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So, a year into Dear Leader's Reader's presidential term and we find that the whole "Hopey Changey" 'thang' was a bait and switch scheme from the jump.

 

While it should be no surprise that the most un-American of our Presidents - un-American being defined as having the least amount of shared experiences with the rest of us - would have a different view of what is right for our country, it is shocking to see how he is seeking to remake our country into a radical vision he learned elsewhere.

Perhaps this vision-quest for social justice was inculcated in a madrassa in Indonesian where he grew up as a young boy or maybe - by his own admission - transferred from is marxist professors in college or just fixed in his mind while sitting in the pews as a member of Rev Wright's congregation. This version of social justice is not at all what or Founders envisioned!

 

Our founders envisioned a "shinning city on a hill" where freedoms and the blessings of those freedoms were derived from God - not from Government! And while life outcomes might not be assured, at least we could all start the race from the same starting line. Now, as we remove God from our social and political discourse, we are moving toward a tyranny where what was once assured to us by God is now being stolen by an ever expanding central government to mete out at it's own capricious and arbitrary whims. "A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you have."

 

The dirty little secret is, that the guv'ment is "sharing" dollars that belong to someone else.  Our guv'ment has NO MONEY.  In order for our politicians to give money to someone, they must first take it from someone else. This means that for every "public" dollar shared to accomplish a faux vision of social justice, that dollar must be confiscated from someone who created in the private sector as a fruit of their own labor.

If the European model of social justice is implemented, we can certainly get an immediate Q.E.D on how that has been working out for the last 40 years! Persistent unemployment always over 10%; and for those that have jobs, wages about 33% less than in America; and a reduced standard of living with much less discretionary spending. So for those on WIC, Welfare and raking in the other unearned "entitlements" your discretionary spending for 'rims', cellphones, flat screens and unfettered entertainment is directly paid for by those that have jobs! If we move to a  "social justice" scheme where we have fewer people working. If fewer people are working, then there will be less, less for everyone.

 

Freedom the real Social Justice - ... "is never more than a Generation away from Extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." source   Will you let Freedom die - on your watch?

Watching the scenes of destruction from the Haitian earthquake has left me, like everyone else, deeply saddened at the loss of life and intense suffering of an already destitute Haitian population.  I'm sure you would be hard pressed to find a poorer country than Haiti.

The outpouring of aid from around the world has been staggering.  The United States, of course in the forefront of that assistance, has sent untold millions of dollars in food, water and temporary shelter in addition to military troops to help maintain order.  The aid sent by the US government does not include the millions of dollars donated by hard-working Americans.  Even those having a hard time financially have not shirked from their Christian responsibility. Facts bear out that Americans are the most generous on earth.

So it really ticked me off to see a CNN video showing a Haitian minister preaching to his flock that it was the "white man's fault" that Haiti wasn't recovering quickly enough from this natural disaster.  For those of you ignorant of the country's demographics, I'm compelled to point out the obvious:  Haiti is not a country governed by white people.  It is a country of blacks; governed by blacks and controlled by blacks.  So which white people are to blame for the disastrous economy; the failing infrastructure that contributed to the deaths of more than 150,000 Haitians or the inability of the Haitian government to cope with this horrendous disaster?  Because the only white people involved here are the ones coming to the aid of Haiti.  That would be you and me.

I, for one, have suffered through decades of being called a racist because I don't think people, white, black, or otherwise, should be given free food, free housing, free utilities, a free cell phone, a free car or a monthly check for sitting on their duff doing nothing.  News flash:  I'm not responsible for your upkeep just because you happened to be born.  That's not my fault.

I hear people talk about the black culture all the time and how the white man is destroying it.  Well, I have news for you, rap music and basketball are not part of black culture; wearing your baseball hat backwards and your oversize pants halfway down your rear end are not part of black culture; living in government-subsidized housing riddled with crime is not black culture. Calling each other  "nigger" is not black culture.  Doing poorly in school is not black culture.  Calling your woman a "ho" is not black culture.  Using crack cocaine is not part of black culture.  And letting Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson pimp your vote to politicians who keep you mired in mediocrity is not black culture. 

Black culture is none of these things.  It's hard work, and family.  It's responsibility, and charity.  It's a belief in the traditional values that made this nation great.  Black culture is not different than white culture.  In the end, it's just an American culture.  Even though the government has perverted our ideals, we all grew up in the same country, believing in the same values, the same laws and the same way of life.  We all want the same things.  A great American, Martin Luther King, understood it better than anyone.  He didn't want special treatment for blacks.  He wanted equal treatment, but we've gone beyond that and in doing so have destroyed the black communities that once thrived in America.  Black Americans have been so instrumental to the success of this experiment we call America.  Without the contributions of black Americans, we would be a poorer nation.  And I'm not just measuring dollars and cents.

Since Roe v Wade we have aborted millions of black children.  Supporters of abortion rights, traditionally liberals, are the same ones calling conservatives racist for not agreeing with their political icons; never seeing their own hypocrisy for their support of killing black babies and the destruction of the black family structure.

Black children continue to be forced to attend failing public schools.  Our inner city schools are crowded and although the amount of money spent on public education escalates each year, the quality of that education continues to decline.  Black children, particularly males, are dropping out of school in record numbers.  They're doomed to a life of failure, or worse yet:  prison.  And it's the ever-compassionate liberals who see the solution is to force blacks to stay in the same failing schools, but of course, to send more money to the failing schools.  All of which hasn't done a darned thing except create a population of idiots.  It seems to me that is exactly what our politicians want.  If you're too stupid to understand what they are doing, then you will just continue to vote for them.  It makes their job so much easier--and profitable.

Have you ever heard a liberal vote for the one program that would drastically change the future for those black children?  In case you don't know what that is, have you ever heard of school vouchers?  Unless you've paid attention, probably not.  The media ignores the problems of education, unless of course they want to report on some callous conservative who refuses to inject more taxpayer dollars into a failing and corrupt educational system that concerns itself with the interests of educators rather than students. 

A school voucher system is the one thing that will save our public school system and our children, no matter their color.  It will make schools accountable by increasing competition.  The same competition that creates new and improved manufactured goods at cheaper prices will create a new, improved and cheaper educational system.  But more importantly, it puts our children's future back in the hands of parents and takes it away from bureaucrats.  It's a shift of power.

That's something politicians fear.  And a government that fears you is a government that cannot abuse its power.

So keep voting for those liberals who espouse Martin Luther King's dream, yet use claims of racism to further their own agenda at every opportunity; keep voting for the handouts and freebies that every liberal believes it's your right to have; keep voting for the failing schools; the black-on-black crime-ridden neighborhoods; the drug-infested communities; the aborted babies; the ever-increasing number of young black men in prison.  Keep voting yourselves and your children into perpetual serfdom.   That's just the way the libs want it. 

And you thought slavery was dead?  Not hardly.  You've just traded one slave master for another.  Only this slave master doesn't sit on a plantation in South Carolina.  He sits in Washington, D.C.

Who's to blame?  Look in the mirror.  That's not whitey you see.

I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but what happened to the "climate change" that had taken the world by storm (no pun intended) a few weeks ago in Oslo?  Suddenly the guru of global warming has sequestered himself in his 10,000 square foot estate in Tennessee and is trying to keep himself toasty as the whole world digs itself out of record snowfalls.

Where in the world is Al Gore?  The inconvenient truther has fallen off the radar and our fourth estate, you know, the "investigative" reporters who are supposed to be looking out for the best interests of we the people, have conveniently forgotten about the chief protagonist of man-made global warming. 

The earth is experiencing one of the coldest winters in a quarter of a century and the Gore supporters are nowhere to be found.  China is enveloped in record setting cold and snow.  The American Midwest is getting slammed with heavy snow and wind chills of 50 below zero.

.....And where in the world is Al Gore?

Cold weather has sent a record number of people to hospitals for treatment for exposure.  They've had 22 deaths from unusual cold in England.  A satellite photo of the British Isles two days ago showed what appeared to be thick cloud cover enveloping the whole of Great Britain.  It was actually snow.  England, Ireland and Scotland were completely covered in snow!

.....And where in the world is Al Gore?

Atlanta, Georgia, considered the Deep South, got up to an inch of snow and is expecting more.  Orlando, Florida, which is even deeper south has been experiencing below freezing temperatures for several days and is expected to see snow today.  The land of Mickey Mouse and palm trees is not supposed to get snow.  Just ask the citrus industry if they would rather have global warming or a new ice age.  Not much of choice there.

.....And where in the world is Al Gore?

President Barack Hussein Obama seems intent on putting the United States closer to bankruptcy.  His support for the Oslo Climate Change Summit will redistribute the wealth of America, in some misguided attempt to make up for America's so-called sin of using more than it's share of the world's resources.   Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has pledge $100 billion to third world countries to atone for America's success at making the world a safer and better place to live.

.....And where in the world in Al Gore?

Take my advice Mr. Gore, if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.  Or in this case, stay right where you are, there's another blizzard headed right your way.

(h/t Greta Perry)

Unless you're living on some secluded island in the South Pacific or spend all of your time watching Dancing With The Stars, you're probably aware of the Copenhagen Con that is going on this week in the land that gave us the Vikings (not to be confused with the NFL team), prune danishes, and the cartoon of the prophet Mohammed, which inflamed followers of the religion of peace and caused worldwide riots that killed a couple of dozen rioters.  I wonder if that qualifies them for martyrdom and their 72 virgins?  Sorry, an ADD moment.

Our president has gone to the Danish capital to attend the "global climate change summit" that promotes the position that mankind (read The United States) is destroying the earth and it (re-read The United States) must atone for its (re-re-read The United States) sins against humanity (read the rest of the world.)  To that end President Barack Hussein Obama will be asked to sign a treaty that will cost the American economy trillions of dollars and maybe, just maybe lower the temperature of the earth by less than a quarter of a degree in the next twenty years.

The ugly culprit, we are being told by the experts, is carbon dioxide.  You know good old CO2 is causing our earth to boil.  The claim is that CO2 levels are unacceptable and we must lower them.

Okay, here's what I don't understand.  From 1890 to 1936 there were actually higher concentrations of CO2 on earth than there are now.  How do we know, you ask?  Scientists can actually look at tree rings and get that kind of historical record.  Yet, the earth was cooler at that time; a time when there were far fewer people, far fewer automobiles and far less heavy industry.  

Also, there have been multiple times throughout history where the earth's temperature has been much hotter than now.  The last being the medieval warming period as outlined in the graph below:


 

Comparison between the change in the global temperature (red line), the Carbon Dioxide Concentration (blue line), and the sample tree ring (green line) from 800 AD to 2005 (AD). As you can see, what took only 150 years during the Medieval Period of Global Warming has taken 200 years in our Industrial Era. This means that the current Global Warming is rising SLOWER than during the Medieval Age. Besides, our Global Warming is LOWER than that of the Medieval Period. A further characteristic is that the warmest phase in the Medieval Period lasted about 190 years, whereas the warmest period of the contemporary Global Warming lasted merely 3 years (from 1997 to 1998), with its highest point in 1998. This evidence demonstrates that the Global Warming is a cyclic natural phenomenon. THE GRAPHS PUBLISHED IN BIOCAB'S WEBSITE ARE AUTHENTIC, ACCORDING TO THE REFERENCED SOURCES, WHICH CAN BE COLLATED TO VERIFY THEIR EXACTITUDE AND VERACITY. WE HAVE NOT MODIFIED DATA NEITHER HAVE FLAWED THE DATA.

As you can see, between the years 900 and 1000 AD the earth's temperature was much warmer than today and carbon dioxide concentrations were about half of what they are now.  Now I'm not the brightest bulb in the socket, but I'm pretty sure there were no SUVs around in 900 AD.  Neither was there any industry to speak of and the population of the earth was around 250 million.  All of them, at one time or another, respiring (breathing for those of you in public school.)  As you can also see, over 80% of the 20th century's carbon dioxide increase occurred after 1940, but most of the century's temperature increase occurred before 1940!

In case you're wondering about that evil carbon dioxide, it comes from many different sources.  It isn't limited to just coal fired power plants and automobiles.  That little pop you hear every time you open a can of Coca-Cola is CO2 (in the form of carbonic acid) escaping.  Contrary to what the EPA is telling us now, carbon dioxide does not threaten life on earth.  Quite the contrary, CO2 is NECESSARY to life on earth.

Every plant needs CO2 to exist.  It is what plants eat.  It's necessary for photosynthesis so that plants can live.  Plants then give off oxygen so that humans can breath.  Food crops are also plants and if we want to eat we better not fool with Mother Nature.  It's a symbiotic relationship.  Kind of like the Service Employees International Union's symbiotic relationship with President Barack Hussein Obama.  It donated $60 million to his presidential campaign and now SEIU president Andy Stern gets to visit The White House every week and "advise" our president as to which legislation will benefit his union.  That's symbiosis at its finest.

So can we, or should we endeavor to rid the world of excess carbon dioxide?  First we have to understand that 97% of all carbon dioxide comes from nature itself.  Only 3% comes from human activity.  Termites alone emit ten times more CO2 than all the factories and automobiles in the whole world!  Do you think we can kill several trillion termites?  I doubt it.

CO2 only accounts for about 0.035% of our atmosphere and yet we are told that this greenhouse gas is causing global warming.  It's NOT the only greenhouse gas.  Water vapor accounts for at least 95% of any greenhouse effect.  What are we going to do, drain the Pacific Ocean?

Let's get this straight, this is not about saving the planet.  It's about redistributing the wealth of The United States of America.  But, when you think about it, haven't we distributed enough of enough of our wealth already.  How about the half-million men America lost in World Wars I and II?  Were these best and brightest not the greatest wealth of our nation?  And what about the hundreds of billions of dollars America has spent over the past several decades preserving liberty, coming to the aid of nations wracked by natural disasters, and contributing to the impoverished nations wallowing in starvation, disease and destitution?  And let me point out, those billions are only what our government gave away.  Private donations from hard working Americans added billions more.  No people on earth are as generous as Americans; and you can take that to the bank!

I think we've redistributed enough of our wealth.  It's time we got our own house in order.  In fact, it's long overdue.

It's just amazing to me that these Blutocrats (so named for the bully that was Popeye's nemesis) converging in Denmark, keep extolling the virtues of going green and rail against the use of fossil fuels, have seen fit to show up in 140 private jet aircraft and are being chauffeured around town in 1200 limousines.  In fact, the Danes have had to import limos from neighboring countries because there aren't enough of them in Denmark.  That's some carbon footprint don't you think?  But, as usual, it's "do as I say and not as I do" from the intelligentsia who think they know how to run our lives better than we do.

Isn't this the same mentality that inspired Marie Antoinette to mutter "Let them eat cake!" when referring to the starving Frenchie Frenchmen before they chopped off her head?

It wouldn't surprise me to hear "Let them eat ice cream!" from one of the self-appointed saviors of the world in Copenhagen.  I'm just wondering when the governees will tell the governors, "Go to hell!" and throw the scoundrels out of office.

I just hope that happens before guillotines become fashionable again.
 

It looks like the guru of global warming has bumped into a little inconvenient fact:  some scientists who have made millions of dollars from the global warming scam got caught with their fingers in the proverbial cookie jar.

Now it looks like the savior of our non-endangered polar bear population has gone into hibernation himself.  After The University of East Anglia's head of climate research Phil Jones' emails exposed him for what he truly is:  a political hack who sees the climate change agenda as just another "crisis we can't let go to waste," Al Gore has cancelled a speech that he was due to give in Copenhagen citing, "scheduling conflicts."

Why do I have a feeling that there will be more "scheduling conflicts" in the days to come?  The bombastic ex-Vice-President has refused to testify before Congress if Lord Monckton, his British nemesis, was allowed to give an opposing viewpoint to Gore's apocalyptic inventions; he steadfastly refuses to debate anyone on the subject of global warming and one reporter who attended an event staged for sympathetic media, who had the temerity to question Gore's  theories, had his microphone shut off and was escorted out of the meeting.  So much for the inconvenient truth.

Unfortunately, for Al Gore, the only thing that's inconvenient is that he got caught in a big fat lie.  

To borrow a line from "Friends"; Al just how many cameras have you got on you?  

Because those lies you've been spreading have increased your girth exponentially.

And where is the so-called "Mainstream Media" in all this?  None of the major networks have done any in depth reporting on this.  Some have not even mentioned it.  I guess they're too busy reporting the real news.  You know, like having a helicopter hover over a mall on Black Friday so we can see all the shoppers lined up looking for bargains.  Yeah, that really affects our lives, don't you think?

If we can only get the media to do its job, we may actually save trillions of American taxpayer dollars and keep our nation out of the hands of the one-world government types who seek the destruction of America.

I don't think The New York Times is what Thomas Jefferson envisioned when he advocated for a free press being essential to protecting citizens from the tyranny of a government gone wild.  The "Guardians of Truth" no longer exist in what has become the fringe media; and that's more than inconvenient.  

It's a crime.