Interesting Items
Alex Gimarc
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Interesting Items 10/26 –
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue:
1. Kinston
2. Pay Czar
3. Lawsuits
4. Critical Habitat
1. Kinston. The Obama Holder (In)Justice Department overruled voters in
Kinston NC last week by overturning a ballot initiative passed by over two
thirds of the local voters that removed party affiliation from ballots for
local elections. Kinston is a predominately black city that is still covered
by the antiquated Voting Rights Law that requires Department of (In)Justice
approval of any and everything involved in local elections. The ruling went so
far as to note that party identification was absolutely necessary so that
voters could elect candidates of their choice, who also happen to be democrats
and predominately black. This continues the politicization of the (In)Justice
Department under Obama and Holder that they first demonstrated by tossing out
the convictions of two Black Panther Party members in Philadelphia for voter
intimidation at a predominately black precinct in last November. It appears
that the 2010 election will be for All
the Marbles as the leftists desperately attempt to retain their congressional
majorities. They will do any and everything possible to retain those
majorities – including serial voting fraud, intimidation, whipping up racial
violence, and trying to trigger the most violent act possible just before the
election to use as a vehicle to ensure their reelections. While this one may
not be for all of them, it may very well be for most of them and the Obama
administration is doing everything possible to ensure the success of their
candidates. They are no longer bounded by either the law or the constitution.
As such, they are tyrants steadily, unflinchingly infesting the body politic
and encroaching upon our liberty and freedom. And they must be stopped.
2. Pay Czar. Last week, Obama’s unelected and unaccountable Pay Czar, Kenneth
Feinberg announced significant pay and benefit cuts for 175 executives at
banks, investment firms and auto manufacturers that were either bailed out or
took TARP funds. By weeks’ end, he was working to extend those cuts to other
executives and board members in corporations not covered by TARP. The basic
question is this: Where in the Constitution does ANY administration have the
authority to set or modify compensation for any individual who does not work
directly for the US government? And even if the individual works for the feds,
congress must set that compensation by law when it appropriates the funds.
Feinberg is not the only one doing this, for Fed Chairman Ben Bernake proposed
a similar set of pay and compensation guidelines for every institution
regulated by the Federal Reserve, up to and including US subsidiaries of
foreign banks and other financial
institutions. The obvious question is to ask precisely where the Fed gets its
authority to regulate compensation. Nobody knows. And to date, nobody is in
court suing the feds, as they fear the regulatory payback against their
institutions for standing up for their contractual and constitutional rights.
Note that no small number of banking and investment institutions did not want
to take TARP dollars and were strong-armed into accepting the term sheets by
former Treasury Secretary Paulsen and Bernake a year ago. Now that forced
acceptance is being used as a vehicle to remove the top management and replace
it with people who are cronies or friends of the Obama administration – sort of
the typical Chicago-style housecleaning and jobs for supporters program. These
companies are going to be run into the ground, while enriching the Obama
supporters put in charge of them – not unlike what the Clinton administration
did with appointees to run
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the mid-1990s. The bad news is going to be that
we are going to end up paying for it many times over. By weeks’ end, it
appears that the proposed limitations are full of loopholes sufficiently large
that nobody will see an actual pay or benefit cut. Still the basic question
remains: What gives these people the right to do this? And if they are
successful with this, what are they going to come after next?
3. Lawsuits. Ilya Shapiro writing on a Cato Institute blog last Wednesday
described an opinion by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that would let a
class action lawsuit alleging manmade global warming caused by carbon dioxide
and other emissions raised temperatures along the Gulf Coast, contributing to
Hurricane Katrina’s strength and causing increased property damage as it
lawn-mowed New Orleans and southern Mississippi and Alabama in 2005. Targets
in the class action lawsuit include local oil and natural gas producers,
refineries, power companies, and other current targets of jackpot justice. I
expect the lawyers involved hope to extort consent agreements from the targets
as they open up yet another avenue for large paychecks to the trial lawyers.
The three judges involved in allowing the case to proceed were described as the
worst currently sitting on the Fifth Circus. The writer believes that the case
will be thrown out should the
defendants request an en banc hearing by the entire Fifth Circus on the
grounds that the plaintiffs do not have standing to bring such a class action
lawsuit. Perhaps there is another course of action. Given that the first
basic objective of a trial is the finding of fact, and given that the current
global warming hysteria is based on a card house of lies, fudged data, secret
algorithms, circular logic, and poorly placed or non-existent data collection
locations, it may be time to take this entire mess to trial; st art from ground
zero – the fact that ground temperature data collection sites here in the US
are almost universally placed in unsuitable locations, and build from there.
During discovery for instance, the defendants could uncover Mann’s “Hockey
Stick” cherry picked data and secret algorithms that give the same result when
run against randomly generated datasets. Take this entire mess to court. Take
it before a jury. Force
the global wamrists to prove that the last twelve years of measured global
cooling has actually been a warming period. Force them to prove that manmade
carbon dioxide over the last century has heated up this planet. Force them to
explain why the Medieval Warm Period when the Vikings colonized Greenland was
not only warmer than the recent recovery out of the Little Ice Age but had no
connection to manmade global warming at all. This could be a whole lot of fun,
and the expert research for the defense would be provided gratis for the most p
art . Fight this fight. Give the greens and the lawyers that are feeding off
their hysteria what they want, and crush them in court in front of a jury of
their peers.
4. Critical Habitat. The Obama administration continued their war on Alaska
last week with the announcement of a new critical habitat along the northern
coast of Alaska . The intend on locking up over 200,000 square miles of
shoreline and offshore continental shelf in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in a
belt measuring between 5-20 miles wide. The Endangered Species Act requires
the designation of critical habitat once any species is listed as threatened or
endangered. This area is also prime location for offshore oil and natural gas
exploration, with potentially as much oil and natural gas as has been found in
the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. The excuse for this designation is melting Arctic
Ocean ice due to manmade global warming will kill off the polar bear, whose
population has increased by a factor of five since the 1960s when hunting for
them was shut down. What ought the State of Alaska to do? I would suggest
slugging this out in court,
right here in the State of Alaska . Force the feds to prove that the polar
bear is endangered or threatened. Force the greens that are predicting that
Arctic Ocean ice is going to all disappear in 50 years to prove it. Force a
discussion of Arctic Ocean ice coverage during the warming periods of the last
5,000 years. Force a discussion of Arctic Ocean ice over the last four ice age
cycles measuring back 440,000 years. Every single one of these cycles had an
interglacial period, where local temperatures were higher than what we are
experiencing today. Note that polar bears have been around for that period of
time and seem to have come through it without any help. This announcement is
bad policy, based upon fraudulent science, hysteria and scaremongering. It is
time for the State of Alaska to step up to the plate and defend itself by all
means possible.
More later -
- AG
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