The Bill of Rights – First Amendment

The first amendment guarantees our God given right to speak, worship, have an uncontrolled press, to assemble, and to request resolution to problems involving or caused by the government.

In our world it’s easy to say what you believe because of the first amendment; we have the God given right to free speech.  How many citizens understand free speech to not only guarantee your right to speak your mind, but also to be offended?  It’s true if you believe everyone has the right of free speech and not just you.  Assume someone with whom you disagree speaks their mind; they have a right to say what they want, and you have the right to be offended.  Freedom of speech ends at the tip of your nose; you have a right to speak your mind and so does everyone else.

The first amendment also guarantees your right to worship whichever god you choose, or none at all.  Everyone has this God given right and cannot be prevented from exercising it wherever they choose to.  The often cited “separation of church and state” actually does not exist in the Constitution.  It appears in a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Anabaptists, but does not and never did mean what it is thought to mean today.  The separation Jefferson mentions is the Constitutional preclusion to establishment of a state religion.  The federal government is forbidden, but the states are not, and the people have no restriction on their ability to worship as they please.  Actually freedom of religion is doubly protected, as it is also protected under freedom of speech.

A free press is necessary to the maintenance of the republic.  The press is supposed to keep tabs on the government and report on wrongdoing.  This is not the case today, with the press showing a near universal tilt to the left.  A free press is still necessary, and their freedom is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Our right to assemble prevents the government from suppressing information; our right to assemble guarantees that TEA parties, unions, civil rights marches, 828 rallies, and town hall meetings can take place.  No matter which side you are on, the guarantee that you can peacefully assemble with like-minded people is vital to maintaining the republic.

The right to seek resolution of problems by communicating with the government is also vital to maintaining the republic – without this right, the government could refuse to communicate with a person or group that had been wronged by the government.

Many of those in government have decided that today the Constitution means what they need it to mean, not what it actually says. Because the progressive movement needs us to turn away from God, to lose our basic morality, and to distrust our fellow man their agents in the government and the courts have prostituted the Constitution to mean what they need it to mean, not to maintain continuity with the meaning as understood by the Founders.

We were required by the Founders to be a spiritual people or the republic would not work.  When there is no overbearing government to insure people act properly it is up to the people to self-regulate.  This is the morality mentioned earlier; without it our society enters a downward spiral that ends in anarchy.  The republic dies, to be replaced by democracy, which is a transient phase on the way to anarchy and finally dictatorship.  It’s all happened before, and the progressives want it to happen now.

One way to prevent the loss of our way-of-life is to honor the freedoms found in the first amendment; practice your right to free speech, whether social, political, or religious.  Freedom is like muscle – it gets stronger when exercised and withers when not used.  Throw politically correct speech away – it serves no real purpose.  Identify a thing correctly, not by an inoffensive term; either the “war on terror” is a war or it’s not; it is not a foreign contingency exercise.

In the land of the free and the home of the brave, We the People have the responsibility to use and protect our God given rights.  If we do, we protect the republic and banish the progressives for another century.

Dear Fellow Arkansan,

My top priority for Arkansas is creating jobs and putting our economy back on track.  As the first Arkansan to chair the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, I am using this position as a pipeline for jobs and economic opportunity for our state.

We thought the oath of office required that you work for all the people, Senator.  How is “a pipeline for jobs…” not corruption?  If you send jobs or economic aid to your state rather than where it will do the most good, it’s pork, and pork is corruption.

Since taking over the leadership of what I consider “Arkansas’s Committee,” I have helped communities secure rural development dollars for rural broadband, clean drinking water and other critical services. Last month, I announced nearly $1 million in grants for Arkansas small businesses, such as our poultry producers, to become more energy efficient.  This year’s funding is an increase of twelve times last year’s amount of $79,000 and adds $4 million in economic activity.

All well and good, but how are libraries or broadband internet the job of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (ANF)?  Looks more like buying the rural vote than doing your job.

The Agriculture Committee oversees the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is the largest investor in our rural communities, providing funds for such things as fire trucks and emergency equipment, clean drinking water, hospital improvements, libraries, broadband services, and workforce development training. Most of our communities would not have the resources to make these economic development investments without this funding.

Agreed that most rural communities would not have the resources to make these investments; why should we, the rest of the people, make those investments for them?  None of the items you mention have anything to do with ANF and everything to do with pork and buying the rural vote.

Since 2001, I have delivered more than $3.2 billion in rural economic development funding to Arkansas communities. As Chairman, I can now see that even more of these dollars flow to Arkansas’s rural economy.

Delivered is exactly correct; you have taken money from taxpayers and delivered it to other taxpayers.  That’s called redistribution of wealth when the recipient has no right to the resources of the person(s) from whom the taxes were taken.  The problem is you are delivering funding where you have no right to deliver it.  Should ANF build forests and farms in the middle of cities, or if not ANF, should congress do it just because all citizens should have the benefit of a rural lifestyle?  If not why are you bringing the city to rural areas?  There is a choice in where we live, and the available facilities go with the location.  You are buying votes, Senator, and you have been buying them for your whole career.  This is why it is time for you to go.

The Senate has passed my “Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act,” which includes the largest increase in funding for school lunch programs ever and provides children with more nutritious school meals that meet high nutritional standards set by the Institute of Medicine.

And this federal program should be a state program.  Why is the federal government involved in all of these programs?  You don’t do your job, but find ways to ingratiate yourselves to the people whose vote you need to stay in office.  More corruption and vote buying, and you’ve ruined the economy by your pandering to special interests rather than doing what is right.

Wall Street Reform is now law and includes my proposals cracking down on risky financial deals that caused the near-collapse of the American financial system — protecting Arkansans’ retirement funds, savings accounts and college funds.

Actually Senator, it is pretty well proven that the Progressive need for everyone to own a home caused the financial meltdown, and that no one in congress was interested in solving the problem when the solution might have lost you some votes.  Our congress is a self-serving group of carrion eaters.  It’s not a party issue, it has to do with doing anything to be reelected.  You cannot pretend that no one in Washington knew that Fannie and Freddie were ready to melt, and you don’t want the public to know the problem is still there.  All you want is to be reelected.  You and all the incumbents like you have outstayed your welcome.  It’s time for you to go.

Arkansas’s logging, lumber and paper industries are significant to our state’s economic success.  That’s why within weeks of becoming Chairman, I secured an extra $4 million in timber funding for the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests—a 30 percent increase that will help keep sawmills open and employing 700 Arkansans. In addition, I am working with the Administration to deliver much-needed disaster assistance for our producers who were devastated by flooding last year.

So subsidy is now a way of life for forestry as well as agriculture.  There are those who don’t believe that being paid for not working is wrong; it’s not only wrong, it’s criminal.  Why should people who work hard every day send their hard earned money to someone so they don’t have to work?  Why, Senator, is it right to protect some jobs and not all jobs.  You protect all jobs by allowing the private sector to do what it does best – produce the best products at the best cost as a result of competition.  When government planners get involved, you choose winners and losers, and it is not your job to do so.  Your policies are in restraint of trade and should be stopped.  Hopefully this November Arkansas will stop your input into the process.

With agriculture providing a job for one out of every four Arkansans and contributing more than $16 billion each year to the state’s economy, this chairmanship is a huge victory for Arkansas.

Shouldn’t we hope for a huge victory for the whole country, which is actually your job?  Do you not understand that when you call something a victory you are presupposing a loser?  If it’s a victory for Arkansas it’s a loss for some other state.  You should have the national interest in your heart and mind at all times and trust the people to elect the best person for the job.  That person is not you, but you should wish it anyway.

Now that an Arkansan is holding the gavel in the Senate Agriculture Committee, the policies that affect our state will be written by someone who is committed to doing what’s best for Arkansas and for our way of life.

Although you don’t say it in so many words, is the rest of your statement “and to hell with everyone else”?  That’s what it sounds like.  Time to go, Senator.

As always, please feel free to contact me with your comments, suggestions and concerns. I look forward to hearing from you.

Right.  BS meter is still off the scale.

With Arkansas Pride,

Heinlein’s book had a premise – that we have a world government and two classes of people; voters and citizens.

If you haven’t served you don’t vote.  You’re a citizen, but you don’t have a say.  I don’t believe you have to serve to vote, but I believe you have to pay taxes.  As we all learned when we were young, anything you get for free is not valued.  If it doesn’t cost you anything personally, it is easy to vote for more and more government programs; after all, they don’t cost you anything and might actually do some good.

Heinlein’s Federation is clearly militaristic. Even casual Heinlein fans know that to become a voting citizen of the Federation, you have to serve at least two years in the military.

The core of Heinlein’s novel is why you have to serve to vote — a thesis found first in Rico’s high school History and Moral Philosophy class.

Rico’s teacher, Mr. DuBois, asks “‘What is the moral difference, if any, between the soldier and the civilian?”

“The difference,’” Rico answers, “lies in the field of civic virtue. A soldier accepts responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not” (Starship Troopers, page 26).

The purpose here is not to support required military service, although I can see a benefit to some of our young citizens being exposed to the word NO with some teeth behind it.  What we’re looking to explore is getting the bills paid.

Look at ancient Rome; once the citizens realized they could vote themselves benefits the Republic was done, replaced by a democracy and then by ruin.  If those ancient Romans had to pay taxes they might have thought differently.

Don’t misunderstand – I’m not advocating a poll tax; what I am advocating is a fair tax or a flat tax that everyone pays.  No exemptions because you’re poor, or own a home.  You make money you pay taxes.  When we all feed the beast we all have a say in what to feed it.

It comes down to individual responsibility; until we’re all responsible for our own selves, until we all have a stake in what happens,  we can’t expect the elected officials to do the right thing.  Their careers are built on developing a base, and when the base is built on dependency the corruption and bad practices will never stop until the dependency stops.  It must stop.

We the People demand it.

“Having grown up in a rural area, I am strongly committed to ensuring that rural Arkansans have access to the services and infrastructure they need. Our rural communities depend on these investments to make improvements to community facilities that deliver a better quality of life to their residents.

As Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, I am committed to ensuring that our largest investor in rural areas, the Department of Agriculture, is supporting the development of many small towns and communities in Arkansas.”

So we need to subsidize rural Arkansans with the benefits of urban living because why?  I grew up in a city, and no one brought horses, cows, or tractors, much less forests, into the city so we’d have the benefits of a rural upbringing.

If you want city stuff, move to the city.  It’s not our responsibility to make everything right or fair, and it’s certainly not the government’s.

This is pure and simple an attempt to buy votes with her chairmanship.  Can’t beat the opponent with ideas, buy votes.

Additionally, if you’re going to do it, do something smart.  Senator Lincoln’s idea is to put five computers in the library in Augusta, Arkansas.  Great, now the citizens will have to drive to town from the farm to use the computers.  Is anyone foolish enough to think that this is a good idea?

If it is a good idea, why didn’t the residents of Augusta do it for themselves?  According to U.S. Census data, there are 1,153 occupied homes in Augusta, which means if each household contributed $5 they could have put the computers in the library without the government.

There are three things Lincoln’s plan for buying rural votes is missing; fiscal responsibility, smaller government, and constitutional government.

For those three reasons alone I will not vote for her.  I urge all responsible Arkansans to do the same!

If you can’t tell me you’re giving your time by talking to people, knocking on doors, attending meetings, manning phone banks, writing letters and emails, calling politician’s offices to tell them how displeased you are with them, calling your favorite candidate to tell her or him that you support them and ask if there’s anything additional you can do, then

YOU’RE PART OF THE PROBLEM, NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION!

Have you contacted your local TEA Party (or started on if there’s none near you)?  It isn’t difficult to get one going.  The United States is a center/right country.

All the polls tell us there are plenty of people who don’t agree with the Progressive agenda.  There should be plenty of people who are interested in joining a TEA Party.  It only takes a few anyway.  History tells us a few dedicated operators can make a huge difference.

Do you want to make a difference, or are you satisfied with yelling at your TV?  Making a difference is easy.  Do something.  Anything is better than nothing.  Wishing will not win elections.

Get off your overstuffed chair and DO SOMETHING!

You’ll find you feel a lot better being part of the solution.  Anyone can remain on the sidelines.  Anyone can say they can pass a football better than the quarterback.

Very few can.

You can.

Come do it.  Help us remove the Progressive Menace and restore the United States of America.

If you’re looking for like-minded people:

Faulkner County Tea Party

Americans for Prosperity

American Majority

Tell them Veritas sent you.

Arizona is well within their rights under the U.S. Constitution.  The state (AZ) is not patrolling the border – they are enforcing the law within the state.  If someone is stopped as a result of a police officer observing a possible violation of law, the officer is entitled to ask questions and demand identification.  Whether you like it or not, that’s the law.

Although he was hailed as a constitutional scholar during the election, Barack Obama is not adhering to the restrictions of the Constitution.  His mission is to destroy this nation and he seems hell-bent on doing so by whatever means he can.  Funded by George (Hitler Youth) Soros, abetted by the liberal/progressive/robot lame-stream media, and partnered with corrupt unions, his cabal are positioning themselves like vultures on a carcass for a feast.

We cannot let this happen!

First and foremost ELECT REAL CONSERVATIVES!  If there’s any doubt, vote them out!  As Angel Roberson says, “V.E.T.O.”!  Vote Everyone of Them Out!

Support Arizona!  It’s part of the front line in keeping illegals out.  Pressure the Obama regime to seal the border, and then deal with comprehensive immigration reform.  Remember the Progressives pulled the same dirty trick on Ronald Reagan in 1987 when they promised to enact comprehensive immigration reform if he would grant amnesty.  He kept his part of the bargain, they said OOPS!

Get active and volunteer!  You can’t kick ass without a boot, and volunteers are the boot!

Go to city council meetings and tell your local government representatives what you think, what you want, and run against them if they don’t listen!  Same goes for the school board and the county quorum court and state and national elected offices.  These people lose sight of the plain truth that government is supposed to be limited and people need to be responsible for themselves.

Many government projects are done in the name of helping those that cannot help themselves.  They should be honest and say that the projects are done to keep those who have not been educated to help themselves dependent.  Remember, the Progressive movement needs an underclass, and they are working very hard to create and perpetuate one.

Charity should be personal, not forced.  When the government takes my money to give to someone else, it is theft.

Don’t be misled by campaign promises.  Look at the candidate’s record not what they say they will do.  Research what they’ve said, what they believe.  Blanche Lincoln is the perfect example of election season epiphanies.  Her record in the Senate puts the lie her campaign promises, and she’s counting on voters having short memories.

Ask questions, and don’t be bullied into accepting a non-answer.  That’s what Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are for.

When civil servants lie or mislead they should be removed from their job.  They have a public trust, and violating that trust is a firing offense.  The opposite side of that coin is knowing the facts before you accuse someone of inappropriate actions.  As government watchdogs, we have the same responsibility as a good hunter; verify your target before you shoot.  It works in the woods, and it works in the halls of government.

Last but probably most important, know your rights and where they come from.  The Constitution is the basis for all of our rights and freedom, but it can be and often is misinterpreted.  Separation of church and state is the perfect example.  Look it up.  The wall that Progressives say exists is not in the Constitution, and never was.  The only mention of a wall was a letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists, and it only confirmed that the feds couldn’t set up a national religion.  By misinterpreting the Constitution the Progressives have effectively removed religion from our national life, and disregarded hundreds of years of legal precedent to do so.

Get off your butt and do something!  There are so many ways you can make a difference, and each project needs someone to believe in it and make it happen.

There is no one other than We the People to take our nation and heritage back!  What are you waiting for?!

The latest ill-conceived project will require that the city use an Arkansas law that may have constitutional problems.  It sure looks as if the law (Arkansas State Code ACA 14-56-413) may have constitutional problems in this case.

Of course there will be public hearings and all the proper nods and courtesies to insure the citizens of Faulkner County who are affected are given the opportunity to provide input.  From the conversation at  last Tuesday night’s meeting, it seems some on the council have already made their decision, so it may be that public hearings are more pro-forma than informational or useful.

The city council has decided that it’s time to take advantage of that dubious Arkansas law to impose city zoning in an area up to two miles outside the city limits.  Some on the council are adamant that this is not a zoning ordinance, and that the city is not establishing city zoning outside of the city limits.  The document describing the proposed action is titled “Synopsis of Proposed Zoning Ordinance Amendments Creating a T-2 Rural Zone and Supporting Revisions.”  I supposed using the word zoning in the document title may be incorrect, but what of the many references to existing zoning ordinances?  I suppose the council can call it whatever they want, but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…

It should not be the responsibility of disenfranchised citizens to persuade our city council to leave them alone.  This is not an action to bring county territory into the city, where the affected residents get to vote on whether they want to be part of the city or not; this is imposing city control and fees over county residents who have no recourse and certainly no vote.

Some on the council think the rural zone is needed, but that the regulations recommended are too stringent while others think it doesn’t go far enough and want to put full city zoning in this two mile zone surrounding the city.  Each has constituent input that they will listen to, but again it seems many of those present had already made up their mind that the zone is needed in one form or fashion or another.

That may be well and good for residents of the city.  It will serve to keep “undesirable” land use away from those living on the city limits.  Of course what is undesirable to you may be perfectly wonderful to me.  What about those who live in the county and will be affected by this ordinance?  Some people move to the county from the city because they don’t want to be bothered with people telling them how to use their property.  Many of them pre-date the city limits moving out to them; they were there first.  What of their rights?

There may be a constitutional problem with the law under which the city justifies this project (Arkansas State Code ACA 14-56-413).  That problem is taxation without representation.  Most people in the county will see no effect, but some will; those that wish to run a business from their home or create a subdivision will have to comply with city regulations and ordinances including procuring conditional use permits.  Any use other than residential or agriculture will not only need a conditional use permit, but will have to comply with city sign regulations among other requirements.

If the city doesn’t like what the non-city landowner wants to do with their land, the city can refuse to issue the conditional use permit.  The city does it all the time to city residents.

A resident of the county will be required to pay for permits which are not needed for the same development elsewhere in the county, or they may be prevented from a land use that is legal and accepted in other parts of the county, and they don’t have the right to vote for or against the city council members that are taxing them.  It is taxation without representation, pure and simple.

Businesses already in existence will be able to keep their current signs as long as they stay in business, but selling your business to someone else will require a conditional use permit and a change to conforming signage.  Close your garage and open a body shop and you’ll have to get a permit and change your sign.  In other parts of the county you would not be bound by these ridiculous requirements that your use of your own property be controlled by someone who is not answerable to you on Election Day.

It is wrong to limit peoples’ rights using a suspect law just because you can.  It is not good that those living on the city limits may have nuisance land use right over their fence, but the land use over your fence shouldn’t be a surprise, and if it is but it’s legal, the landowner over the fence has as much right to use of their land for whatever legal purpose they wish to.

This project, as well intentioned as it may be, is another case of the government declaring winners and losers.  It’s not government’s job to do that, and it certainly is not government’s purpose to tax citizens who have no representation.  There was this thing called a Revolution which settled that issue.  Taking away God-given rights is not acceptable, no matter what good the government wants to accomplish by doing so.

The Conway City Council again proves it is full of good intentions.  Unfortunately the road to Hell is also paved with them.

My overall opinion of Barack Obama is that he talks like a heavyweight fighter, but he needs to gain weight to be a featherweight.  The man is an empty suit when it comes to doing the job for which he took the oath of office in January 2009.

Having insulted and accused the Chosen One, it’s time to present some facts that support my position.

How is Obama trying to destroy the U.S.A.?  He supports special interest groups, many of whom are on record as being against our rule of law.  Start with his support of unions; his actions and the unions’ publicly stated intent is detrimental, if not illegal.  The Chrysler and GM bailouts accomplished nothing except to fund union pension plans.  What about all the other pension plans that the busted economy destroyed?  Why are unions any more important that anyone else?  For starters their leaders support the Obama agenda and want to turn the U.S.A. into a European socialist democracy.  We call them Progressives, elsewhere they are call socialists.  Remember the only groups that benefited from the government bailouts were unions.  Bondholders were pushed to the back of the line when established bankruptcy law said they should be paid first.  The President and his administration violated establish law to benefit the unions.

Bailing out large financial institutions benefitted European banks.  These ill-conceived projects were started by George Bush, so Obama is not the only one to blame, but the Chosen One has taken support of these special interests to new heights.  Remember the vitriol that spewed from the President and Democratic leaders of Congress when it became known that bonuses that were legal and contractual would be paid?

Remember how those who would receive the bonuses were vilified?  Of course we never heard of the bonuses paid to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives, many of which were larger than the private sector bonuses Obama made so much of.  Could it be that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were supporting the Obama-lead progressive movement, and in their world the end always justifies the means?  It seems, to this administration, it’s more who you support than what laws you break.

Health care (actually healthcare insurance) is another of the debacles the Obaminator has visited on us.  Huge majorities of the American public were and still are against it, yet he pushed, weaseled, cajoled, and bribed that bill into existence.  Princess Nancy Pelosi told us they’d have to pass the bill before we could see what is in it.  Well, we’ve had some time to look, and the final product is worse than we originally thought.  Based on faulty logic, providing diminished care at higher cost, hiding costs to make it seem better than it is, and handing us more European-style socialism, this bill is a power grab and nothing more.  It won’t improve health care, and in fact will make it worse.  We were told the health care bill would provide us with a system like the U.K. and Canada have.  That’s not a great endorsement in my book.

Then there are the facts about Canadian health care we see in the news.  Surprise!  Canada is looking to change their system because it doesn’t work and is bankrupting that country.  That’s a model I’d sure support if I were an imbecile.

The oil spill in the gulf is a prime example of talking-the-talk, but not knowing how to walk, or not walking because the disaster supports your plan to destroy the U.S.A.  There’s a great article you should read.  There’s really little left to say about the oil spill except that incompetence on the part of the President and his administration is responsible for any damage to the wetlands and beaches, and of course the economy, of the gulf coast.

He may not have been able to prevent the explosion that caused the leak, but his inaction has made the results orders of magnitude worse.  Remember, his people had over a year to solve, or at least identify, the problems at the Minerals Management Service.  MMS’ inaction and allowing BP to use sub-standard processes to drill the well makes Obama complicit if not responsible for the explosion.

The totality of his and his administration’s actions in 17 months has been to weaken the United States, destroy our economy, leave our borders unsecured, and to assist in the Progressive/Socialist takeover he is working for.

It’s too bad a president’s term can’t be reduced for bad behavior the way a prisoner’s can for good behavior.

If that were the case, We the People would be rid of Obama already.

Why do we start an opinion article with reference to a science fiction writer?  Because some things are true no matter how you phrase them.  Isaac Asimov wrote the three laws as a foundation for how robots would behave in his science fiction universe.

The premise was that no matter how powerful and intelligent robots became, their role was to protect and serve mankind.  These same common sense rules can be applied to the actions of any elected officials.

The Three Laws of Robotics are:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

How about the Three Laws of Politics:

1. An elected official must be guided by the Constitution in all actions and may not injure a citizen or, through actions favoring one constituency over another, allow a citizen to come to harm.
2. An elected official must obey any mandate given to it by citizens, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. An elected official must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

With no effort to expand or explain what is meant, it’s simple to see that the three laws would, if followed by our elected officials, result in a government that truly “does the right thing” for all citizens, and does not favor one group over another.

Interesting concept.  A return to Constitutional, fiscally responsible, smaller government that would be brought about by politicians.  Now that’s truly fiction.

So there’s no such thing as settled science.  Next bit of dogma to dispose of – global warming is a fact.  It’s not.  The earth goes through cycles of heating and cooling.  All of Al Gore’s pseudo-science cannot prove that the climate is warming (and the temperature at the center of the earth is several thousand degrees, not several million, Al.  You may be a star, but we don’t live on one).   There has been a decrease in temperatures world-wide for the last ten years.  It’s not getting warmer.

Global warming, now called climate change because the climate is not warming, is a political issue, not an environmental issue.  It’s a progressive plot to redistribute wealth from the Haves to the Have-Nots that replaced communism as the power-grabbing tool of the progressives when communism imploded.

Carbon dioxide, the villain in this political theater, is a greenhouse gas as defined by the EPA and greenies.  I define it as one of the results of oxidation, and a requirement for life (if you don’t metabolize nutrients you’re dead – metabolism is oxidation).  We inhale oxygen and exhale CO2; plants and trees inhale CO2 and exhale oxygen.  Pretty cool system.   It worked before the government, and will work when the government is gone.

I’m not a scientist, and usually pretty much go along with what scientists tell us, or at least I did.  When a scientist makes a claim that I can refute, I have to start thinking how much to believe scientists.  I always thought science was a means to itself, that science was its own justification.

What I’m seeing now is science prostituted to the Progressive agenda, e.g. we need a climate crisis to justify the changes we want to make, so let’s just ignore some of the data (think Little Ice Age), and not correct for known errors (don’t correct temperatures in cities for the “urban heat sink effect” that has been known for years).  Then we take the results of our bogus studies and put it in “peer reviewed” publications where the peers who review our tripe are believers and participants in the scam with us.  Please remember to then berate those who disagree by telling them the “science is settled”.

What the lie of settled science tells us is that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are rising and causing global temperatures to rise.  That seems to make sense, as CO2 levels are rising world-wide, but the second part of their supposition is flawed; temperatures have been falling for about 10 years, not rising.  To get their numbers to show what they wanted them to, they had to disregard the “Little Ice Age”, a period of cool, wet weather that extended from the early 1600s until the mid-1800s.  Google the Little Ice Age to find out more, but remember much of this occurred before the Industrial Revolution got in full stride, so man had nothing to do with it.  The LIA was a natural cycle.

All of this talk of climate change (they changed the name when “global warming” was proven false, just as they changed “global cooling” before that) is a cover for a power grab.  Progressives want power, one world government (they’re in charge, of course), and a planned life of equality, peace, and plenty for all.  Of course the world they’re describing is at least Socialism, possibly Communism, and very likely Fascism.  The Progressives are counting on our wanting comfort more than freedom.  If you’ll trade freedom for comfort, you deserve neither, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin.

Urge your Senator to vote against Cap and Trade.  Climate change is a natural cycle, and man will not affect it through legislation.

Urge your Representative and Senator to vote against the power grab.

We the People are too smart to believe this garbage.

Additional reading:

Krauthammer on Carbon – http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/11/copenhagen_shakedown.html

The EPA as Obama’s (useless) club – http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703514404574588120572016720.html

Call the bluff – http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/10/how-to-stop-cap-and-trade-by-rich-trzupek/print/