Jason Hayes – Musing

You know that Obama is going waaaaaay tooooo faaaaar when someone as overtly liberal as Helen Thomas openly states that she is “amazed” at the lengths to which the Obama administration is going to co-opt the media and control the press.

Via Gateway Pundit

It’s good to be the King – or at least the princes and princesses. That way you get to spend tens of millions in taxpayer dollars on date nights, dangerous PR stunts, and upscale junkets/vacations to ritzy resorts and exotic locales.

Want to enjoy special perks not available to any of the great unwashed? Think that your employer doesn’t value your work enough — want a few extra bucks to put away for a rainy day? Want to enjoy a few days with the wife and kids in Pairs, taking in the Air Show? How about a quick $60,000 stopover in Italy? How about a quick $22,000 trip to the Galapagos Islands with the wife and a few friends to “learn about global warming.” If you can imagine it and aren’t ashamed to submit the expense reports, it’s all there for you. Even better, it doesn’t cost you a dime. And best of all, the taxpaying saps out there can’t do a thing about it.

Who cares if millions of those slobs are being laid off. Who cares if they are cutting back on their own spending, canceling their own vacations, and praying each night that they’ll even have a home at this time next year.

You’re the President and/or a member of congress and you (and your staff, and your family, and a few of your closest friends) deserve the very best that their tax dollars can buy.

Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.

The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago. …

The Journal analysis, based on information published in the Congressional Record, also shows that taxpayer-funded travel is a big and growing perk for lawmakers and their families. Some members of Congress have complained in recent months about chief executives of bailed-out banks, insurance companies and car makers who sponsored corporate trips to resorts or used corporate jets for their own travel.

Although complete travel records aren’t yet available for 2009, it appears that such costs continue to rise. The Journal analysis shows that the government has picked up the tab for travel to destinations such as Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Lawmakers frequently bring along spouses on congressional trips. If they take commercial flights, they have to buy tickets for spouses. If they fly on government planes — as they usually do — their spouses can fly free.

Nice work if you can get it. Maybe a few more of us regular folk should start applying for the job.

Here’s a visual representation of how much Mr. Obama’s “stimulus” package has helped our economy. Remember folks, Obama warned us that if we didn’t pass the stimulus bill in February, unemployment could explode to as high as 9%. He promised us that, if we passed his stimulus plan, unemployment would peak out at just under 8%. But with his stimulus bill passed, unemployment in Q2 2009 has raced past his worst case scenario predictions for Q2 2010 and is now sitting at 9.4%. Labor department predictions suggest unemployment will grow to 9.6%. Even worse, in a recent interview, he admitted that it would soon bypass 10%.

Click on the graph for a bigger version

One other thing to consider; Obama and his minions promised us, before the stimulus bill was signed, that the benefits of his stimulus bill would be felt with “weeks or months“. Well, it’s been longer than “weeks or months” and they’re now scrambling to explain away their failure to do anything except make things worse than even their initial worst case scenarios. So, the Obama administration is now saying that they’re going to really ramp up spending over this summer — so watch for all that “stimulating” to really get going later on — and that the his stimulus always really was a “two year plan.” After selling the bill to the American people with the lie that we would see the benefits of the stimulus with “weeks or months,” Gibbs is now claiming that “it’s not all gonna be fixed in 90 or a 100 days.”

More on this from another source,

The Goldwater Institute is coming up with some interesting statistics on just how bad the Arizona government school system can be. Apparently only 3.5% of Arizona high school students can correctly answer six out of a group of 10 questions that were selected from the U.S. Citizenship test.

Here’s the questions and answers. The number in parentheses gives the percentage of AZ government school teens who answered the question correctly. (Try the short test on yourself and your family.) I dropped the ball on the senate election question — not sure why.

1. What is the supreme law of the land?          

Answer: The Constitution (29.5%)

2. What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?

Answer: The Bill of Rights (25%)

3. What are the two parts of the U.S. Congress?

Answer: Senate and House (23%)

4. How many Justices are on the Supreme Court?

Answer: Nine (9.4%)

5. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Answer: Jefferson (25.3%)

6. What ocean is on the East Coast of the United States?

Answer: Atlantic (58.8%)

7. What are the two major political parties in the United States?

Answer: Democratic and Republican (49.6%)

8. We elect a U.S. Senator for how many years?

Answer: Six (14.5%)

9. Who was the first President of the United States?

Answer: Washington (26.5%)

10. Who is in charge of the Executive Branch?

Answer: The President (26%)

As a test, I just went over the questions with my (home schooled) kids and they got 4 out of 10 correct and all felt a little foolish that they didn’t remember the Atlantic Ocean was on the east coast. Slight difference in age though; my oldest is in grade 3. If this test is any measure, they already know as much or more about history and civics than your average AZ teenager.

As I’ve said before, just one more reason to home school.

Classy bunch those New York Democrats. Ignore the fact that they’re acting like a bunch of children by refusing to allow Republicans to have a say in the state senate. Pay attention to their little protest at the end of the video. The one where they refuse to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and actually pull one of their group back into his seat when he tries to stand.

Like I said, classy bunch those NY Dems. But DON’T YOU DARE QUESTION THEIR PATRIOTISM!!!

The CBO releases a report that should have any sensible tax payer more than a little worried.

Now comes the CBO with yet more news of the sort that neither Capitol Hill nor the White House is likely to welcome: its freshly released report on the federal government’s long-term financial situation. To put it bluntly, the fiscal policy of the United States is unsustainable. Debt is growing faster than gross domestic product. Under the CBO’s most realistic scenario, the publicly held debt of the U.S. government will reach 82 percent of GDP by 2019 — roughly double what it was in 2008. By 2026, spiraling interest payments would push the debt above its all-time peak (set just after World War II) of 113 percent of GDP. It would reach 200 percent of GDP in 2038.

This huge mass of debt, which would stifle economic growth and reduce the American standard of living, can be avoided only through spending cuts, tax increases or some combination of the two. And the longer government waits to get its financial house in order, the more it will cost to do so, the CBO says.

We may have wanted “change” in the last election. We now NEED change (and FAST) from Obama’s reckless fiscal policy.

The Washington Post is reporting that the SCOTUS has overturned a 2^nd U.S. Court of Appeals decision that SCOTUS nominee Sonja Sotomayor had endorsed.

The high court has ruled that the city of New Haven, CT acted wrongly when they denied promotions for white fire fighters as part of an affirmative action move to ensure the promotions of minority fire fighters.

Interesting quotes from the SCOTUS and other federal appeals court judges on the 2^nd Appeals Court ruling.

“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the court. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

But the appellate judges have been criticized for producing a cursory opinion that failed to deal with “indisputably complex and far from well-settled” questions, in the words of another appeals court judge, Sotomayor mentor Jose Cabranes.

“This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal,” Cabranes said, in a dissent from the full 2nd Circuit’s decision not to hear the case.

Interesting that Obama specifically singled out a (so-called) justice who traffics in “cursory opinion” and “perfunctory dispositions” to serve as his first nominee to the SCOTUS.

Update: Ed Morrisseey has a good review of the ruling on Hot Air – worth reading.

Update: Laura Ingraham Tweet notes that the entire court — 9-0 — ruled against Sotomayor’s summary judgment of fire fighter’s claims. Therefore, the case isn’t just a 5-4 decision along partisan lines.

Update: Ed Morrissey has added another Hot Air post that points out the Orwellian double speak employed by the Obama administration when it suits their purpose. His post also supports the Laura Ingraham tweet from yesterday.

Not one of the judges upheld Sotomayor’s “quota-friendly” logic. Even Ginsburg could not go along with Sotomayor’s “logic.”

Morrissey also points out that the Obama Justice Dept. filed a friend of the court brief that argued against Sotomayor’s ruling in Ricci. So the same group who is now holding Sotomayor up for a seat on the SCOTUS and arguing that she is a brilliant originalist and a dutiful follower of precedent recently filed a brief against her rulling, arguing that she overreached (judicial activism) and erred badly in her understanding of the law.

The HopenChange crew — the most unique and all around change-y administration with which the country has ever been blessed — is proving the concept that I blogged on a few months back. As we see more and more of their polices come to life, they increasingly look like the third term of GW Bush.

They’ve super-sized the Bush administration’s policy of “abandoning free-market principles to save the free market system.” they’ve retained Gates, promoted Geithner from the NY Fed to his current position, they’ve maintained the Iraq troop withdrawal timetables that Bush and Cheney established, etc. And now, they’ve gone one step further by endorsing the Bush-Cheney policy of indefinite detention of Gitmo detainees. (Whatever happened to freeing them and shutting down Gitmo by next year?)

After attacking and campaigning against the Bush administration for its policy of holding islamist terrorists in the Gitmo detention center, Obama let it quietly leak on Friday night that his administration would be carrying on the same policies he so vociferously denounced during his campaign for the Presidency.

I expect the folks at Hot Air to call him on this latest “switch-o Change-o ™” (remember, it’s not a flip flop when Obama does it)

Jim Geraghty first wrote that all of Barack Obama’s promises come with expiration dates, and broken promises from politicians are nothing new, of course. However, one usually expects politicians — especially those running on hope and change — to either remain true to their professed core values and the issues that fueled the most passion on the campaign trail, or at least explain their change in the daylight. Obama did neither, nor did he apologize to the man he besmirched endlessly on the campaign trail while adopting the policy that Obama most demonized as a candidate.

However, even the mainstream media has now had to (at least momentarily) abandon their policy of defending the ONEs every action.

In yet another sign of political perfidy, the White House of President George W. Bush has drafted a presidential executive order that would allow that double-dealing Republican chief executive to hold suspected terrorist detainees indefinitely.

According to the president’s intentions, such suspects could be detained for long periods of time, virtually indefinitely. Is this really what the nation voted for last November?

Oh, wait. No. According to an exclusive Washington Post/Pro Publica report this afternoon, it’s the refreshing new Democratic administration of Barack Obama that’s now preparing this new executive order to hold certain terrorist suspects indefinitely.

The next paragraph in the LA Times post is positively schadenfreude-ian. Obama’s latest Switch-o Change-o™ has forced the MSM to become Perez Hilton. They’ve actually started calling him the “worst thing I could possibly say to him.” I’ll let them say it in their own words.

This is an obviously inspiring sign of the new style of leadership the Democrat promised and is finally bringing to the White House. As one blogger put it, George W. Obama. And it shows the kind of powerful political pragmatism with which the ex-senator from Illinois approaches this job at such a crucial and globally turbulent time.Strangely, it was leaked to the Post on a slow summer Friday afternoon when it wouldn’t gain much attention.

Of course the MSM — still stuck in the “do whatever you can to protect Obama” rut — tries to paint it as “powerful political pragmatism” instead of “petty political perfidy,” but they actually referred to the chosen ONE as “GW.” Something is horribly amiss.

Step outside yourself for a second and imagine the calls going back and forth between GW Bush and Cheney today. They’ve got to be splitting themselves laughing at Obama’s “powerful political pragmatism.”

Going back to my January blog post once again, we can see that Krauthammer was dead on the mark.

Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman’s rehabilitation took decades. Bush’s will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama.

Switch-o Change-o™, powerful political pragmatism, petty political perfidy … However you put it, Obama lied and is now trying to cover it over by leaking it late on a Friday afternoon. It will be interesting to see how long his protectors in the media allow this to stay in the news.

Via MarkLevin.com – here’s the final list of Republicans who stabbed the country in the back.

The eight who voted for cap and trade are:

Bono Mack (CA) 202-225-5330
Castle (DE) 202-225-4165
Kirk (IL) 202-225-4835
Lance (NJ) 202-225-5361
Lobiondo (NJ) 202-225-6572
McHugh (NY) 202-225-4611
Reichart (WA) 202-225-7761
Chris Smith (NJ) 202-225-3765

Final vote tallies available at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll477.xml

I know that we all spend countless hours worrying about the bills, politics, Obama/Bush, the neighbors, and a host of other terribly important things. But this post at MichelleMalkin.com should give even the most hardened among us pause.

Here is yet another reminder to slow down and appreciate all that life has blessed you with:

It’s worth taking a minute to read the post.

After doing that, stop and ask yourself when was the last time you spent 15 minutes seriously listening to what your kid’s did that day or put down the BlackBerry long enough to play a game with them?

Kudos to the folks at Pixar for remembering what really is important.

This kind of racist garbage needs to be stopped.

Dear Republican types who can’t stand black people,

You’re not helping the defeat-Obama-in-2012 cause by e-mailing idiotic junk like this, especially if your name is Sherri Goforth and you’re a legislative aide to Tennessee senator Diane Black: …

Goforth says she sent it to the wrong list.

It’s not funny and the fact that Ms. Goforth felt comfortable sending out to anyone says something about her and the people on her special, secret, private email list. Seriously Sherri, is this the kind of thing that you joke about when you think you’re in a “safe” place?

If Senator Black has any sense in her head, she’ll thank Ms. Goforth for her past service and send her on her way.

Great article on the supposed health care crisis that Obama intends blow $1.6 trillion (+) “fixing”.

Was reading in Proverbs yesterday and this verse literally jumped out at me. It’s almost like Solomon could see who would be inhabiting DC in 2009, as he was writing this verse.

Proverbs 17:7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

Here’s a powerful letter, written by a regular person named Janet Contreras (from Arizona). She apparently sent it to Glenn Beck and he read it on his show yesterday.

Janet, has hit the nail on the head with this one. The foolishness in Washington has gone beyond parties. It’s gone beyond left and right and moved into the realm of an entrenched elite feeling justified in doing whatever they please with our money and freedoms. Our so-called leaders in both of the big parties have become a national embarrassment and what they’ve done to our country and Constitution is disgraceful.

It’s worth it to reprint the whole letter here. Please read it all and then, if you feel anything approaching the frustration that this lady (and I) feel, tell your Senators and Congressman. Tell your friends and family as well. It’s time to stop this insanity before its too late.

I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I’m not a racist. This isn’t to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don’t you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don’t you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don’t trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ?? what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we’ll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band?Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let’s have it. Let’s say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ?? please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let’s just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I’m busy. I’m busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don’t want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we’re morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we’re so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn’t ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don’t care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

From the mouth of the person who expects to spend the next 30+ years ruling on the most profound and pressing legal issues facing this country, we get the following dim-witted response to a serious question asked by Senator Jim DeMint.

Though Sotomayor was “very personable and engaging,” “I didn’t hear anything today that eased my concerns,” DeMint said in a statement.

“She was unwilling to say the Second Amendment protects a fundamental right that applies to all Americans, which raises serious questions about her view of the Bill of Rights. When I asked if an unborn child has any rights whatsoever, I was surprised that she said she had never thought about it. This is not just a question about abortion, but about the respect due to human life at all stages, and I hope this is cleared up in her hearings,” DeMint said. (emphasis added)

The thought never crossed her mind. Never even considered it.

Forget the fact that Roe v. Wade is only one of the most fiercely debated bits of jurisprudence out there. Forget that the pro-life/pro-abortion issue is on the front page of newspapers every day. Forget that some nut-job just shot and killed that demented and sick abortionist Tiller. Forget all of that. I just never bothered to consider these rights. … Don’t think about them … don’t really care … have better things to do with my time.

This woman is either a pathabological liar, or a complete moron. There is no way that a thinking and aware judge could have completely ignored the issue of whether the unborn have rights.

What is equally offensive about this is that, after hearing her response, both DeMint and Graham are still only “expressing strong reservations” or haven’t “made up their mind” whether they’ll vote to confirm Sotomayor. Mel Martinez is apparently all for her confirmation, as he is publicly “praising her” and saying her confirmation is a “done deal.” (Anything to get that next committee chair right Mel?)

Way to take a stand guys.

Via Arizona In Action Frontlines – thanks!

Interesting speech to the House by Rep. Randy Forbes on the Judeo-Christian heritage of the United States.

This from the guy who Obama trusted as his primary spiritual advisor, pastor, and close friend for over 20 years.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says he does not feel any regrets over his severed relationship with President Barack Obama, a former member of the Chicago church in which Wright was the longtime pastor. …

Asked if he had spoken to the president, Wright said: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office. …

“They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. … I said from the beginning: He’s a politician; I’m a pastor. He’s got to do what politicians do.”

Wright also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not do so for fear of offending Jews and Israel.

“Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing (by) the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel,” Wright said.

Speaks for itself.

We’ve heard over and over again for the past decade-ish that global warming was THE cause behind the increasing intensity of major storm events. We were, of course, all duly saddened by our callous disregard for Gaia Mother Earth’s well being and scared stiff of the hurricanes that would be touching down in Flagstaff and Vancouver.

Now, there’s even more research that proves what a horrific and destructive infestation the human species is. It seems that this new research is showing how global warming is causing wind speeds around the country to slow down.

(As an aside: that’ll be some tough luck for all those people who are sinking millions into wind farm developments. Even more completely off topic and aside: No word yet on how slower winds will still be able to cause more intense storms, but I digress…)

So there you have it. It’s real. It’s happening now. It’s increasing wind speeds and slowing wind speeds at the same time. It’s warming the Earth; it’s cooling the Earth. It’s lessening species diversity while increasing species diversity. It’s making Aunt Tilley’s bunions ache and it’s ALL YOUR FAULT!!

Clearly folks, it is past time to break out the big guns and start executing the deniers for their “treasonous” “high crimes against humanity.” (Snort! Chuckle! and 4-letter word warning)

Hadn’t posted anything about this one before because most of these sorts of things are made up and end up being debunked. However, it appears that the “Open Letter to President Obama” that has been making the rounds was correctly attributed.

It was written by Lou Pritchett, former vice president of Procter & Gamble and author of “Stop Paddline & Start Rocking the Boat.”

Here’s the letter for your edification (and for a reminder that you’re not the only one who feels like this).

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core..

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd
and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O’Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett