Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Plz excuse the delay in getting this issue to you. We lost an integral part of
the Slick network when Jiglu got out of the groups business. If you wish to
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We have also lost contact with Howard Poole who wrote News with an Attitude.
Don’t know if it was a health or computer problem or just plain burn out. If
anyone on this list knows, I’d be glad to share it. He lives in PA.
Interesting Items 11/02 –
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue:
1. Big Green
2. Elections
3. Endangered
4. Withholding
5. Coal
6. Photo Op
1. Big Green. I wrote a column in The Alaska Standard
http://thealaskastandard.com/
a couple weeks ago taking the local greens, the AP and the local fishwrapper
to task for their latest effort to designate Cook Inlet as a critical habitat
for “threatened” beluga whales. The column smoked out the executive director
of one of the self-appointed local green organizations with comments in
opposition. He was pretty good, and picked up a few things that I should have
stated more accurately. But he didn’t want to discuss funding for his
organization, the Cook Inlet Keeper. One of my correspondents, Dennis Oakland
of MatSu Valley News http://matsuvalleynews.com/ forwarded me a copy of the
organization’s IRS Form 990; essentially it’s income tax form for that year.
While it did not list all the contributors, the form did demonstrate that fully
a third of the funding for this organization came in the form of government
grants. Further investigation into their funding led to their web site which
had a page thanking their
funders, which included US EPA, US Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA Fisheries,
Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the City of Homer – funding
from all three levels of government. This organization has not only figured
out how to tap into the firehose sized stream of leftwing foundation grants,
but is also supplementing that money with our tax dollars; all of which is
being used to turn Cook Inlet into a giant park. I expect this funding model
is not uncommon among most if not all self-identified environmental
organizations: Roll out a small education program for The Children; apply for
educational grants to support those program; and use those monies to fund their
obstructionist assault on development, life, livelihoods, jobs, and the future
of all of us.
Should any of you readers want to do similar research, a good place to start
would be GuideStar at http://www2.guidestar.org/ At this location, you can
register for free and download the most recent non-profit 990s. For a
significant monthly subscription fee to the site, you can download other
documents for the nonprofits. These little groups work in the dark, out of
sight, pushing their view of the world with the unknowing assistance of
taxpayers at all levels of government. It is long past time to start shutting
off the public money and defund the left.
Elections. There are elections for governor in VA and NJ tomorrow. Both
elections involve democrat held seats. The VA race appears to be swinging
strongly conservative, with an unabashed conservative currently ahead by double
digits. Things are so bad that the Obama WH went after the democrat candidate
personally two weeks ago for not sufficiently aligning himself with the Obama
WH. They accused the democrat candidate of not listening to WH advice. In NJ,
one of the currently bluest states out there, decades of democrat spending and
corruption may have come back to haunt the incumbent democrat, John Corzine,
former US Senator from NJ and former head of Goldman – Sachs. In a three-way
race, the Republican candidate appears to be edging ahead in local polling.
There is a third candidate who is running to the right of the Republican, who
is likely a democrat shill inserted into the race to split the conservative
vote. Corzine’s
campaign devolved to the point where all he was doing was calling the
Republican fat – which he is – and so what? This race may be outside the
margin of corruption.
The most interesting race is a special election in New York for NY-23
congressional seat. This district is a reliable conservative district. Local
party officials selected a doctrinaire leftist state senator named Dede
Scozzafava as their candidate. The Republican establishment got into the act
and strongly supported her also – even though she did not support a single
conservative position. The NY Conservative Party endorsed a conservative
candidate for the seat, Doug Hoffman, and there has been a three-way race.
During the campaign, Scozzafava’s non-existent support finally translated into
cratering polling and she withdrew from the race over the weekend, quickly and
happily endorsing the democrat candidate. At this point, the conservative
appears to be comfortably ahead in local poling.
The final race is a special election to fill the CA-10 congressional seat.
CA-11 is a Bay Area district, and as such ought to be a very safe democrat
hold. For the majority of the race, the democrat, who is the LtGov of CA,
appeared to be cruising to an easy victory. Over the last few weeks, polling
sharply closed, as the Republican candidate has successfully managed to wrap
the blame for California ’s fiscal disaster firmly around the neck of the
democrat. The impending congressional disaster of ObamaCare is also a
significant issue in this race. Regardless of how any or all of these races
turn out, it appears that the conservative base is nicely spun up, fully
engaged, and may be turning out to change things at the local and state
levels. It will be a matter of time before it impacts things at the federal
level. This is a beginning. Do not be deterred from the task of removing
power from the hands of those inside the Beltway and
returning it to the hands of the citizenry.
3. Endangered. As the wheels of the political wars continue to grind, it
appears that they are going to crush some recent political animals;
specifically the erstwhile RINO (Republican in Name Only) and the sainted Blue
Dog democrat. The conservative resurgence may be in the process of retaking
control of the Republican Party from the moderates on both coasts. As they do
so, expect primaries with self described RINOs to be hotly contested over the
next few years. Democrats in 2006 and 2008 did us a favor by destroying RINOs
on both coasts. It is now up to local conservatives to replace those democrats
with reliable conservatives who have a better memory of where they come from
and why they were elected.
The Blue Dogs in congress have a more difficult path, for while Harry Reid and
Nancy Pelosi both need their votes for ObamaCare and Cap and Trade legislation,
once passed, neither needs them any more. Limbaugh believes that the Blue Dogs
are screwed either way they go. For if they vote with the leadership, they
will never be reelected; and if they vote against the leadership, they will get
no democrat money for their next campaign and will also lose. Sometimes
species extinction is a Good Thing. In this case, it tends to clarify things
in the political world nicely.
4. Withholding. The State of California , still in the midst of a
self-inflicted financial disaster, has resorted to simple thievery to cover the
dollar shortfall. The latest trick is to increase tax withholding from
paychecks statewide by 10%. They promise to refund the extra cash next April.
But earlier this year, they were issuing IOUs for tax refunds due to a shortage
of cash. There is no guarantee that they will do anything else next April. So
the description of this as thievery by Ed Morrissey in Hot Air Saturday is
absolutely correct.
5. Coal. As he promised two years ago, Barack Hussein Obama’s EPA has started
the process of bankrupting everything that uses coal for fuel; starting with
half of our electrical generation. One of the vehicles for this is playing
with permits for surface mining. Since infesting office, the newly led EPA has
held up over 70 surface mining permits on grounds that they would violate
provisions of the Clean Water Act and are therefore subject to increased
scrutiny. Last week they retroactively revoked a mining permit for a West
Virginia coal mine. Should they keep this up, the utilities won’t have time to
be bankrupted by new cap and trade taxation. They will be bankrupted by simple
failure to get coal out of the ground and into the generation units. Hot Air,
Tues.
6. Photo Op. Obama made a midnight trip to Dover AB , Delaware last week to
pay his respects to the fallen. Dover is the receiving point for bodies of
those servicemen who have been killed in action. He also took a contingent of
photographers with him. Apparently only a single family gave permission for
him to be photographed saluting the caskets of the fallen. President Bush and
VP Cheney made continuous visits to pay their respects to the fallen and
comfort their families during their eight years in office. Neither one took a
team of photographers with them on those visits. Expect to see these midnight
photographs in future campaign spots, along with the infamous Air Force One NYC
flyby earlier this year. It is all about the continuous campaign.
More later -
- AG
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not
your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia
State House, August 1, 1776.
Note: Interesting Items can be found at the following locations:
The Alaska Standard http://thealaskastandard.com/
MatSu Valley News http://www.matsuvalleynews.com
District 28 http://www.dist28.com/
subscriber and supporter Elbert Collins at http://thatselbert.wordpress.com/
and the home page: http://home.gci.net/~agimarc
Rod Martin's The Vanguard site is also a long-time supporter of this column:
http://www.thevanguard.org/
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