Our government on many levels shows disdain for the public. We are sheep to be led to the slaughter. Or pawns for their schemes of the day. Or simply just means to their ends. These ends, subjective, ambiguous, shifting on a whim. A memo obtained today by CBS news in New York highlights the above, showing that Federal officials knew that the site of a jumbo jet lumbering about several hundred feet above Manhattan would create sheer panic. They knew this and then threatened sanctions against the NYPD, FBI, and the Mayor’s Office if they let this ‘flyover’ event be known beforehand to the public. What? No, folks this is not an error, the Federal Aviation Administration actually threatened sanctions against other branches of government if they warned the public. Outrageous? Idiotic? Insane?

The memo shows that the The flyover was ordered by the White House Office of Military Affairs for a ”Souvenir photo of Air Force One.” The Obamanation came out and said that it was ”a mistake and will never happen again.” I’m sure he didn’t know anything, right? He obviously thinks that Americans are absolutely stupid. For you folks in the press (for the most part), I would say this is correct. In a show of great statesmanship yesterday the Obamanation called for an internal investigation into what happened. This entire story simply just illustrates how different levels of our government in the US operate as a tax-funded cosa notra. ”If you squeal about the flyover, we’ll break your kneecaps.” They threatened sanctions!

And yet this isn’t a headline story for the Main Stream State Controlled Media. I didn’t see any of this on CNN, MSNBC, ABC and the local affiliates here in San Diego. It was all ”piggy-flu” mania, something the hyenas have all latched onto and not nearly the ‘crisis’ in my opinion that they are making it out to be.

I’ve done several posts about the British press lately, here’s one regarding tax legislation in the UK. High income earners, especially in the financial and banking sectors in Great Britain are eyeing the possibility of moving out of the country. Why? PM Gordon Brown’s Labour (liberal) Party’s recent proposal to boost income tax rates over $220,000.00 to 50%. Sound familiar fellow Americans? From the Bloomberg article above –

Earlier this week the Democrat leadership in the House announced that they would entertain the presence of some sort of ‘celebrity speaker’ on the global warming topic. This speaker was in regard to debate on the cap and trade legislation (the so-called ‘American Clean Energy and Security Act), taking place in the Committee on Energy and Commerce. That is a mouthful, stay with me dear reader, this is interesting.





When the minority Republicans heard of this ‘celebrity’ speaker they decided to invite a certain Lord Christopher Monckton of the UK, a renowned global-warming skeptic and great debater on the topic. Pictured left, he also served as Science Advisor to former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and is Chief Policy Adviser for the Science and Public Policy Institute in Britain. Click here for his point by point rebuttal of Al Gore’s movie . As I did more research on him this morning I found that he is a great defender of free markets and individual liberty. Once again, as in yesterdays post, I find the independent British as a clarion voice against the Statist ills thrust upon us in the United States. Click here for a great 10 minute lecture in which he debates many of the inaccurate claims of the global-warming cult in Britain.





As it were, word came out that the famed Albert Gore Junior would be the Democrats ‘mystery speaker’ (Oh my God, I’m shocked). Whilst Monckton was air-bound, Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, (pictured to the right), caught wind that Monckton would be the opposing speaker. Waxman and Democrats quickly rescinded the Republicans choice to debate Gore. Monckton’s plane arrived and he was shortly told thereafter that he would not be able to speak. Instead Newt Gingrich was ‘allowed’. Free speech, settled science? Who says the face of evil is not ugly, ( I’d say it is, confirmed in the picture above)?



So the hearings go on, Al Gore highlights his appearance by saying that people that question the validity of ‘global-warming’ are the Bernard Madoffs of the world (?!?). See for yourself below.





Now we come to Newt Gingrich and his rebuttal to Gore. He has some great points here, calling Gore’s assertions ”deeply misleading”, pointing out that U.S. energy reserves far outstrip Gore’s assertions, debunks Gore’s 20′ rise in seal level, and more below.

Now hold your stomach, here comes Waxman, as described above, the nostrilly version of Bald Batman. You’d think with that piggy-looking sniffer, he’d be able to smell the scam of global warming? Nostril Batman starts out here comparing Cap and Trade to the Clean Air Act. Definition of the Clean Air Act here. Clearly the Clean Air Act is an EPA regulatory law, vs a direct ‘carbon’ tax. Second grade knowledge here. He then accuses Newt of ”scare tactics”, “attacking democrats and the president”and then banters about on procedural rules on letting Gingrich rebut, eventually acquiescing. Then the whole enchilada here folks. At 2:55 Waxman lets the cat out of the bag so to speak. He clues us in to the entire Leftist agenda, the Obamanation, the Radicals that want to transform our country into a 3rd tier nation right in front of our eyes. “The 600+ billion tax increase in Obama’s budget is not a tax because it will be redistributed!” And there it is, I could have skipped this entire post and not bothered, if only I had just seen this right off the ‘bat’, no pun intended.

The New York Times? The San Francisco Chronicle? Washington Post? Stalwart defenders of free-speech, the Constitution and individual citizens? Not quite, unless you don’t mind liberal-statist proselytizing, gutter-level celebrity worship, urban-violence ambulance-chasing and general incompetence. Check my other blog entry on my pathetic interaction with the San Francisco Chronicle.

I find myself jettisoning the U.S. press and turning to the Politics section of the Daily Telegraph. Founded in London in 1855 (check picture to the left), and a voice of the Conservative party in Great Britain, the paper offers a unique personality and take on U.S. politics. Mind you I am not reading the print version so I cannot confess to smudgy-black fingertips. Nevertheless I love what I see here. There’s a certain air of London pub-chatter and punch throwing that good red-blooded Brits offer up. Has anyone seen a parliament debate from the UK? It’s almost as if the lawmakers arrive to debate after spending most of the day at the pub.

I came across a piece from Daniel Hannan, the man made famous amongst conservative circles a few weeks back with his tirade against PM Gordon Brown. Titled “If You Pay People to be Poor, You’ll Never run of of Poor People.” From this piece –
Poverty is not simply an absence of money. Rather, it is bound up with a whole set of other circumstances: lack of qualifications, demoralisation, family break-up, substance abuse, fatherlessness. It follows that you do not end poverty by giving money to the poor: a theory that British welfarism has amply demonstrated over 60 years. Only when you tackle poverty holistically will you facilitate meaningful improvement.

I come to another interesting author, a man by the name of Gerald Warner, the side note on him says,”If it is an exaggeration to say that he believes the world has gone to the dogs, it is only a slight hyperbole.” This is the British style of which I speak, great command of the English language.

His column today titled ”Barack Obama and the CIA: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?” Now that is a headline, can you imagine this in the NYT? Beginning of the piece – ”If al–Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the interests of his own people – not even Jimmy Carter.”
Clearly unfit to print in the U.S., it takes a boozy-brit to say it like this. Is our press so diluted as to not even see this? Does it take the vastness of the oceans separating us to clear the intellectual fog and cut to the chaste like this? Bravo Mr. Warner.

The close of his piece – ”President Pantywaist’s recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys, excited the ambitions of America’s enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans. Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so badly?”

You know that a political movement and identity reaches quasi-religion, (if not outright), status when a culture is permeated and saturated with this identity. From the Ivory Towers of academia, to elementary schools, from Saturday morning cartoons to prime-time news, our entire population is inundated with a daily assault of ‘green’, ‘carbon footprint’, ‘global warming’ propagandizing. Anyone notice the recent polling data that shows a third of children believe the earth will enter some sort of environmental apocalypse? The definition of religion according to the Webster Dictionary –

1. a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices
2. (archaic) : scrupulous conformity
3. a cause, principle or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

1. Attitudes – atoning for one’s sins via carbon credits, even the (seemingly) innocent concept of recycling. Beliefs – the ‘global warming’ mantra is clearly a faith or belief and in many ways not a ‘settled’ science. Remember Al Gore’s comments on the validity of ‘global warming’ being ”settled”. Not to mention his refusal to discuss and debate the scientific merits as with many of his ‘global warming’ peers. Faith, clear and simple. Practices – check above.
2. The archaic definition here, conformity. Any debate on the fact that if you disagree with the science in today’s ‘global warming’ debate that you are treated fairly? Holocaust denier ring a bell?
3. Causes, principles and systems held with ardor and faith – ‘Eco-defense’, ‘earth-liberation’, ‘global-warming’, ‘sustainable living’, ‘eco-terrorism’, ‘earth-day’ and many others.

So now that we have this out of the way, back to the title of this blog entry. The local am radio talk show host Chip Franklin here in San Diego quipped this morning that ‘earth-day mania’ had reached such a zenith and that the tv show “The Price is Right” had an earth-day special yesterday. If you watch the youtube video I posted you’ll note that Drew Carey quips at the beginning saying “Have you hugged the earth today, have you? Go out and hug the earth.” Knowing that Mr. Carey is a fellow Libertarian and interested in the cause of liberty, I laughed at this. He clearly had a besmirched look on his face. During this ‘green’ episode, contestants had the chance to win a hammock, and trip to Austria, a seemingly ungreen thing, the moderator said that ‘since it was ‘earth day’ that there would be a voluntary contribution to a carbon-footprint offsetting organization (pheww, that was close.) Also up for grabs were an electric bicycle, (pedalling is causing ‘global warming?), an electric-solar golf-cart(what if it’s not sunny on the course?), and a Toyota Prius.

I don’t want to read into this too much but come on, greenie Price is Right? Our culture has reached the saturation point with the environmental nonsense, frankly I’m tired of it. Does such a saturation level indicate a tipping point in which the public will be more suspect of the agenda? Hard to say but I think that we can see some of the public tide turning with ‘global warming.’ We have a lot of work to do.

Fidel Castro coming out today, angrily declaring that the Obamanation misinterpreted Raul Castro’s recent remarks that made it seem that Cuba may open up democratically. Of course our media here made it look like the sheer oozing charisma and brilliance of the Obamanation was going to be a game-changer regarding Cuba. And so everyone thought that Raul Castro meant it when he promised to “discuss human rights, freedom of the press and expression, and political prisoners on the island”

Sounds good, right? No such luck – a communist state web site posted an Essay from Hollywood’s president Castro (even more than the Obamanation), in which he shot down his brother’s softened stance as of late and poured cold water on the subject.

Maybe the White House will post this essay on their website and our Leader can respond to each of the most important points –

Castro – “My brother was Affirming that the president of Cuba is ready to discuss any topic with the president of the United States expresses that he’s not afraid to broach any subject.”

Obamanation -“We will not ask anything of you more than a photo-op, and if you want to rant and rave in my presence for an hour, I will sit idly by and ‘listen’. All international opinions are relative, hear about my new doggy?”

Castro – ”Nobody should assume that he was talking about pardoning those sentenced in March 2003 and sending all of them to the United States, if the country were willing to liberate the five Cuban anti-terrorist heroes.”

Obamanation – “No problem here, I’ll see if I can put these guys in Guantanamo right before we close it, that way I can immediately release them when we close and we can talk thereafter, sound good?”

Castro – “Obama is showing signs of superficiality” (read: my american counterpart isn’t quite meeting expectations)

Obamanation – “Brother Fidel, remember, patience is key, things must happen more slowly here in the U.S., keep your eyes to the sky.”

Truth is stranger than fiction.

The above is a chilling rebuttal of the “I’d like to meet with despotic dictators, shake their hands, get a book deal with them, and get photographed with an ear-to-ear grin with them” , aka the Obama Doctrine. Apparently this man is a certain Dr. Abdallah Al-Nafisi. A Cambridge educated poli science major that got his PHD at Cambridge. Of course he did, what does this tell us about academia? From research on the net too I found that he has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Stanford as well as having been in the Kuwaiti Parliament (he was raised in Kuwait). I though everyone in Kuwait loved the U.S.? Here is his website in Arabic. Great WND article here.

This comment was the most telling to me were “Four pounds of anthrax – in a suitcase this big – carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the U.S., are guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour Using Mexico to disseminate a biological weapon? Nah, that would never happen. Concerned citizens in San Diego have been warning the public about the possibility of terrorist gaining entry into the U.S. via the porous border for years!

He goes on in the video with other faboulous tidbits such as – “white militia members” in the U.S. who are “calling to attack the federal government in Washington, and to banish the Arabs, the Jews and the negroes (sic) from the U.S.” “These are racist people. They are called ‘rednecks.’ The Ku Klux Klan. They are racists.” Sounds like the DHS report, is this guy consulting with Napolitano to paint all conservatives as mad-hat bomber types?

The best rebuttal of the Obama-Doctrine – “Allah states in the Quran that the hostility between us and [the Jews] is eternal. So whoever talks about dialogue – cut off his tongue! What dialogue are they talking about?! There is no room for dialogue. Allah said that our hostility towards the Jews is eternal, and then along comes someone and talks about brotherhood and so on … This contradicts the Quran. Anyone who contradicts the Quran is an infidel.” This is the mentality that Ahmadinejad, Chavez, et al. are supporting and our own government via Obamanation appeasement and propagandizing validation are condoning. Disagree?

Today I attended the Tea Party in Oceanside Californian, a coastal city north of San Diego. It was encouraging to see so many concerned citizens expressing their dissafection with the current regime in our government(s). As this four-sided sign expresses, this is not a Democrat/Republican issue.

I talked to an Oceanside PD officer and I quote, ” This is the most peaceful rally I have ever seen.” Are you listening main stream media? Porbably not.

This is a couple, husband and wife who make their living trucking. I jumped up the platform on the side here, grabbed the rail on the side and said “God bless you guys, I appreciated you making a stand and being here”

Yes I did, the Treasury Secretary however, that’s another story, one set of rules for we ‘peasants’, one set for elitists……

Obamasham, Awesome!

The crowd gathered here to throw tea into the sea….

Queen Pelosi, not amongst us…..

1. Federal income tax = $133,510 (the upcoming Obamanation top rate of 39%)


2. CA income tax = $39,781.00 (this amount could be higher, ‘only’ based on the new 10.425% rate, some subject to 10.55%)


3. Self-Employment tax = $22,943.00 (this one may go up as the Obamanation has toyed with the idea of lifting the Social Security tax cap set at $106,800 to all income)

Total = $196,234.00

Amazing, it isn’t 50% (yet?)

Anyone think he should pay more? Less?

Has anyone seen this? If so, what do you think of Letterman’s angling on whether or not conservative talk-show hosts really believe what they talk about? I’ve always known Letterman to be a dyed-in-the-wool liberal (I saw his show in NYC during the Enron debacle and it was patently obvious that he panders to liberals), but this strikes a new low in my opinion.

• Rescinds the newly passed economic stimulus package in 2010, except for unemployment insurance for those who have already lost their job.
  


• Repeals the latest budget and continues a freeze in non-defense, non-veteran spending.
  Converts Medicaid into an allotment to states. Reforms Social Security and Medicare, including “means testing” for drug prescription benefits.
  


• Simplifies the tax code. Taxpayers would have a choice of keeping the current system (details on what I outlined above), or choosing one that would tax couples making $100,000 (or individuals making $50,000) at a10 percent rate and taxing those above at 25 percent. The plan would include what Ryan called “generous” personal and standard deductions.
  


• Cuts the corporate tax rate to 25 percent as a job-creating measure.
  
• Increases offshore oil drilling.
  


• Places a moratorium on all earmarks.

Paul Ryan, can you lead the GOP and keep the Obamanation and the Democrat Party from bankrupting this great nation?