Very interesting perspective on what has happened to the leftist movement in the 20th and 21st century.

Mises Daily: Friday, December 11, 2009 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

It might take a while to sink in, but the global-warming cause is on the skids. Two issues are taking the whole project down: it is getting cooler not warmer (and hence the change of the rhetoric to a vague concern over “climate change”); the email scandal of a few weeks back proved that this really is an opinion cartel with preset views not driven by science.

Oh sure, people are saying that climategate is not really very serious and is only being exploited by Fox News and the like. And it’s true that not all measures of global temperature show cooling and that the science can be complex.

On that basis, the New York Times urges us to ignore the outpouring:

It is also important not to let one set of purloined e-mail messages undermine the science and the clear case for action, in Washington and in Copenhagen.

Yes, a clear case. Come on. The whole political agenda of these people is now being seriously questioned. It is no longer a slam-dunk case that we are going to have world central planning in order to control the climate and protect the holy earth from the effects of industrialization. Oh, and tax us good and hard in the process.

Here in the Orlando, Florida area we suffered like the rest of the nation at the hands of ACORN voter registration drives and general disenchantment with former President Bush’s policies. Both our local republican candidates lost seats to democrats. One of the pick ups was the now infamous Alan Grayson in Florida’s 8th congressional district. The other candidate is the exact opposite in personality; I refer to her as “the mouse”, Suzanne Kosmas (D) in the 24th district. Fortunately 2008 will turn into 2010 and we the people have a chance to get some representation against Obama for at least for a couple of years before reapportionment of congressional seats occurs in 2012.

Todd Long Republican candidate for Florida’s 8th congressional district

I personally am involved with libertarians and all the infighting of party politics so I can only imagine the headaches that occur on a bigger scale. These people present a very pleasant outward image but if their party politics are anything like the libertarians it surly must be some nasty infighting going on. God bless them for sacrificing financially and putting up with the additional obligations coming their way.

As examples of getting to know the candidates by simply paying attention here are a few:

Candidate X is constitutionally conservative in the mold of the founding fathers. He ALWAYS attends parades, holds fundraisers open to the public, makes time to communicate by phone, in person, e-mail to anyone interested in his platform. He is always available to explain a position to the news media or citizens. He believes in limited federal involvement and prefers the states and local governments deal with social engineering programs including entitlements.

Dan Fanelli Republican candidate for Florida’s 8th congressional district

Candidate Z is a staunch republican. Z believes in social entitlement programs. Z is more business like and formal. Very conventional positions. A very reliable person of integrity but not one to think outside the box. Maybe a Reagan conservative but that might be stretching it some.

And there ten months before the election you have a real feel for the candidates running. Obviously candidate Z is the safe bet. Candidate Y is eliminated right away. If this person can’t make the rounds in a primary what will they be like in Washington? Sorry.

Candidate Z in another time before our national debt was $12.2 trillion with an economy of $14.4 (85%!) might be the preferred candidate but sorry not in today’s world. With unfunded liabilities of $106,514,122,657,391 I don’t want a candidate that will not go after Social Security and Medicare. More of the same is not good enough. Clearly candidate X is the best choice for my district and the country.

Karen Diebel Republican candidate for Florida’s 24th congressional district

I truly believe if more people got involved and meet their representative at these events both the people and representative would have a greater respect for each other. It’s just sad when a major candidate for congress or the senate has a event open to the public and there are maybe 20 people there. Get out there and let them know what you really think!

I heard something the other day on TV about a poll taken on those who claim they are liberal. It was under 20% as I recall. I had to laugh because word has circulated the net about Lyle Rossiter’s book ‘The Liberal Mind’ The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.

For those of you not familiar with Rossiter he is an acclaimed forensic psychiatrist. His book has been published for over a year now.

Is it any wonder liberals have bailed from the definition?
Now they are progressives. Liberals do not change their spots but they are at least smart enough to change their name.

The definition remains the same.
So from all of this we need to realize that those running our government are not only corrupt they are also mentally ill.

Who would have guessed?

Interesting video on soda pop from an expert

This would be drop dead funny if it were not so serious.

How stupid is it to raise your credit card limit when you have maxed out your income?

Apparently those in congress failed 4th grade math.
What don’t they understand … if they took 100% of every single Fortune 500 company’s profits each year, it would take 145 years to pay off our debt (not counting the intrest due)?

Here we the people sit having no say in the matter.
UNTIL 2010 & 2012 when we would ALL BE SMART to vote every person who voted for this outrageous behavior OUT OF OFFICE.

One would think this man would learn his lesson and take care of what rolls out of his mouth.
Is he simply ignorant or a liar?
Does he honestly think everyone is to stupid to know what is going on in the world?

Every time I see Al Gore in the news talking about global warming I laugh and say YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING. Poor Andrea Mitchell for having to endure his endless rap of the same old rhetoric.

He does not seem the slightest concerned that his buddies (the top Global Warming scientists) have been caught with their pants down about ‘hiding’ evidence and using ‘tricks’ to manipulate the science to exaggerate rising temperatures.

It does not surprise me much that Gore continues to carry on with this corruption sham.

After all birds of a feather you know?

By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVE ON ad about Sarah Palin.

The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.

2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES.” Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork.” She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning – I imagine – that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started… This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.

6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to return to AK after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

There was an insignificant protest both for and against “health care reform” at Lake Eola in beautiful downtown Orlando. Florida on 12-8-09. It was at 7:00 PM on a Tuesday night. Much too early in the week for the regular working folks to take much interest in. The cool people don’t show up for political events until Thursday at the earliest. And if the protest doesn’t involve a plane ticket to DC then maybe for the beautiful people it really isn’t an event worth participating in. But there was a protest Tuesday next to beautiful Lake Eola in downtown Orlando in front of Florida Senator Bill Nelson’s office at Landmark Two, 225 East Robinson Street across from our gorgeous lake. It did take place and it was real for the peasants.

Pro Health Care Reform protesters at Lake Eola

Was this the demonic opposition camp? I stopped and listened to a young black man poring out his soul to the crowd with every ounce of strength and passion he had. He looked like a Jamaican Bob Marley type but from his dialect it was immediately clear he was as American as I was. Behind him seated at a table where members of what I guessed was a local church. Mother, daughter and father looked at the young preacher delivering his sermon waiting eagerly to assist in any way possible. As I listened to this young man pour out his soul to the audience I felt ashamed. He was not there to preach about health care or some other politicians’ cares but to deliver the word of God to these homeless men and women in our mist. Even though I never said a word I felt like apologizing to the man and the crowd right then and there. I was there for a political game and this man was trying to comfort the homeless and helpless as they face another night without food and shelter. God please forgive me for prejudging this man. I walked silently away absorbed in shame.

I arrived at 225 East Robinson Street on the east side of the lake and on the west side were the anti health care protesters. I was immediately questioned if I was for or against “heath care reform”. I told them I was a Libertarian and was against it. They breathed a sigh of relief and asked me where my sign was. I told them I forgot my “Don’t Tread on Me” flag that had flown over Washington DC on 9-12 so they assured me that they had an extra sign for me. Maybe they didn’t hear that I was a Libertarian the first time?

The “Move On” crowd on the opposite side of the street had maybe 30 people. We had eight. I quickly moved over to the “Move On” side of the street and took some pictures of this occasion and quickly scuttled back. One of the things that always strike you at these events is the smell of alcohol on both sides of these off Broadway protest. Seems to make the event more interesting.

Our side accused the other side of paying their protesters. Maybe this was true maybe not but we were both kind of peeved to be on a sidewalk on a beautiful Tuesday night in downtown Orlando screaming at each other. Maybe they were paid and maybe we were not but either way this was going to end in one hour not two. Let the union pick up the other three hours of the four hour minimum.

We got down to business yelling slogans at each other. “Health care now”. “Socialism now”. “We want health care now”. “What do we want?” “Health care now!” “Socialism”. “Fascism”. “Communism.” And so the idiotic diatribe went as planned. If Senator brain dead old fart ex astronaut Bill Nelson had a video feed he surly went to sleep after the second rendition of the back and forth. One of “our” guys had a megaphone. They didn’t. To bad for them. Get a job and buy one next time. So our guy had the amazing technology in his hand able to replicate with volume their more intense shout downs. Hey who ever said numbers count never fought a real battle.

As the night wore on the insane slogans wore on and became boring to even the most partisan among the bunch. We actually began yelling coherent sentences at each other like “there will be a $1,000 dollar fine if you don’t buy health insurance.” “Who do you think will go to jail?” “I would gladly go to jail for health insurance”. Most of the zombies regurgitated the party slogans from the left and right with no thought. As the yelling went back and forth one of the opposition smart guys accused the Republicans of blowing up the budget deficit!

And I agreed.

I said “Yes the Republicans are guilty and so are the democrats” or something to that effect. Gasp! The Republican next to me immediately stood up to me and read me the riot act. “Do you want to be over here or over there?” “Get over there if you want to be on their side!” Did these guys not hear me when I told them I was a Libertarian? Guess not.

One of their guys on the other side was actually a thinker and he asked for what reform we “Republicans” would push for to make health care more affordable. I told him “repeal the anti trust exemption for insurance companies” referring to the FDR era McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1944. He was thinking but didn’t know how to respond. Of course he didn’t. Like all thinking Americans he has been manipulate with misinformation from his political party. Same as the Republicans with their supporters and their equally narrow minded crap.

The Republicans on my side of the street looked at me like they wished they could pummel me. Maybe with three of them they could. The other side looked on in awe as they saw division in the opposition ranks of only eight opponents! The majority of idiots thought this was great but the 10% on the other side had to wonder why there was division in the ranks. Maybe someday they will break out of the lock step of fascism and learn about the politicians money grab for health care. Maybe? Maybe not. There is always hope.

By the end of the protest both sides pretty much despised me. Libertarian and proud of it. Always alone against the majority. So sayeth the lord.

This brings me to the saddest part of the protest. All this time while I was arguing over the $1,000 fine that would be imposed on those who didn’t have health insurance. I was thinking of those homeless souls at the south east section of the park praying to our lord. Am I a religious man? No, but I know Gods mercy when I see it. Do I crumble before God? Of course I do. I am nothing before God like the entire human race is nothing at the hour of judgment. We all die and it doesn’t matter in the end if you dined at Bennigan’s or had a peanut butter and jelly from the Church of Christ. We all die sooner or later. I realized these homeless people in the south east section of Lake Eola would be the first ones to end up in jail under Obama’s health care “reform” bill. Just as the elites in Washington DC envisioned. No justice for the poor.

Some beautiful young lady, “big boned” with an eastern European genetic blend in there somewhere came over to our side. She claimed to be a graduate from the University of Florida. She asked me and others on the “opposition” side rhetorical questions. Her mother was 62 years old and needed insurance. When I suggested getting a federal, state, local government or privet sector job she dismissed it. When I suggested as a business owner getting a health saving account she dismissed it again. When I told her I was forming a company in January and I would hire her mother if she was good at secretarial work she insisted her mother was unqualified because she was a psychologist or something. Finally I gave up. Clearly she was a tape recorder looking to capture “dumb” republicans making stupid comments for some political web site. Yea lady there are a lot of dumb comments on both sides but if you really graduated from the University of Florida you would understand catching dumb comments means nothing to anyone but dumb people. Maybe the University of Florida has the “cool” people but the University of Central Florida has people who think. I gave up and drove off.

In this health care debate what is lost on the left are the hundreds of thousands of homeless who will be thrown in jails for not paying their $1,000 fine. What is lost on the right is the injustice of the 1944 FDR anti trust exemption for the health insurance companies. Both are injustices brought about by both parties. Why do Republicans defend the insurance companies? Why do democrats defend a plan that would imprison hundreds of thousands of defenseless homeless people? Both parties are equally sick in the head and both parties need to be destroyed. So sayeth the people.

Apparently all of the bull being spouted about global warming is now proving to be a crock. Climategate has exposed science data as a fraud.

Not a big surprise! There will forever be someone trying to rip off the public for their own gain. This is just the latest example.

For many of us it was obvious with Al Gore. We have known for years anything that rolls from his lips is simply a lie.
Gore clearly did not do his homework on the Polar Bear bullcrap he tries to foist our way along with his documentary.
The polar bear is increasing not declining.
Why?
In 1973 the polar bear population was around 5,000 mostly because they were being hunted into extinction and today they range around 25,000 which is the highest level since their populations have been monitored. Hunting is now closely controlled.

There has NOT been a recent drop in the last 10 years due to any supposed “Global Warming”.

Polar bears are protected under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) since 1975. Appendix II includes species identified as threatened, or likely to become endangered if trade isn’t regulated.

Now we have the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Who will line their pockets with the solutions that come from all of this and what further tax of the American coffers will Obama promise on his visit?