Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc
Monday, Oct. 20, 2008
Interesting Items 10/20 -
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy -
In this issue:
1. Belugas
2. Redistribute
3. Stevens
4. Mahoney
5. 200,000
6. Cabinet
7. Murtha
8. Ice Pack
1. Belugas. The National Marine Fisheries Service listed Cook Inlet Beluga
whales as an endangered species Friday. This listing was in response to a
series of lawsuits and complaints by local environmental groups – all of which
are supporting democrat candidates for US Senate, House of Representatives, and
the Alaska State Legislature. There are over 100,000 belugas worldwide, mostly
in the Arctic. Cook Inlet has a small population that has decreased from
around 1,300 a few decades ago to as low as 276 (estimated) in 2005. They were
hunted by local native whalers for many years, which many believe led to their
demise. In 2000, hunting was significantly curtailed, and numbers have
increased to 375 (estimated) as of this year. The whalers believe that the
feds are deliberately undercounting belugas, not unlike what they did with the
spotted owl a couple decades ago as an excuse to shut down logging in the
Pacific Northwest. Much the
same thing is expected up here. We expect the greens to use lawsuits to shut
down all development in Cook Inlet; shut down the Port of Anchorage expansion;
shut down the Knik Arm bridge; shut down oil and natural gas exploration; and
eventually going after both commercial fishing and sport fishing. The
Endangered Species Act is long since broken, needs to be repealed or repaired,
and Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has not covered himself with glory by
agreeing to this travesty.
2. Redistribute. Barack Obama let the mask slip a bit last week when he was
asked by an Ohio plumber who wanted to purchase a small business he worked for
if his taxes would be going up. Obama responded that yes indeed, because it
was a good thing to take money from the plumber and give it to those below him
(in income level). This is classic Marxism, redistribute income from those who
can to those who won’t. The entire exchange was captured in audio and video
and has been a prominent part of the campaign since he told the truth. McCain
used the example throughout the last debate to effect. This issue will become
the signature issue of the remaining two weeks of the campaign, and should give
the Republicans a vehicle to win far more than anyone gives them credit for.
As so often happens to Those that Speak Truth to Power, the media, the unions,
and the municipal government of Toledo went after the plumber. By weeks’ end
his business
was shut down, putting the four employees there out of work. His personal
history had been investigated – far more than the personal history of Barack
Obama himself – and smeared across the front pages of papers nationwide. Obama
and the democrats are old fashioned socialists who ought to be kept a long,
long way from the levers of power.
3. Stevens. The Ted Stevens corruption trial percolated along last week with
the prosecution wrapping up their case and the defense presenting its case. As
I see it, it appears that the Veco guys – Bill Allen, et all – used Stevens’
house as free chalet for entertaining themselves while Stevens was out of
town. It was so bad that in one instance, Stevens ‘ daughter dropped by to
spend a couple days in her parents home but had to sleep on the couch because
the bedrooms were full of Veco guys. The prosecution was unable to present any
evidence that Stevens had not paid for everything billed. The grill and
kitchen appliances appear to be gifts intended to ward off a high dollar
lawsuit by Stevens for the Veco guys screwing up the home renovation. Expect
the case to go to jury this week with a verdict. Whatever the verdict, it will
likely determine whether or not Stevens returns to the Senate for another
term. It is high stakes,
guts ball, and Stevens believes he is innocent. We will see.
4. Mahoney. One of the real icky stories in the lead up to the 2006
congressional elections was Mark Foley (R, FL) sending suggestive text messages
and e-mails to male congressional pages in an attempt to pick them up. This
story was used by the democrats to further push their culture of corruption
story line. Republicans lost his West Palm Beach seat to a democrat named Tim
Mahoney who ran on a family values platform. Well it turns out that Mahoney
himself has a long-time zipper problem, having recently paid off a former
mistress over $121,000 in hush money. The payoff was known by Rahm Emanuel (D,
IL) and Nancy Pelosi (D, SF). The lady, who was fired and then threatened by
Mahoney taped a conversation about the firing and payoff and distributed the
tapes. Limbaugh played excerpts of one midweek. Mahoney was having an affair
two years ago while running as the democrat paragon of family values. The lady
fired and paid off was not the
only one having an affair with Mahoney at the time for the firing. It also
appears that Mahoney steered federal money in the form of grants to his
paramours and the companies where they were working. The most ethical congress
in history? Not hardly. More like we are back to the Mark Twain “… that there
is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.” Hot Air, Tues.
5. 200,000. Ohio Secretary of State Janet Brunner is sitting on 200,000
“mismatched” voter registration forms. These are forms that are either not
filled out correctly, incomplete, or have information contained that does not
match. She has refused to provide a list of these ballot registrations to
local polling places so that they might compare what is submitted on Election
Day with what the state has on record. The Ohio Republican Party went to court
in an attempt to force Brunner to provide a list to the polling places and won
an injunction at the Sixth Circuit to force her to do so immediately. The
court issued that ruling. Brunner appealed to the SCOTUS, claiming that she
didn’t have enough time to comply, even though she has been sitting on these
registrations for months. The SCOTUS overturned the injunction on the grounds
that Ohio state law did not allow a private organization like the Ohio
Republican Party to bring such a
lawsuit. As it sits now, Brunner is supposed to follow state law and do her
job. Given that John Kerry lost Ohio by over 170,000 votes in 2004, it appears
that her plan is to allow those 200,000 fraudulent registrations to get turned
into 200,000 fraudulent votes so that Barack Obama will have a chance to win
Ohio in two weeks. Democrats need to be very careful corrupting the voting
process, for if the general pubic starts believing that one of our political
parties regularly cheats, steals, and stuffs ballot boxes, it will not be long
before we start seeing the return of the Vigilance Committees – which is not
the best outcome for any of us.
6. Cabinet. The One started leaking the names of potential cabinet
secretaries last weekend. For your reading pleasure and / or amusement: John
Kerry, Secretary of State (at least it gets him out of the Senate). Chuck
Hagel as SECDEF. Larry Summers as Treasury Secretary. Sleep well tonight.
PowerLine, Sun.
7. Murtha. It’s going to be difficult to get reelected if you are busily
calling your constituents racists, but that’s exactly what Black Jack Murtha
(D, PA) did last week when he noted that people in his district were too racist
to vote for a black guy like Barack Obama. He recanted a couple days later,
but the damage was done. Unfortunately Murtha normally wins his reelections by
over 30%, but he has done some real damage to himself the last couple of years
by running his mouth against the US Marines in Haditha and last week against
his own constituents in PA. Sooner or later this will come back to haunt him.
8. Icepack. I have written before about our cold summer this year. Craig
Medred, writing in the Incredibly Shrinking Newspaper, our local fishwraper,
the Anchorage Daily News Tuesday wrote about a significant increase in the
depth of snow on ice fields statewide. Ever since the end of the Little Ice
Age, there has been a net decrease in land coverage by glaciers and ice fields
on top of the mountains - which you would expect if the climate warms up a
bit. However, when it cools down, the winter snow does not melt off, and
expands the total mass and coverage of the glaciers and ice fields. Last
summer was so cold that there was snow all the way down to sea level around
Prince William Sound in June and the Juneau ice field had as much as twenty
extra feet of snow that did not melt off during the summer. The USGS scientist
interviewed by Medred noted that they had been researching snow depths since
1946 and had not ever seen the increase in
snow depth that he saw this year. The USGS then went on to note that the
difference in average temperatures between the depths of the little Ice Age and
the height of the warmest period was 3-4 degrees. This last summer in Alaska
was about three degrees colder than normal. It doesn’t take much to tip from
toasty warm into Little Ice Age. Once again, I don’t think manmade global
warming is going to be our long term problem in future years. Think Polar
Tech, snow machines and skis.
More later -
- AG
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