Mischa Maisky playing Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude - unbelievably beautiful.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
The Fundamental Obligation of Our Government Is The Defense Of Our Country
Is America protected against the 25 rogue states that I listed in a recent post and others such as Russia? While Obama hands out checks is America in danger? Watch this trailer for "33 Minutes" a film describing how long it would take for a ballistic missile armed with a nuclear weapon to arrive to our beloved shores.
Tired of Obama Worship? New Technologies On The Horizon If We Still Have Freedom
HIGH SPEED RAILWAYS IN SPAIN: Spain is rapidly expanding its high-speed rail service, becoming one of most connected countries in the world. As the high- speed rail network grows, Spanish companies continue to innovate and provide new services and products at lower prices to meet the world’s growing demand. This is the fourth in an eight-part series highlighting new technologies in Spain and is produced by Technology Review, Inc.’s custom-publishing division in partnership with the Trade Commission of Spain. ..(Read the article at Technology Review)
As it runs, the core in a traveling-wave reactor gradually converts nonfissile material into the fuel it needs. Nuclear reactors based on such designs "theoretically could run for a couple of hundred years" without refueling, says John Gilleland, manager of nuclear programs at Intellectual Ventures. ..(Read at Technology Review).
TR10: Traveling Wave Reactor ...These problems are mostly accepted as a given, but not by a group of researchers at Intellectual Ventures, an invention and investment company in Bellevue, WA. The scientists there have come up with a preliminary design for a reactor that requires only a small amount of enriched fuel--that is, the kind whose atoms can easily be split in a chain reaction. It's called a traveling-wave reactor. And while government researchers intermittently bring out new reactor designs, the traveling-wave reactor is noteworthy for having come from something that barely exists in the nuclear industry: a privately funded research company.
As it runs, the core in a traveling-wave reactor gradually converts nonfissile material into the fuel it needs. Nuclear reactors based on such designs "theoretically could run for a couple of hundred years" without refueling, says John Gilleland, manager of nuclear programs at Intellectual Ventures. ..(Read at Technology Review).
LIQUID BATTERY: Without a good way to store electricity on a large scale, solar power is useless at night. One promising storage option is a new kind of battery made with all-liquid active materials. Prototypes suggest that these liquid batteries will cost less than a third as much as today's best batteries and could last significantly longer...(Read at Technology Review).
Friday, February 27, 2009
Obama Talks Down Our Economy As He Grabs For More Power
Obama gets scarier and scarier as he shreds our Constitution bit by bit. I mean come on "czars" in America - land of the free and the brave???? Obama is a power-luster and he's very smart about it as he cons the people into believing he's doing all this for America. There's an interesting article by Rob Tracinski at TIA daily that develops this theme.
One of the disturbing aspects of Barack Obama's appointment of various "czars" to cover important issues is that this is an attempt to bypass the normal constitutional structure of the executive branch. The chief executive's primary officers are supposed to be the cabinet secretaries appointed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate, giving the legislature a small check on the president's power. Instead, Obama is shifting power to executive officials selected by and reporting solely to him.
Similarly, blogger Michelle Malkin reports below on a little noticed clause in the pseudo-stimulus bill that breaks down the separation of powers between state and federal governments in an attempt to force Republican governors of non-profligate states to spend federal stimulus money. It is a blatantly unconstitutional attempt by Congress to dictate the budgets and legislative process of the states.
Didn't Barack Obama promise to restore a greater respect for the Constitution?
But of course, we never should have believed that, because Obama is the man from ACORN—the organization of quasi-Leninist "community organizers" that specializes in using lawless thug tactics to agitate for socialism. The latest ACORN program? Forcibly preventing foreclosures on borrowers who have stopped paying their mortgages.
Also read Carl Rove's article The Obama Whitehouse May be a Crowded Mess.
One of the disturbing aspects of Barack Obama's appointment of various "czars" to cover important issues is that this is an attempt to bypass the normal constitutional structure of the executive branch. The chief executive's primary officers are supposed to be the cabinet secretaries appointed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate, giving the legislature a small check on the president's power. Instead, Obama is shifting power to executive officials selected by and reporting solely to him.
Similarly, blogger Michelle Malkin reports below on a little noticed clause in the pseudo-stimulus bill that breaks down the separation of powers between state and federal governments in an attempt to force Republican governors of non-profligate states to spend federal stimulus money. It is a blatantly unconstitutional attempt by Congress to dictate the budgets and legislative process of the states.
Didn't Barack Obama promise to restore a greater respect for the Constitution?
But of course, we never should have believed that, because Obama is the man from ACORN—the organization of quasi-Leninist "community organizers" that specializes in using lawless thug tactics to agitate for socialism. The latest ACORN program? Forcibly preventing foreclosures on borrowers who have stopped paying their mortgages.
Also read Carl Rove's article The Obama Whitehouse May be a Crowded Mess.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
The Foolishness Of Centralizing Millions of Economic Decisions in The White House
Walter Williams explains why government can NEVER do what a free economy does and that is to make millions of decisions that lead to individual prosperity and happiness.
The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.
Why? It is impossible for anyone to possess the knowledge that would be necessary for such an undertaking.
At the risk of boring you, let’s go through a small example that proves such knowledge is impossible.
Imagine you are trying to understand a system consisting of six elements. That means there would be 30, or n(n-1), possible relationships between these elements.
Now suppose each element can be characterized by being either on or off. That means the number of possible relationships among those elements grows to the number 2 raised to the 30th power; that’s well over a billion possible relationships among those six elements.
Our economic system consists of billions of different elements that include members of our population, businesses, schools, parcels of land and homes. A list of possible relationships defies imagination and even more so if we include international relationships.
Miraculously, there is a tendency for all of these relationships to operate smoothly without congressional meddling. Let’s think about it.
The average well-stocked supermarket carries over 60,000 different items. Because those items are so routinely available to us, the fact that it is a near miracle goes unnoticed and unappreciated. (READ Economic Freedom)
The idea that even the brightest person or group of bright people, much less the U.S. Congress, can wisely manage an economy has to be the height of arrogance and conceit.
Why? It is impossible for anyone to possess the knowledge that would be necessary for such an undertaking.
At the risk of boring you, let’s go through a small example that proves such knowledge is impossible.
Imagine you are trying to understand a system consisting of six elements. That means there would be 30, or n(n-1), possible relationships between these elements.
Now suppose each element can be characterized by being either on or off. That means the number of possible relationships among those elements grows to the number 2 raised to the 30th power; that’s well over a billion possible relationships among those six elements.
Our economic system consists of billions of different elements that include members of our population, businesses, schools, parcels of land and homes. A list of possible relationships defies imagination and even more so if we include international relationships.
Miraculously, there is a tendency for all of these relationships to operate smoothly without congressional meddling. Let’s think about it.
The average well-stocked supermarket carries over 60,000 different items. Because those items are so routinely available to us, the fact that it is a near miracle goes unnoticed and unappreciated. (READ Economic Freedom)
Saturday, February 21, 2009
If You're a Dictator Please Stand Up!
- "Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America it is the businessmen." (America's Persecuted Minority: Big Business (AYN RAND essay in Capitalism The Unknown Ideal published 1966).
- "It makes no difference whether government controls allegedly favor the interests of labor or business, of the poor or the rich, of the special class or a special race: the results are the same. The notion that a dictatorship can benefit any one social group at the expense of others is a worn remnant of the Marxist mythology of class warfare, refuted by half a century of factual evidence. All men are victims and losers under a dictatorship; nobody wins - except the ruling clique." (AYN RAND "The Fascist New Frontier").
DICTATORS AROUND THE WORLD (any missing? SEND THEM TO ME.)
- Kim Jong Il, North Korea, since 1994
- Than Shwe, Burma, since 1992
- Hu Jintao, China, since 2002
- Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe, since 1980
- Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia, since 1995
- Theodoro Obiang Nguema, Equatorial Guinea, since 1979
- Omar Al-Bashir, Sudan, since 1989
- Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenistan 1990-2007
- Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedove, Turkmenistan, since 2007
- Fidel Castro, followed by Raul Castro, Cuba since 1959
- King Mswate III, Swaziland, since 1986
- Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, since 2009
- Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Iran, since 1989
- Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, since 1999
- Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan, since 1989
- Isayas Afewerki, Eritrea, since 1991
- Muammar al Qaddafi, Libya, since 1969
- Bashar al-Assad, Syria, since 2000
- Meles zenawi, Ethiopia, since 1995
- Aleksandr Lukashenka, Belarus, since 1994
- Choummaly Sayasone, Laos, since 1981
- Idris Deby, Chad, since 1990
Friday, February 20, 2009
DON'T FORGET THAT GOVERNMENT RUINED HOUSING!
If we learn nothing else with this "economic crisis", which by the way is a GOVERNMENT INDUCED ECONOMIC CRISIS, let it be that the housing market was ruined because of government intervention in the market place. Read the economist Thomas Sowell at Capitalism Magazine.
It was precisely government intervention which turned a thriving industry into a basket case.
An economist specializing in financial markets gave a glimpse of the history of housing markets when he said: "Lending money to American homebuyers had been one of the least risky and most profitable businesses a bank could engage in for nearly a century."
That was what the market was like before the government intervened. Like many government interventions, it began small and later grew.
The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 directed federal regulatory agencies to "encourage" banks and other lending institutions "to help meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered consistent with the safe and sound operation of such institutions."
That sounds pretty innocent and, in fact, it had little effect for more than a decade. However, its premise was that bureaucrats and politicians know where loans should go, better than people who are in the business of making loans.
The real potential of that premise became apparent in the 1990s, when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) imposed a requirement that mortgage lenders demonstrate with hard data that they were meeting their responsibilities under the Community Reinvestment Act.
What HUD wanted were numbers showing that mortgage loans were being made to low-income and moderate-income people on a scale that HUD expected, even if this required "innovative or flexible" mortgage eligibility standards. (read)
Another Dictator Infests Planet Earth
Venezuelens voted to eliminate term limits and that makes Hugo Chavez the latest in a long list of Dictators infesting our planet.
"Chavez Calls Venezuela Vote Mandate for Socialism"
President Hugo Chavez says a referendum victory that removed limits on his re-election is a mandate to intensify his socialist agenda for decades to come. Opponents warn of an impending dictatorship.
Both sides had called the outcome of Sunday's vote key to the future of this South American country, split down the middle between those who worship the president for redistributing Venezuela's oil riches and those who see him as a power-hungry autocrat.
"Those who voted "yes" today voted for socialism, for revolution," Chavez thundered to thousands of ecstatic supporters jamming the streets around the presidential palace. Fireworks lit up the Caracas skyline, and one man walked though the crowd carrying a painting of Chavez that read: "Forever."
Josefa Dugarte stared at the crowd from the stoop of her apartment building with look of dismay. (Read the rest and cry).
"These people don't realize what they have done," she muttered.
"Chavez Calls Venezuela Vote Mandate for Socialism"
President Hugo Chavez says a referendum victory that removed limits on his re-election is a mandate to intensify his socialist agenda for decades to come. Opponents warn of an impending dictatorship.
Both sides had called the outcome of Sunday's vote key to the future of this South American country, split down the middle between those who worship the president for redistributing Venezuela's oil riches and those who see him as a power-hungry autocrat.
"Those who voted "yes" today voted for socialism, for revolution," Chavez thundered to thousands of ecstatic supporters jamming the streets around the presidential palace. Fireworks lit up the Caracas skyline, and one man walked though the crowd carrying a painting of Chavez that read: "Forever."
Josefa Dugarte stared at the crowd from the stoop of her apartment building with look of dismay. (Read the rest and cry).
"These people don't realize what they have done," she muttered.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Enslaving Our Doctors and Killing the Patient
If you had any doubt about what Obama has in mind for OUR health care read the article below from Bloomberg.com. The Healthcare "plan" was authored by Tom Daschle and this fellow has no shame. I included the part about throwing the old people overboard. Unbelievable - but we voted for Obama and now we must pay. RUIN YOU HEALTH WITH THE OBAMA STIMULUS PLAN BY Betsy McCaughey
Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.
Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.
Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.
New Penalties
Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.
The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
Elderly Hardest Hit
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).
The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis...(Read)
Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.
Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.
Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.
New Penalties
Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.
The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
Elderly Hardest Hit
Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.
Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).
The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis...(Read)
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19 K459- We Need Beauty in Our Lives
I'm resting from politics - I need something to give me encouragement and what better way than to listen to Mozart. Here is a wonderful recording of Mozart Piano Concerto No.19 K459 in F major with Maurizio Pollini at the piano, and Karl Böhm conducting the Wiener Philharmoniker. It's the first movement.: Allegro vivace.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Scientists Standing up to the Gore Scam
I found a some interesting websites that are standing up against Al Gore's invented Climate Change caused by CO2 scam. More and more people are realizing that this scam is making Gore a rich man. As Friendsofscience.org states: "It is our opinion that the Sun is the main direct and indirect driver of climate change." The above graph at friendsofscience.org shows that in fact temperatures have fallen since 2002.The International Climate Scientific Coalition (ICSC) "is an international association of scientists, economists and energy and policy experts working to promote better public understanding of climate change science and policy worldwide. ICSC is committed to providing a highly credible alternative to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) thereby fostering a more rational, open discussion about climate issues."
Core Principles of International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)
1. Global climate is always changing in accordance with natural causes and recent changes are not unusual.
2. Science is rapidly evolving away from the view that humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide and other 'greenhouse gases' are a cause of dangerous climate change.
3. Climate models used by the IPCC* fail to reproduce known past climates without manipulation and therefore lack the scientific integrity needed for use in climate prediction and related policy decision-making.
4. The UN IPCC Summary for Policymakers and the assertions of IPCC executives too often seriously mis-represent the conclusions of their own scientific reports.
5. Claims that ‘consensus’ exists among climate experts regarding the causes of the modest warming of the past century are contradicted by thousands of independent scientists.
6. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant - it is a necessary reactant in plant photosynthesis and so is essential for life on Earth.
7. Research that identifies the Sun as the principal driver of global climate must be taken more seriously.
8. Global cooling has presented serious problems for human society and the environment throughout history while global warming has generally been highly beneficial.
9. It is not possible to reliably predict how climate will change in the future, beyond the certainty that multi-decadal warming and cooling trends, and abrupt changes, will all continue, underscoring a need for effective adaptation.
10. Since science and observation have failed to substantiate the human-caused climate change hypothesis, it is premature to damage national economies with `carbon' taxes, emissions trading or other schemes to control 'greenhouse gas' emissions.
* United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Also go to http://icecap.us/index.php/go/faqs-and-myths#2 to see answers to the myths regarding "global warming".
Americans Must Demand a Gold Backed Dollar
Brian Simpson writing in Capitalism Magazine explains why we need our money to be backed by gold: to make politicians toe the line about spending. Our money right now is backed by nothing except the productivity of Americans but it allows politicians to spend money we don't have by creating it out of thin air.
Many blame capitalism for the current financial crisis. Even Alan Greenspan, who at one time was an advocate of the free market, blames capitalism. He recently testified in front of a congressional committee that "A critical pillar to . . . free markets did break down. I still do not fully understand why it happened." The first thing that Greenspan and most other commentators on the crisis must do to understand why the crisis occurred is to learn that the free market did not cause the crisis because the U.S. is not even close to being a free-market economy. Massive government interventions in the market in the form of myriad regulations and financial irresponsibility on the part of the government are really to blame. This makes the "solution" being imposed doubly absurd: more government controls, borrowing, and spending to solve the problems created by government controls, borrowing, and spending.
But this isn’t surprising. Ayn Rand observed decades ago that "one of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."
The real solution to the financial crisis is not more financial irresponsibility and government controls, but forcing the government to be financially responsible and abolishing the controls. This means we need to establish a free market in our financial system. As a part of the move to a free market, we need to establish a full-fledged gold standard--one that the government must be prevented from breaching. This is something we have never had in this country...(READ)
Many blame capitalism for the current financial crisis. Even Alan Greenspan, who at one time was an advocate of the free market, blames capitalism. He recently testified in front of a congressional committee that "A critical pillar to . . . free markets did break down. I still do not fully understand why it happened." The first thing that Greenspan and most other commentators on the crisis must do to understand why the crisis occurred is to learn that the free market did not cause the crisis because the U.S. is not even close to being a free-market economy. Massive government interventions in the market in the form of myriad regulations and financial irresponsibility on the part of the government are really to blame. This makes the "solution" being imposed doubly absurd: more government controls, borrowing, and spending to solve the problems created by government controls, borrowing, and spending.
But this isn’t surprising. Ayn Rand observed decades ago that "one of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary."
The real solution to the financial crisis is not more financial irresponsibility and government controls, but forcing the government to be financially responsible and abolishing the controls. This means we need to establish a free market in our financial system. As a part of the move to a free market, we need to establish a full-fledged gold standard--one that the government must be prevented from breaching. This is something we have never had in this country...(READ)
Americans Can Watch as the Consequences of Big Government Unfold
I'm glad Barack Obama won the Presidency. I'm glad that his stimulus package passed. Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking forward to 4 years of government taking my money or watching the debt climb for my sons and grandchildren to deal with. No, I'm glad because maybe then Americans can finally see the difference between government control of the economy vs economic freedom; between living on paper money and having a sound currency backed by gold; between a paternalistic government taking care of your every need and self-sufficiency and the creativity and productivity that it brings.I'm glad Obama is the leader of the greatest country ever devised by man because then maybe in the future we will be careful voters keeping in mind the ominous consequences. I thank the Republicans who did not vote for this "stimulus" binge. It is how they should always behave when confronted with the choice of government mass intervention in the economy and small government that leaves people alone to live their lives as they see fit. I'm not saying that McCain would have been better....he was no conservative, so yes I'm glad Obama won - a professed big spender who was raised at the knee of a socialist and worked in the socialist ghettos of Chicago. That's what we got: a socialist.
To regain a Capitalist country there are going to have to be some rude awakenings by many people in this beloved land of ours. There is a big difference between freedom and a government controlled economy; between the freedom to act according to your own judgement and the government telling you what to do and what's best for you; between Capitalism and Socialism.
We all have to learn government does not produce anything, and in fact does not do anything well; that most politicians, especially the ones who've been in Washington for a gazillion years are nothing but self-aggrandizing hacks on the take. Remember, the only really important job of government is the defense of our soil and Americans! We are all adults we don't need the nanny state to watch over us.
The problem is we need a better class of politicians. Perhaps, when things are so bad and Obama's fumbling attempts at leading are discovered for what they are - a drastic plunge to the left, a better type of person will step up. George Washington where are you when we need you?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
America is Practicing Statism NOT Capitalism
- “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” — Thomas Jefferson
Our Founding Fathers were an honest, frugal and smart group of men who laid the foundations for the vision that they hoped for America. I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would say if he were alive today and saw the enormous power grab of our politicians and our Presidents (I'm thinking of Mr. Bush and of course Mr. Obama).
Americans must ask themselves why is America plunging into statism (government control of the economy). The statist road of modern times was first paved in the early 20th century by Hitler, Mussolini and the Soviet Union. These regimes used paving stones made of the ethics of self-sacrifice. As these butchers asked for more and more sacrifice in the name of others, the country, the leader, the future - the deaths grew. Selfishness is bad they said; selflessness is good. Why? Why is sacrificing for others or for the planet or for your country considered the good? No one has ever given any answer to that question and Mr. Obama as well has never explained why we must hock the lives of our children and our grandchildren on the alter of what he envisions as sacrificing for the good of our economy for the good of America.
Why must we sacrifice? Why must the government print money out of thin air with nothing to back it up in order to "save" companies that he chooses, build bridges, schools etc. WHEN A POLITICIAN TELLS YOU TO FORE GO, GIVE UP, SACRIFICE, DENY YOURSELF, we should boot him out of office NOT applaud him.
What people need to do in order to live a productive and creative life is to be selfish. And it's a funny thing because every baby is born innately selfish. He is hungry and he cries for food. She is tired and sleeps regardless if you like it or not. He wants to play and learn things and asks a multitude of questions to satisfy his curiosity. She wants to have nice things and toys and later a nice house and a good job and will work hard to achieve a level of success that bring rewards and joy to her life. Why does a person do all this hard work, expend all the effort to grow and achieve? Because human beings are selfish which means concern with one's own interests. If we did not think and consider our "self" we would die. Every hour of every day one must survive by ones wits. And the best political system devised to let people live their lives to the best the their own ability is CAPITALISM.
This does not mean one tramples on others. That is for criminals or people not sure of their own abilities. A selfish person seeks good relationships with family, friends, co-workers because we want companionship, love and good-will. Politicians do not create, produce or DO anything except cause woe and mayhem and this is because they set themselves up as the GOD of the economy, of our children's education, and soon our medical needs. Why? Why do we think and they think they know more than the market place? Why?
When a politician asks for your sacrifice run the other direction and boot them out of office.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Now Why Would Obama Transfer the Census to the Whitehouse?
Now I ask you, why would Obama have the director of the 2010 Census report to him? It smells fishy especially in light of all the power grabbing he's done already! The census is very important as described in John Fund's article at WSJ.
Anything that threatens the integrity of the Census has profound implications. Not only is it the basis for congressional redistricting, it provides the raw data by which government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also uses the Census to prepare the economic data that so much of business relies upon. "If the original numbers aren't as hard as possible, the uses they're put to get fuzzier and fuzzier," says Bruce Chapman, who was director of the Census in the 1980s.
Mr. Chapman worries about a revival of the effort led by minority groups after the 2000 Census to adjust the totals for states and cities using statistical sampling and computer models. In 1999, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Department of Commerce v. U.S. House that sampling could not be used to reapportion congressional seats. But it left open the possibility that sampling could be used to redraw political boundaries within the states....
The Obama administration is downplaying how closely the White House will oversee the Census Bureau. But Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insists there is "historical precedent" for the Census director to be "working closely with the White House."
It would be nice to know what Sen. Gregg thinks about all this, but he's refusing comment. And that, says Mr. Chapman, the former Census director, is damaging his credibility. "He will look neutered with oversight of the most important function of his department over the next two years shipped over to the West Wing," he says. "If I were him, I wouldn't take the job unless I had that changed."(Read the whole article here).
Anything that threatens the integrity of the Census has profound implications. Not only is it the basis for congressional redistricting, it provides the raw data by which government spending is allocated on everything from roads to schools. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also uses the Census to prepare the economic data that so much of business relies upon. "If the original numbers aren't as hard as possible, the uses they're put to get fuzzier and fuzzier," says Bruce Chapman, who was director of the Census in the 1980s.
Mr. Chapman worries about a revival of the effort led by minority groups after the 2000 Census to adjust the totals for states and cities using statistical sampling and computer models. In 1999, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Department of Commerce v. U.S. House that sampling could not be used to reapportion congressional seats. But it left open the possibility that sampling could be used to redraw political boundaries within the states....
The Obama administration is downplaying how closely the White House will oversee the Census Bureau. But Press Secretary Robert Gibbs insists there is "historical precedent" for the Census director to be "working closely with the White House."
It would be nice to know what Sen. Gregg thinks about all this, but he's refusing comment. And that, says Mr. Chapman, the former Census director, is damaging his credibility. "He will look neutered with oversight of the most important function of his department over the next two years shipped over to the West Wing," he says. "If I were him, I wouldn't take the job unless I had that changed."(Read the whole article here).
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Obama Will Not Only Ruin the Economy But Health Care as Well
Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: by Betsy McCaughey
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.
Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.
Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.
New Penalties
Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.
The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
Elderly Hardest Hit...(Read the whole article here).
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.
Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.
Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).
The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.
But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”
Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.
New Penalties
Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)
What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.
The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.
Elderly Hardest Hit...(Read the whole article here).
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Madoff is Kid Stuff compared to Government Plunder
- "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
(Henry Ford, founder Ford Motor Co.) - "Whereas we are being taxed on multiple levels, multiple times, from our single source of income, and from one single source, the government. Such a shame really, during the founding of this country they would not put up with such a tax as a tea tax, yet look at what the American people put up with today." (Rothchild Brothers of London, 1863).
Here is Ayn Rand writing about inflation and the proper role of government more than 30 years ago. And we still haven't learned our lesson as we watch our government grow and grow and grow to a behemoth life sucking monster.
- Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government; by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
- ...in regard to social issues, "inflation" does not mean growth, enlargement or expansion, it means and "undue"-or improper or fraudulent-expansion. The expansion of a country's currency (which, incidentally, cannot be perpetrated by private citizens, only by the government) consists in palming off, as values, a stream of paper backed by nothing but promises (or hot air) and getting actual values, the citizens' goods or services, in return-until the country's wealth is drained. A similar activity, in private performance, is the passing of checks on a non-existent bank account. But, in private performance, this is regarded as a crime-and most people understand why such an activity cannot last for long.
- Today, people are beginning to understand that the government's account is overdrawn, that a piece of paper is not the equivalent of a gold coin, or an automobile, or a loaf of bread-and that if you attempt to falsify monetary values, you do not achieve abundance, you merely debase the currency and go bankrupt. ("Moral Inflation," in The Ayn Rand Letter, III, 12, 1 ) (Also see AynRand.org)
Wafa Sultan's Impassioned Plea for Us to Defend Our Values and Our Country
An interview with Wafa Sultan: (Read) I was a faithful Muslim up to the moment I witnessed the killing of my teacher. That moment heavily traumatized me and I began to dive deeply into the Islamic texts to figure out what is the nature of G-d I have been worshiping. However, I was not able to freely express my thoughts, until I immigrated to the US where I have been exposed to various cultures and religious beliefs. It’s the power of a liberated mind that helps me to become who I am today. I started to publish my articles in Arabic at the first week I was in the US . Prior to Sep. 11th, I was warned by CAIR official not to cross the “red line.” Believe it or not, even here in America they were trying to prevent me from freely expressing myself. However, the tragedy of 9/11 released all inhibitions and fears and helped me to become who I am today.
Saturday, February 07, 2009
Global Warming: Another Way to Put Money down the Sewer
Will Al Gore continue on with his Global Warming Church in the face of our economic meltdown? Well, there are more and more scientists finding courage to come out now with the charge that what the Goracle is claiming is in fact a lie and what he is doing is manipulating the data. Watch this video by the Heartland Institute.
Our Hard Earned Money Going Down the Sewer of Socialism
Wonder if Mr. Obama ever took economics 101? The answer appears to be no based on his speeches and his "stimulus package". But remember this man was brought up on the knees of a socialist and worked in the ACORN community organizing groups in Chicago. This man knows what he is doing: that is bringing America on bended knees to socialism.
Speaking to a House Democratic retreat on Thursday night, Mr. Obama took on those critics. "So then you get the argument, well, this is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill. What do you think a stimulus is? (Laughter and applause.) That's the whole point. No, seriously. (Laughter.) That's the point. (Applause.)"
So there it is: Mr. Obama is now endorsing a sort of reductionist Keynesianism that argues that any government spending is an economic stimulus. This is so manifestly false that we doubt Mr. Obama really believes it. He has to know that it matters what the government spends the money on, as well as how it is financed. A dollar doled out in jobless benefits may well be spent by the worker who receives it. That $1 of spending will count as economic activity and add to GDP.
But that same dollar can't be conjured out of thin air. The government has to take that dollar Some Democrats claim these transfer payments are stimulating because they go mainly to poor people, who immediately spend the money. Tax cuts for business or for incomes across the board won't work, they add, because those tax cuts go disproportionately to "the rich," who will save the money. But a saved $1 doesn't vanish from the economy, unless it is stuffed into a mattress. It enters the financial system, where it is lent to others; or it is invested in the stock market as capital for businesses; or it is invested in entirely new businesses, which are the real drivers of job creation and prosperity.away from someone else -- either in higher taxes, or by issuing new debt in the form of a bond. The person who is taxed or buys the bond will have $1 less to spend. If the beneficiary of that $1 spends it on something less productive than the taxed American or the lender would have, then the net impact on growth will be negative... (Read "The Stimulus Tragedy" at WSJ)
Speaking to a House Democratic retreat on Thursday night, Mr. Obama took on those critics. "So then you get the argument, well, this is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill. What do you think a stimulus is? (Laughter and applause.) That's the whole point. No, seriously. (Laughter.) That's the point. (Applause.)"
So there it is: Mr. Obama is now endorsing a sort of reductionist Keynesianism that argues that any government spending is an economic stimulus. This is so manifestly false that we doubt Mr. Obama really believes it. He has to know that it matters what the government spends the money on, as well as how it is financed. A dollar doled out in jobless benefits may well be spent by the worker who receives it. That $1 of spending will count as economic activity and add to GDP.
But that same dollar can't be conjured out of thin air. The government has to take that dollar Some Democrats claim these transfer payments are stimulating because they go mainly to poor people, who immediately spend the money. Tax cuts for business or for incomes across the board won't work, they add, because those tax cuts go disproportionately to "the rich," who will save the money. But a saved $1 doesn't vanish from the economy, unless it is stuffed into a mattress. It enters the financial system, where it is lent to others; or it is invested in the stock market as capital for businesses; or it is invested in entirely new businesses, which are the real drivers of job creation and prosperity.away from someone else -- either in higher taxes, or by issuing new debt in the form of a bond. The person who is taxed or buys the bond will have $1 less to spend. If the beneficiary of that $1 spends it on something less productive than the taxed American or the lender would have, then the net impact on growth will be negative... (Read "The Stimulus Tragedy" at WSJ)
A Letter to a Politician
Dear Mr. Senator/Congressman,
Thank you for your response to my concerns about the bailout for Detroit. But the simple fact remains is that we then no longer are a capitalist country but a socialist country. The beauty of capitalism is that the market dictates those companies who will fail and those who will prosper and this is the result of millions of rational decisions that buyers and sellers make every instant of every hour of the day. In turn companies are rewarded or not based on what decisions they make in turn. If the government meddles then these signals are corrupted and neither people nor companies know how to act anymore in their own self-interest.
The fact that Toyota outcompeted Ford is a good thing for the economy in that it brought the prices of vehicles down and the buyer won because he got a good product at a reasonable price. So then if this is true the question becomes why does government want to prop up a company that made bad decisions over decades?
There's only one answer and I suspect you know what it is: votes. Companies are created and destroyed by people who make good or bad decisions. Government meddling in the market place always has bad consequences. It's been proven time and again. Thank you for your attention to my concerns about our loss of freedom and the increase of government meddling in our lives.
Respectfully,
Citizen for less government regulations and interference in the economy
The fact that Toyota outcompeted Ford is a good thing for the economy in that it brought the prices of vehicles down and the buyer won because he got a good product at a reasonable price. So then if this is true the question becomes why does government want to prop up a company that made bad decisions over decades?
There's only one answer and I suspect you know what it is: votes. Companies are created and destroyed by people who make good or bad decisions. Government meddling in the market place always has bad consequences. It's been proven time and again. Thank you for your attention to my concerns about our loss of freedom and the increase of government meddling in our lives.
Respectfully,
Citizen for less government regulations and interference in the economy
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Obama is Here- We are Saved At Last
There's an excellent opinion column by Doroty Rabinowitz about Mr. Obama's moralizing tendencies delivered, two days after being elected, "on his most celebrated and ardently pledged campaign promise" new tough limitations on the questioning of terror suspects and "an executive order mandating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the freezing of all detainee prosecutions"...
Mr. Obama I guess thinks himself the anointed one who has come to take us to the promised land. He has the nerve to equate Guantanamo to Auschwitz! One is a place where prisoners are given plenty of food, clean clothing, time outside for good behavior and the certainty that they won't die of starvation, malnutrition, disease or murder versus Auschwitz (I guess I don't have to describe what that is - or do I? I guess we should all remember...Obama is just a politician and a socialist one at that. No there is no saving ourselves with this man or from this man. Quite the opposite if you really look at his "stimulus plan". If you think it's bad now what do you think it's going to be like 4 years from now?
"...Mr. Obama, of course, isn't likely to be deterred by an insurrection from a military court judge. His view of America's new position in the world -- following the announcement of those orders -- was amply clear, its tone familiar. America had entered upon a new day -- we once were lost and now we're found, a people restored to the paths of principle and honor. Hillary Clinton, speaking as secretary of state, would a few days later add her voice to the general thanksgiving for our rebirth, declaring, "There is a great exhalation of breath going on in the world."
".leader now in the White House is in every respect the person he seemed on the campaign trail: a man of immense moral certitude, prone to an abstract idealism, and pronouncements that range between the rational and the otherworldly.
"...It's impossible to know what kind of history Mr. Obama has been reading but this much at least is true -- the generation he describes knew the importance of sturdy alliances all right. There was that one, for instance, between the American leader, Franklin Roosevelt, and the British, Winston Churchill. Both of them, along with their countrymen, were driven by one enduring conviction -- that fascism should be eradicated from the face of the earth and a total war of destruction waged on Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany until their surrender. It would be hard to find, in their pursuit of that purpose, any hint of that tempering quality of humility and restraint. Not that it isn't entertaining to imagine Roosevelt extending the hand of friendship and conciliation to Hirohito, or Churchill proposing to raise a glass and talk things over with Hitler." (READ)
Mr. Obama I guess thinks himself the anointed one who has come to take us to the promised land. He has the nerve to equate Guantanamo to Auschwitz! One is a place where prisoners are given plenty of food, clean clothing, time outside for good behavior and the certainty that they won't die of starvation, malnutrition, disease or murder versus Auschwitz (I guess I don't have to describe what that is - or do I? I guess we should all remember...Obama is just a politician and a socialist one at that. No there is no saving ourselves with this man or from this man. Quite the opposite if you really look at his "stimulus plan". If you think it's bad now what do you think it's going to be like 4 years from now?
"...Mr. Obama, of course, isn't likely to be deterred by an insurrection from a military court judge. His view of America's new position in the world -- following the announcement of those orders -- was amply clear, its tone familiar. America had entered upon a new day -- we once were lost and now we're found, a people restored to the paths of principle and honor. Hillary Clinton, speaking as secretary of state, would a few days later add her voice to the general thanksgiving for our rebirth, declaring, "There is a great exhalation of breath going on in the world."
".leader now in the White House is in every respect the person he seemed on the campaign trail: a man of immense moral certitude, prone to an abstract idealism, and pronouncements that range between the rational and the otherworldly.
"...It's impossible to know what kind of history Mr. Obama has been reading but this much at least is true -- the generation he describes knew the importance of sturdy alliances all right. There was that one, for instance, between the American leader, Franklin Roosevelt, and the British, Winston Churchill. Both of them, along with their countrymen, were driven by one enduring conviction -- that fascism should be eradicated from the face of the earth and a total war of destruction waged on Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany until their surrender. It would be hard to find, in their pursuit of that purpose, any hint of that tempering quality of humility and restraint. Not that it isn't entertaining to imagine Roosevelt extending the hand of friendship and conciliation to Hirohito, or Churchill proposing to raise a glass and talk things over with Hitler." (READ)
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Global Warming - a Joke of a Theory
Well, people are starting to get sick and tired of listening about the Global Warming scam and are in fact more preoccupied with real issues such as the mess our economy is in. More and more articles are out there attesting to the fact that the "Goracle" is blowing out a lot of CO2 and that maybe it's time for him to shut up. The following article is in "Dakota Voice".
According to CNS News, it came in dead last in a list of 20 concerns proposed to the American people in a recent survey:
According to CNS News, it came in dead last in a list of 20 concerns proposed to the American people in a recent survey:
Americans are concerned about the economy first of all, and they are tired of the “hype” about global warming, Patrick Michaels, a leading climate change expert, told CNSNews.com.
In a national telephone survey (conducted Jan. 7-11), 1,500 adults were asked to prioritize the issues they thought the government should tackle in 2009.
Among the 20 policy issues people were asked to rate, global warming ranked last. The economy and jobs took first and second places, respectively. Deficit reduction and tax cuts also beat global warming, coming in ninth and 15th on the priority list.
The share of Americans saying that strengthening the nation’s economy should be a top priority has risen from 68 percent two years ago to 75 percent last year, to 85 percent today.
Only 41 percent rated global warming as one of their top priorities, down from 56 percent last year...
..seems people are starting to see through this joke-of-a-theory for what it really is, especially when the economy isn’t doing so well and we can no longer afford to indulge these socialist fantasies.
This idea that human activity is causing catastrophic changes in earth’s temperature didn’t pass the smell-test from Day One, and the more evidence has come in, the more the whole proposition looks like a sham.
From the unreliable weather data, to the historic natural climate variations going back thousands of years, to the warming occurring on on Mars and Jupiter, to the thousands of scientists who miraculously escaped Al Gore’s claimed “consensus,” this dog just don’t hunt.
The Goracle
Al Gore - The "Goracle" - the know it all of climate on earth. He knows all the millions of bits of data points about the incredibly difficult science of climate to proclaim with certainty that there is global warming. Forget the fact that there is in fact a cooling of the planet that has been going on for a few years. But scientists are starting to fight back against this oracle ex-vice President.
"Physics professor William Happer GS ’64 has some tough words for scientists who believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
"“This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda,” Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that’s a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult.” (Daily Princetonian).
"...Happer said he is dismayed by the politicization of the issue and believes the community of climate change scientists has become a veritable “religious cult,” noting that nobody understands or questions any of the science.
"He noted in an interview that in the past decade, despite what he called “alarmist” claims, there has not only not been warming, there has in fact been global cooling. He added that climate change scientists are unable to use models to either predict the future or accurately model past events.
"...The problem does not in fact exist, he said, and society should not sacrifice for nothing.
“I think science is one of the great triumphs of humankind, and I hate to see it dragged through the mud in an episode like this.”
"Physics professor William Happer GS ’64 has some tough words for scientists who believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
"“This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda,” Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that’s a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult.” (Daily Princetonian).
"...Happer said he is dismayed by the politicization of the issue and believes the community of climate change scientists has become a veritable “religious cult,” noting that nobody understands or questions any of the science.
"He noted in an interview that in the past decade, despite what he called “alarmist” claims, there has not only not been warming, there has in fact been global cooling. He added that climate change scientists are unable to use models to either predict the future or accurately model past events.
"...The problem does not in fact exist, he said, and society should not sacrifice for nothing.
“I think science is one of the great triumphs of humankind, and I hate to see it dragged through the mud in an episode like this.”
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