Interesting Items
Alex Gimarc
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Monday, November 16, 2009
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue:
1. Whores
2. Double D
3. Russians
4. Copenhagen
5. Villages
6. Iran
1. Whores. Well, the upper house of the Parliament of Whores, the democrat
majority in the senate passed the first cloture vote hurdle to bring ObamaCare
to reality. By a straight party line 60-40 vote Sunday night, they passed a
“managers amendment.” This was the secret bill that Harry Reid had been
crafting in his office, behind closed doors for the last few weeks. It
replaced the placeholder legislation that has been debated the last couple of
weeks. There will be a few more votes between Christmas Day, but this democrat
majority has just deposited an enormous lump of coal in our collective
stockings. As of today, there are no longer any moderate democrats. Every
single democrat voted for this monstrosity. Those that did should be destroyed
at the ballot box in all future elections. They should be destroyed in other
ways also. Payoffs this time around were in the $100 million dollar per year
range for each senator to bring
home. As usual, nobody saw the “manager’s amendment” prior to its
submission. Expect Pelosi to ram this through the House upon their return to
DC in January so that Obama has something to strut and preen about at the State
of the Union address. During the debate up to the initial cloture vote, Harry
Reid instructed his rookies to object to any Republican attempting to speak for
more than 10 minutes. Normally the requests to revise and extend comments are
approved via unanimous consent. For the first time in my lifetime, the senate
majority leader instructed his minions to object and we were treated to a
couple of state controlled media stories pointing out how funny it was for Al
Franken (D, MN) to shut down Lieberman and Mark Begich (D, AK) to shut down
John Cornyn. Be careful what precedents you set as they very well will be used
against you in the not so distant future.
2. Double D. So what do we do when the fascist congress shoved this
legislative travesty down our throats? What options are available to an
aroused and angry citizenry? While lock and load sounds real good when rolling
off the tongue, it is only a last resort. Revolts fail. Revolutions succeed.
We do not want a revolt. What we do want is a revolution. For if the fascist
left wants to change this nation forever, those of us in the majority can do
that also. Dr. Jack Wheeler writing in his To the Point News web site
(subscription) http://www.tothepointnews.com/ suggests we undertake a two
pronged strategy – Defund and Disobey. Defund means that we conservatives only
vote for people that will defund Fedzilla for the next decade or more. If
legislation does not do something specifically described in the enumerated
powers in Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, their vote is no. If the
EPA wants to regulate carbon dioxide,
you shut off their funding. If Obama hires 10,000 new federal employees, you
defund them. If a Clinton appointed federal judge rules that funding for ACORN
can’t be shut off, defund both ACORN and the judiciary. If the Obama
administration is using TARP as a slush fund, you make that pot of money go
away. For the next two years, a conservative majority in congress will not be
able to do anything proactive because senate democrats will filibuster any
change. But all spending originates in the House, and if a conservative
majority in the House does not appropriate money, it will not be spent. The
second prong of this strategy is to disobey. The fascist congress has
empowered the federal bureaucracy to make tens of thousands of new criminal
offenses. It is time to do what Gandhi did, and simply disobey. When you are
arrested, demand a jury trial, stand trial, make your case on enumerated powers
grounds, and ask the jury to nullify the
ruling. Use the Cloward – Piven strategy to collapse the entire federal
judicial / law enforcement system under the weight of 300 million people who
are simply standing up and yelling no at the top of their lungs. Obama and the
fascist congress want to remake this nation? We can do that, though the result
won’t be the fascist Nirvana you are expecting. Given that the laws of physics
also apply to the political world, I expect the result will be most
interesting. To read the entire article, point your browser to the link in the
article and enjoy yourself.
3. Russians. The Russian Institute of Economic Analysis issued a complaint
last week that accused the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University and
the British Metrological Office at Hadley of cherry picking Russian temperature
data in the creation of their global warming temperature databases. Both
pro-manmade global warming groups only used about 25% of the available
temperature reporting stations and threw out the rest. The result of this
cherry picking was to artificially increase overall temperatures in Siberia,
which has shown a warming trend over the last decade according to the carefully
manipulated results out of Hadley and the CRU. When the Russians start
accusing the global warmists of scientific fraud, the situation is becoming
serious indeed. Note that this operation is not currently known to be
controlled by Putin. However, given the rampant corruption in Russia these
days, one always wonders what the Russians may be up
to. One logical observation would be that if things are heating up, the
Russians won’t be able to sell as much oil and natural gas to Europe as they
otherwise would. But it is most interesting to see the Russians piling on.
4. Copenhagen. The One’s second trip to Copenhagen didn’t turn out much
better than his first, when Chicago lost their Olympics bid. This time around,
there was no deal; the Chinese, Indians and Brazilians walked out a couple
times; Hugo Chavez still smells sulphur; Chavez himself got a rock star
reception; The One managed to insult the ChiComs while he was bowing to them;
and most importantly, the Gore Effect was in full force with Copenhagen having
a blizzard during the meeting. There may or may not have been an accord
reached and signed. The third world demanded trillions of dollars in
environmental reparations from the developed nations. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton (Saint Hillary of Chappaqua) offered up $100 billion per year
in reparations. Nobody knows where this money will come from, as Harry Reid
has used most of it purchasing votes for his version of ObamaCare over the
weekend. Overall, this meeting was a disaster, but
at least our Dear Leader looked weak, obsequious, fawning and submissive to
his financial masters in China.
5. Villages. Last week’s vote by the Bristol Bay regional native corporation
to oppose the Pebble Mine triggered a food fight between local village
corporations with the Pedro Bay Native Corporation and the Alaska Peninsula
Native Corporation. Both corporations represent some of the 30 or so villages
in the region. They described Bristol Bay’s action as an attack on their
effort to solve unemployment, high fuel cost and terrible economic problems.
As I described a week or so ago, Bristol Bay’s vote against Pebble was little
more than an “I’ve gots mine, the rest of you can go to Hell” vote by the
commercial fishermen in the region. And that will work well right up to the
point where the salmon don’t return and the commercial fishery crashes, which
it does every 5-7 years. Expect this one to get quite loud before it is all
over. Bring popcorn.
6. Iran. The anti-Mullah revolution in Iran continues to percolate along,
with brutal repression of protests having little effect. The Mullahs are
concerned, as they sent a force of Revolutionary Guards across the border into
Iraq over the weekend to seize and occupy an oil well. The Iraqi response was
predictably loud, but there was little reporting about who did what to whom
afterwards or what the US response to the occupation was. The only thing we
need to know about this cross border incursion is that the Iranians wouldn’t
have needed to do this if they were not very worried about retaining their hold
on power.
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.
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