Violence from the Left

Violence from the Left
Gary DeMar.
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Further...Cash for Clunkers math:

A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800 gallons of gas a year.

A vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons a year.

So, the average Cash for Clunkers transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.

They claim 700,000 vehicles so that's 224 million gallons saved per year.

That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil.

5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption.

More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about $350 million dollars

So, the government paid $3 billion of our tax dollars to save $350 million.

We spent $8.57 for every dollar saved.

Liberal logic would say that is a great program compared to most of them.

If I were the Devil

If I were the Devil. . .

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's

effort, instead of God's blessings;

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of

the other way around;

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to

leadership;

I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;

I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent

machines to make it convenient;

I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals

are valued more than human beings;

I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was

grounds for a law suit;

I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I

would get sports heroes to advertise them;

I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the

mind of every family member for my agenda;

I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation.

I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family

crumbles, so does the nation;

I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and

movie screens, and I would call it art;

I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that there

lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;

I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who

call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically

correct;

I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and

the Bible is for the naive;

I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is

not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are good enough to get by;

Hmmm...I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.
(Paul Harvey)

My Response to the Census 2010

The following is from Lew Rockwell's website (in courier font--get it?):

I pass this along letter on the census for your information, only. I do not counsel anyone to break the law. Of course, I’m not real sure of what the law is. A direct and literal reading of the U.S. Constitution it seems to me, a non lawyer, is clear as to what the law is: people are legally obligated, only, to cooperate in a head count for political representation purposes. But, my fear, my expectation, even, is that present courts will not interpret the law in that way, and may instead punish census rebels who refuse to furnish additional required (requested?) information. In any case, the following will undoubtedly be of interest to all people concerned with liberty; I offer it exactly as it was sent to me:

Politics and Heated Topics (Part 2)

New York! He was found in New York!
Op-Ed Contributor - We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change - NYTimes.com
Following the recent news that global warming has not been accurately presented to the public (i.e. the outcomes were predetermined and the data was skewed to show likewise), Al Gore has been located. He is fine.  In fact, he even had time to write a piece for the N.Y. Times. Moreover, 'What's a few mistakes?' seems to be the motivation for his Op-Ed. He assures us that, "the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged."  Read: plan on increased, expensive abridgments to your liberties even though the globe has not warmed in 15 years. We still assert that mankind is responsible guilty. This, in spite of world-class experts who can be found to disagree with me--experts who are actual scientists.

Mr. Gore: surely you are aware that Truth and Facts are two distinct things.  Facts can be presented as untruth (like, say, the DaVinci Code), and truth can be presented without facts (e.g. Dickens' A Christmas Carol).

Some questions: 1) If Humankind is guilty, to what Justice do you wish to appeal?  2) When has there ever been a 'consensus' in the history of objective science, particularly on an issue with this much variability (since a 'scientific consensus' is a contradiction of terms)? 3) When there have been consensii, haven't they occurred when those in authority dishonestly colluded to bring the masses under tyrannical control? 4) Have there ever been scandals in the Scientific Community where, for example, they find results because they need money?

***In my view, there is a natural cycle to the Earth.  The climate changes.  This is normal.  Scientists have observed evidence, gathered data, and documented trends supporting this history.  This is an equally plausible explanation (I argue a more plausible one) as the theory of AGW (anthropogenic global warming).  Further, some scientific explanations point to the probability that CO2 levels are a trailing indicator to temperature changes.  So, it seems suspect that mankind is having that significant of an impact, according to an objective reading of the evidence.  In spite of this, I am reading Al Gore's book to have a balanced perspective (a little late to the party, I know; many of the 'facts' have been disputed to cause what is asserted in his thesis, but I want to understand what he is saying anyhow.)***

The Art of Persuasion: How to get no one to agree with you

When talking with others and discussing any issue of merit and/or importance, there is usually a back and forth that goes on between people. For centuries these discourses have usually been peaceful and respectful, following certain unspoken rules of civility (of course, not all the time, but then those would often end in murder).

Politics and Heated Topics (Part 1)

I desire to keep this blog site politics-light. I ran another blog that leaned too far towards the political side of things, and it's not going to do anything amidst the thousands of blogs devoted to politics. Therefore, this blog will be devoted to one man's 'honest threshing' of capital T-ruth.

With that said, there is a lot of talk on the healthcare legislation that is coming down the pipe here in the U.S. Now, the President is