Today I travelled with two friends to attend the Tea Party hosted in Washington, MO. What an inspirational event! So many people (about 3000 I heard) came out to support the tried and true conservative values of freedom, independence, and self-preservation. There were so many great signs, t-shirts, and speeches. Highlights for me were hearing from Curtis, an 18-year-old blogger at www.gatewaypatriot.com, hearing from Dr. Gina Loudon on how to promote legislative change, and hearing from Dana Loesch, a very passionate radio host.
Click through to see more pics from the event… (more…)
An excerpt from an article detailing the suppression of information that contradicts global warming alarmists:
“In a written statement, Issa said the administration is ‘actively seeking to withhold new data in order to justify a political conclusion.’
‘I’m sure it was very inconvenient for the EPA to consider a study that contradicted the findings it wanted to reach,’ Sensenbrenner said in a statement, adding that the “repression” of Carlin’s report casts doubt on the entire finding.
Carlin said he’s concerned that he’s seeing ’science being decided at the presidential level.’
‘Now Mr. Obama is in effect directly or indirectly saying that CO2 causes global temperatures to rise and that we have to do something about it. … That’s normally a scientific judgment and he’s in effect judging what the science says,’ he said. ‘We need to look at it harder.’”
So, there I was standing in line at Walmart the other day. I picked up a reprint of Time’s 2004 pictorial issue all about D-Day, self described as a “reissue of the 2004 Time Classic.” And, I know, this is such a little thing, but it just adds to the bigger picture of how astonishingly liberally bent 95% of mainstream media is. So I’m flipping through the pages and I land on this one big, glossy picture of a factory in New Orleans that manufactured landing boats for the D-Day invasion. In that picture you see the workers busily assembling the landing boats with a oversized banner hanging above them that says, “The guy who relaxes is helping the axis” [see right]. Now that all seems logical to me. Don’t slack off, cause the Nazis are taking over the world, right? But the 2004 caption by the Time magazine writers says, “ON THE DOUBLE: Urged on by a propaganda poster, workers in one of the Higgins’ seven factories in New Orleans churn out his landing boats.” Propaganda? Prop-a-gan-da?? At first I was mad. Then I was confused. Maybe I got the definition of propaganda wrong. So I looked it up! Propaganda according to my MacBook Pro dictionary dashboard widget means, “cheifly derogatory information; esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.” Am I missing something here? How is this poster propaganda at all?! It’s not! Nazis were evil! Americans were out to save the world! And yeah, if you relax, you were indirectly helping the Axis. I see no propaganda here. Well, what can I say Time Magazine writers… way to call the kettle black.
Here’s a “before” pic of highway 100, otherwise known as the Great River Road. The other day I was driving in my Prius with a friend of mine. I commented that I couldn’t believe they were redoing this road. He exclaimed that just the day before he was talking to someone else and they were also amazed that this was a stimulus project. The road was in completely adequate, if not great, condition before and now they’re demolishing it and repaving it… all in the name of the stimulus bill. So wasteful. Not only that… but these are anything but permanent jobs. Anyways, here’s the before pic. I’ll post the after pics soon.
Below is an ongoing, thoughtful discussion between a friend and I regarding global warming and cap and trade. The response I wrote was way too long for facebook, so I’m posting it here. My thoughts are in blue. His are in black.
Ok, let’s look at it this way…. : )
we insure our cars, health, and home, expecting nothing bad to happen… Thousands of dollars a year go down the drain for a minor probability of actually using the $ we invested… everyone supports this system.
Everyone supports this system because people have the FREEDOM to choose who they want to insure with, how much they’ll pay, or even, whether or not they want a car or health care or a home to insure.
Insuring that we avoid catastrophic consequences of the scientific communities’ projections of climate change seems like the prudent thing to do, EVEN if there is a not a high probability of it happening (which there is, according to the people who actual study the climate).
Not everyone who studies the climate believes that global warming is real. If it were real, why would CO2 levels keep going up over the past decade while the global temperatures have consistently declined each year of the last ten years? Continue reading after the jump… (more…)
An email that got forwarded to me today… thought I’d post for all to see!
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky… (more…)
“Yeah we dont always get it all right but theres no place id rather build my life. It’s a kid with a chance, it’s a rock n roll band, it’s a big flag flyin in the summer wind over a fallen hero’s grave… It’s America!”
