The Competitive Enterprise Institute today charged that a senior official of the U.S. Environment Protection Agency actively suppressed a scientific analysis of climate change because of political pressure to support the Administration’s policy agenda of regulating carbon dioxide.

Hmm.  Those are serious charges.   Those are serious accusations.

A copy of the letter to the EPA is here, which also includes copies of the internal e-mails about the suppressed scientific analysis.

Hey, there’s been plenty of scientific information floating around by leading scientists that do not kick in with the Gore, the IPCC and the rest of the "believers" in fiction.   But all that information is suppressed too.  It’s all made light of.  It’s all kissed off as simply denials.   The 500 plus people, scientists, educators, reporters, policy professionals and gee whiz, people with real PHD’s after their names, gathered together in 2008 at the Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel for the International Conference on Climate Change, do not agree with the stance of the IPCC about global warming.   Nor, would they support the EPA findings that lead to declaring that the increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide needs to be regulated under the Clean Air Act.

The conclusion of the ICCC.

Despite the opposing opinions, virtually all in attendance agreed on the central point that the climate does change and has been changing throughout history. It will continue to change and virtually nothing man can do will change that for good–or bad. In short, there is no crisis.

So then why is the Obama administration going ahead with plans to regulate carbon dioxides and implement regulations upon industry after industry, businesses large and small, citizens large and small, rich or poor, and farm animals as well.   Why?   Government control.   Power. Tyranny.  You see, we should all live equally diverse under the same size trees.  And then all will be well . . . no wars, no racial turmoil, no gender disparities, no religious squabbles, no fusses, no greedy bastards excelling above anyone else.

The mayor and the citizens of the small Oklahoma town of Perkins(population 2572) were excited when they heard of the $1.445 million from a federal stimulus grant was coming their way.   They’ve been wanting and planning for a new wastewater treatment plant, which would have cost the town $5.26 million.   But now that the federal stimulus funds are coming, the cost of the project goes up to $7.2 million.  

You see, there are strings attached to taking money from the federal government.  

Now the citizens will have to fork over another $400,000 to get the plant and that results in the utilities rates being raised 60% and the residents are . . . . well, upset about it all.

Another boondoggle example of the stimulus money waste is in another area of Oklahoma, out there in the panhandle, where a lake was built but there is no water in the lake.  But guess what.  The Army Corps of Engineers want to spend $1.15 million in federal stimulus money to construct a new guardrail for the lake that does not exist.

The Army Corps website paints an unflattering picture:
“The water level in the lake has never reached normal
pool. Visitors should be aware that the lake’s level can
be very low. Depending on rainfall and evaporation
rates, the lake may offer no water-based recreation and
may not be suitable for swimming, fishing, boating or
other activities. Visitors should come for the quiet
natural setting-with or without water in the lake area.

The guard rail is to protect the hand full of visitors who come to view the foul.

Senator Tom Coburn has picked out the top 10 projects across the country wasting federal stimulus monies in this report "100 Stimulus Projects: A Second Opinion."

2. FutureGen: The Stimulus Earmark that Wasn’t, Becomes the Costliest Pork Project in History

3. Little-Used “Shovel-Ready” Bridges in Rural Wisconsin Given Priority Over Widely Used Structurally Deficient Bridges.
4. $800,000 for little-used Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport to repave a back-up runway; the “Airport for Nobody” Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer dollars

5. $3.4 Million for Wildlife “Eco-Passage” in Florida; Project Still May Take Years to Finish
6. Nevada Non-Profit Gets Weatherization Contract After Being Fired For Same Work
8. Taxpayers Taken for a Ride: Nearly $10 Million to be Spent to Renovate a Century Old Train Station that Hasn’t Been Used in 30 Years

9. Ten Thousand Dead People Get Stimulus Checks, Social Security Administration Blames a Tough Deadline
10. Town of Union, New York, Encouraged to Spend Money It Did Not Request For a Homelessness Problem It Does Not Have

And now, we are told the majority of American people want the federal government to get into the Health Care business, and we the people are about to get an environmental package as well.   These two community organization projects of the Obama administration over the years will slowly change the way everything, and I mean everything, is done in this country.   Inch by inch anything’s a cinch.  A crisis is the time to create an opportunity for change. 

As Al Gore has done, he envisioned a plan, then he created a crisis situation, and then he announced the plan to deal with the crisis, and the people see and accept the plan as a way out of his created crisis. 

Now Ford, Nissan and Tesla are getting, what is called loans, from the federal government to retool their plants so they can manufacture sustainable automobiles to meet the EPA requirements of the newly improved CAFE standards of 35 mpg vehicles.

"Nissan (NSANY) said the $1.6 billion loan would be used to modify its Smyrna plant to produce zero-emissions vehicles and lithium-ion battery packs to power them. The Japanese company has previously outlined plans to develop an all-electric car with 100 miles of pure battery range for release in late 2010.

"This loan is an investment in America. It will help us put high-quality, affordable zero-emissions vehicles on our roads," said Dominique Thormann, Nissan North America’s senior vice president for administration and finance."

"Mulally said the loans Ford would receive from the Energy Department were part of a government-industry partnership and "had nothing to do with the emergency loans to keep General Motors and Chrysler in business."

Ford has said it intends to bring several battery-electric vehicles to market. The automaker has discussed plans to produce a battery-electric vehicle van in 2010 for commercial use, a small battery-electric sedan developed with Magna International by 2011 and a plug-in hybrid vehicle by 2012."

"Tesla, based in San Carlos, Calif., will use $365 million for production engineering and the assembly of the Model S sedan, an all-electric vehicle that is expected to travel up to 300 miles per charge and go on sale in 2011. It will use $100 million for a powertrain manufacturing plant expected to employ 650 workers."

Exciting isn’t it?  The federal government is now in the loan business.   The federal government is now in the business of running the automotive industry.   The federal government is now in the business of business.  If you can accept these changes as proper and prudent for the federal government, then you must also accept any future intrusion and so-called "loans" by the federal government to privately owned and operated retail chains, restaurant operations, home builders, private contractors or what have you.   They’re already operating our schools that need reform.   They’ve never finished the war on poverty, nor the war on drugs which need additional funding each and every year to continue paying bureaucrats to fight those wars.

The strange part of all of these changes is that very few are asking where in the US Constitution does it provide for the federal government to make loans to US and/or foreign private businesses, since Nissan is a Japanese company.  The media does not ask.  Very few, if any, of our republican representatives are asking.  Judges are not voicing their concern. 

The constitution then is a living breathing organism ready for anything the powers that be in power at the time may desire for the "public good".  And in this case for the health of the planet (a planet that does not need a human doctor to run properly).