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Bad Friday

I spent two and a half hours this afternoon with up to three people poking various sharp and painful objects into my mouth.  Needless to say I'm not feeling my best and I'm on some really good pain meds.  Out for the count today.

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You're Using Too Much Energy

So-called “energy independence” has never really been about energy independence.  All this talk about “green jobs” and wind turbines is blather.  It is empty rhetoric designed to make you feel guilty about your consumption.  The only comprehensive energy plan the left has is to limit what energy you get, not make it affordable or more plentiful.  If you believe they want “energy independence” (whatever that is), then run the numbers.   How about a simple math problem?  How many wind turbines do you need to replace a single 50 megawatt coal plant?  The answer is more than you can build in any given area that uses coal power. 

Those behind the “green energy” movement know that and now you know it.  They aren’t talking about building hydropower, nuclear power or even clean coal.  They don’t want you to have oil or even hydrogen.  It’s not about global warming or climate change or even polar bears.  It’s about control and it’s about controlling you. 

From the Seattle Times:

… [An] energy watchdog is alarmed about the threat to the environment from the soaring electricity needs of gadgets like MP3 players, mobile phones and flat screen TVs.

In a report Wednesday, the Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates new electronic gadgets will triple their energy consumption by 2030 to 1,700 terawatt hours, the equivalent of today's home electricity consumption of the United States and Japan combined.

The world would have to build around 200 new nuclear power plants just to power all the TVs, iPods, PCs and other home electronics expected to be plugged in by 2030, when the global electric bill to power them will rise to $200 billion a year, the IEA said.

Now add to that the idea of plugging in your car or other vehicles and you see the problem.  The IEA was formed back in the 70’s when we were told we would be running out of oil by 1980.  It now justifies its existence with “climate change” issues. 

You are using way too much electricity.  If Henry Waxman gets his way, he will double what you pay for energy from Gasoline to Electricity with his cap and tax trade scheme.  It will cost you over 3000 dollars more just in utility bills alone.  Gas will most likely go to five or six dollars a gallon.

They don’t want to build new energy facilities.  They really don’t even want to build the wind turbines.  They want to control you by controlling what you use and do.

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We Are Broke

Watching the American economy die is like watching a massive train wreck.  You see two engines coming at each other at full throttle and you have to watch.  You can't close your eyes and you can't stop them.   You just continue to watch in horror as the two behemoths race toward each other, hell bent for total destruction.

We were told that Social Security will most like be broke by 2041 and medicare will be insolvent in about ten years.  America's bond rating is close to being downgraded which means the cost of servicing our debt will increase way beyond what is now predicted.  We are spending almost 50 cents more than every dollar we are taking in in revenue.

The term for that is unsustainable.  We cannot continue to spend like this, but we are and in fact, the Obama Administration is about to make it worse by adding in billions upon billions for health care . 

Sometimes I wonder if I'm wrong on this.  It seems that most of the country is blithely going along as if nothin will happen.  The Obama administration is telling us the recession is ending, but there is absolutely no hard indicator that confirms that.  In fact, Consumer confidence continues to fall.  There are some folks out there starting to sound the alarm, but it's almost like voices in the wilderness.

I hope I'm so wrong about this.  It's like the above described train wreck; you hope you are dreaming and when you wake up, there will be no carnage. 

I don't know what will happen to this country if the bottom falls out.  Frankly, it scares me.  Happy endings are only in the movies and this scenario cannot possibly end well.

Pray we wake up before it's too late.

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It Should Not Happen In America

When I was a  kid, we'd all tune in to watch the Miss America Pageant.  They'd walk across the stage in a bathing suit and high heels, then an evening gown,  The finalists all had to answer some insipid question and usually did so with an equally insipid answer.  There would be the runner's up named, building up to the crowning of the new Miss America by the last year's winner.  Bert Parks would then croon "Here she comes, Miss America" as the newly crowned beauty walked down the runway wearing her tiara and holding a few thousand roses.  A month later, most of us probably couldn't even remember her name, let alone what state she represented. 

Today, in order to placate the Feminists, pageants are not supposed to be just about beauty - although you won't see an ugly chick among them..  It's all about talent and scholarships, with the winner emphasizing her personal cause. 

The insipid questions they ask are still insipid and the answers are usually just as vacuous.  You may recall Miss Teen South Carolina's infamous answer to why one fifth of all Americans can't find America on a world map.

Miss California (Carrie Prejean), in competition for the title of Miss USA, gave an honest answer to a politically charged question.  The question, asked by a contestant judge by the name of  Mario Lavandeira, was about gay marriage.  In essence, Ms. Prejean gave the wrong answer.  The next day, Lavandeira showed his class and breeding by calling Ms. Prejean several unrepeatable names and saying her answer was why she did not win and if she had won, he would have ran up on that stage and ripped her tiara off and ran out. 

Whether he would have or not is open to speculation.  I imagine he really doesn't have the eggs to do much more than name call from a long distance.  Since then, some people have demanded she have her California title removed.  Others have joined Mr. Lavandeira's lead in classiness and called her names, etc.  "Objective" journalists have excoriated her.

Freedom is in danger.  Regardless of your opinion concerning gay marriage, or even of Barack Obama, you should be able to freely state it.  You should be prepared to defend it in a discussion or a debate, but you should be able to state it with out fear of some two-bit gossip monger and freak like Mario Lavandeira calling you filthy names.

Freedom is under assault.  Every day, conservatives are being told by liberals (and those same objective journalists) that their views are too extreme and must be modified.  Those of us who support the Tea Party movement are being called racists and even un-American.

As Ms. Prejean said at her presser today:  "It should not happen in America".  But it is.  Leftists are not about freedom of speech or freedom of anything for that matter.  They want to tell you what you can say, where you can live, work and play.  It's only going to get worse.

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Happy Mother's Day!

My Mother passed away 20 years ago last April.  She was about 6 weeks or so shy of 59.  My siblings and I were lucky to have had such a good mother who taught us right from wrong and loved us as selflessly as only a mother can.  Dad left to join her last August.

So if your Mother is still alive, go hug her and thank her and tell her you love her.  For all you Moms out there, I hope you have a great day.

Husbands, do something nice for the mother of your children.  Teach your children by example.

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