I wonder if the mainstream media will wail at the end of Obama's presidency like the North Koreans at Kim Jung-il's funeral.
H/T: Free North Carolina
Monday, December 29, 2014
Mainstream Media Wails as Obama's Presidency Ends
I wonder if the mainstream media will wail at the end of Obama's presidency like the North Koreans at Kim Jung-il's funeral.
H/T: Free North Carolina
Senator Lindsey Graham Begs at Ugly Dog Party
When I look upon that cesspool known as Washington D.C., it reminds me of middle school. You have the popular kids, who get all the attention, and then you have others who want to be in that clique. The best vehicle for those forlorn nerds to gain attention is to have their faces plastered all over the school newspaper.
Establishment republicans have that “I wannabe
popular” complex. They want acceptance from the Washington D.C. socialites so bad, they’ll sell out their constituents
in a heartbeat just to be invited to the ugly dog party.
Senator Lindsey Graham is one of those ugly
dogs. He slavishly courts the D.C.
clique by selling their talking points.
One of those is threatening conservatives with the usual, “we will lose
the presidency” if we don’t pander to millions of illegal aliens who’ve
violated our laws and sovereignty.
"If we don't at
least make a down payment on solving the problem and rationally dealing with
the 11 million [people in the country illegally], if we become the party of
self-deportation in 2015 and 2016, then the chance of winning the White House I
think is almost nonexistent," Graham said on CNN's "State of the
Union" in an interview posted Sunday.
Graham also
called for a measure to help the "Dreamers," who are people brought
to the U.S. illegally as children. President Obama took executive action in
2012 to grant such people legal status, and then expanded his actions after the
midterm elections to include more people.
"If
the Republican Party cannot muster the political courage to deal with the Dream
Act children in a fair and balanced way after we secure our border, that says a
lot about the Republican Party's future regarding the Hispanic community,"
Graham said. "I don't believe most Americans would fault the Republican
Party if we allowed children who have been here since they're babies to
assimilate into society with a pathway to citizenship after we secure our
borders."
Senator Lindsey Graham has no regard for
American citizenship, his constituents, or the state of South Carolina. He has demonstrated time after time that he
will sell them out just for a chance to be invited to the ugly dog party.
What really takes political courage and
fortitude is to take on the D.C. establishment like a Senator Ted Cruz. Instead, Senator Lindsey Graham rehashes a redux
of Simpson-Mazzoli, a proven policy failure.
Don’t lecture us on political courage,
Senator Lindsey Graham. Go back to your
D.C. doghouse and chew on the scraps your masters have thrown near your dish.
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Senator-Elect Thom Tillis Will Make a Good Establishment Republican
Senator-elect Thom Tillis sat down for an interview
with the Associated Press. Here are some
of the Q & A’s :
Q: Where do you think your policy
interests will lie? Do you have a first bill you expect to file?
A: I think most of my
focus will be very similar to our focus when we first came into the legislature
— get the regulatory environment back to a level where the cost of doing
business and the uncertainty is reduced, because I believe that will create an improvement
in the economy that then makes tax reform and a number of the other things that
we want to do more likely to be achieved.
Q: An issue in the
fall campaign was whether you believed ground troops would be needed in the
Middle East as the end-game strategy to combat the Islamic State. Have you
thought about that anymore?
A: What we've said is
that there's a difference between having American presence advising those on
the front lines that do not have to be Americans. I think that the Middle East
partners have to play a role in protecting their security but I do think that
American expertise is important. And you see when we create a vacuum like we
did in Iraq, that's how we got to the point where we're having to have this
discussion.
Q: Given the president's
executive action on immigration in November, do you feel more or less confident
there will be a comprehensive immigration overhaul?
A: We need to not
overcomplicate the issue. We need to first and foremost have a credible
strategy for sealing the border. What the president has done has actually made
that task even more challenging because by saying that he can grant amnesty —
at least temporary amnesty to some 3 to 5 (million) already here illegally
present. He's sending a signal to those who have not yet come here that maybe
if you get here you'll be afforded the same treatment. So I think it's going to
create more pressure, make the situation on the border more dangerous.
Q: What are the
chances that we will see significant changes to the president's health care
overhaul during the next congressional session?
A: When you talk about
repeal, you also have to think about things that we believe we can do because
they make sense and they don't break the budget. But even that sort of bill
would be vetoed by the president. I would vote for that kind of bill. Whether
or not that will come up I think remains to be seen. I think what you'll see
fairly quickly are legislative actions to repeal the medical device tax, which
is part of the Affordable Care Act, you will see the delay or repeal of certain
mandates ... because they are having negative consequences on small businesses,
so you can start to systematically repeal some of the most onerous provisions
of the ACA before you've got support to replace it entirely.
North Carolina’s new senator will make a
good, establishment republican. Is it
time for the states to call for a constitutional convention? I do believe so.
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Sunday, December 28, 2014
The Obamafuscation Factor
The Obama administration’s “hapless fool” policies
are, once again, praised in the media. If
you want a lesson in sycophancy just watch the talking heads effervesce over
the genius of our president and his troop of bureaucratic monkeys. There should be a new term for this kind of
political spin. How about the
Obamafuscation factor?
Recently, the mainstream media had an orgasm over a
reported 5% GDP growth in the third quarter.
Great isn’t it? Not quite. What they didn’t tell us is where Americans
were spending their money. Guess where
all that hard earned cash went to. That’s
right healthcare. Zero Hedge published
the following graph:
Not only were libtard, talking heads praising this misleading
report, they also attributed lower gas prices and the collapse of the ruble to our
feckless leader’s energy policies. Anyone
worth their salt knows the Obama administration has an axe to grind when it
comes to conventional energy. The EPA
has practically declared a war on the oil, gas and coal industry. We can attribute this oil boom to fracking on
state and privately owned lands. The
federal government had nothing to do with it, yet, they and their minions claim
all the credit. Nola.com writes:
President Barack Obama and his left-wing environmental allies
have declared war on America's energy sector. That's not hyperbole, according
to a
Senate committee's minority report; it's a quote.
"Setting the Record Straight:
Hydraulic Fracturing and America's Energy Revolution" the report
Republican staffers on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
released, sounds as dry as kindling. But it makes for some scary Halloween
reading.
The report harshly criticizes the Obama
administration's duplicity with energy production and supply. While publicly
extolling the benefits the United States has reaped from fracking, the
administration has done all it can to undermine it and other techniques.
The war is conducted on two fronts. One
involves limiting the land involved. Many green extremists want energy supplies
kept in the ground and when it comes to federal land Obama's bureaucrats are
doing what they can to help.
"The Obama Administration has granted only half the amount
of leases compared to those granted under the Clinton Administration and a
third less than those granted under the Bush Administration," the report
says.
Citing government statistics, the report
notes a 6% fall in oil production and a 28% fall in natural gas production on
federal lands between 2009 and 2013.
The second front involves mobilizing the
federal bureaucracy to gum up the works and trump state management. The
regulatory overload makes it much harder to get a drilling permit and much more
expensive to operate.
And finally, the coup de grace, King Obama declares he will, by
executive order of course, normalize relations with Cuba. This president has a bad habit of aiding our
enemies, while at the same time, alienating our allies. This should be a relief to Cuba’s benefactor,
Venezuela. That regime can no longer
afford to subsidize its totalitarian compatriot. But now, because of another misguided and
hapless policy, the Obama gives these two regimes a reprieve.
At some point and time, we have to ask ourselves, whose side
are these people on? We can only thank
God for American ingenuity and perseverance.
As long as we have that, this country can endure all the Obamafuscations
this administration and their minions in the media throw at us.
Obamacare Medicaid Scheme Diminishes Health Care Access
Once again, critics of Obamacare have proven to be
prescient. Anyone with half a
functioning brain could have predicted Democratic promises were based on
lies. Here in North Carolina, liberals
spent the past four years protesting at our state's capitol, demanding
legislators expand Medicaid coverage. They insisted the federal government was going
to pay 90% of the cost, infinitum. Skeptics
realized the implications of expanding this program and warned that health care
access would diminish. Well guess
what? It’s happening. The New York Times reported the following:
WASHINGTON — Just as millions of people
are gaining insurance through Medicaid, the program is poised to make deep cuts in
payments to many doctors, prompting some physicians and consumer advocates to
warn that the reductions could make it more difficult for Medicaid patients to
obtain care.
The Affordable Care Act provided a big increase in Medicaid
payments for primary care in 2013 and 2014. But the increase expires on
Thursday — just weeks after the Obama administration told the Supreme Court
that doctors and other providers had no legal right to challenge the adequacy
of payments they received from Medicaid.
The impact will vary by state, but a study by the Urban Institute, a
nonpartisan research organization, estimates that doctors who have been
receiving the enhanced payments will see their fees for primary care cut by 43 percent,
on average.
Stephen Zuckerman, a health economist
at the Urban Institute and co-author of the report, said Medicaid payments for
primary care services could drop by 50 percent or more in California, Florida,
New York and Pennsylvania, among other states.
And guess who’s going to make up that cost. You can expect an avalanche of lawsuits by
special interest groups demanding states pay for the difference. Don’t doubt it, it’s already happening.
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Obama Admin Funds Executive Orders Through Fees and Penalties
How can the U.S. Congress make itself irrelevant? Let’s count the ways. The Constitution specifically dictates
legislative powers are exclusively granted to this branch of government. Yet, Congress creates agencies and confers
upon them regulatory powers that have the force of law, therein bypassing the
legislative process. This was deliberately
done with passage of the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946.
Under Article One, Section Seven all bills for
raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives. This was done to ensure our representatives,
and by extension the citizens of this country, had control over policies by
using the power of the purse. Yet,
Congress conferred upon these federal agencies the ability to create, implement
and collect fees and penalties, in effect, funding itself without having to go
to Congress with hat in hand.
The Obama administration has mastered exploiting
federal agencies in pursuit of its radical agenda. The president’s immigration policies do not
have Congresses approval, which by the way, is dictated under Article One,
Section Eight. These totalitarians
openly brag that they don’t need funding from Congress. They will get all the money they need from
collecting fees from illegal aliens. The
Washington Examiner reported the following:
The Obama administration is spending nearly $50 million to hire
and house 1,000 new federal workers to process immigration cases after
President Obama announced that he would unilaterally protect up to 5 million
illegal immigrants from deportation.
The Citizenship and Immigration Services
agency will devote $40 million to annual salaries and almost $8 million a year
to the lease of a new building just outside Washington, in which employees will
review the claims of illegal immigrants who apply for newly protected status,
according to the New York Times.
In recent weeks, critics have warned
that Obama’s executive action would further increase the federal bureaucracy,
leaving taxpayers on the hook for the expansion of immigration services
“They are in the process of hiring 1,000 full-time staff to
quickly approve applications for the president’s illegal amnesty, which will
provide work permits, photo IDs, Social Security and Medicare to illegal
immigrants — all benefits rejected by Congress,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.,
said earlier this month. “This action will mean that American workers, their
sons, their daughters, their parents, will now have to compete directly for
jobs, wages, and benefits with millions of illegal immigrants.”
The Obama administration counters that
the fees recouped through the president’s executive action eventually will
cover the cost of the new federal workers
Congress needs to take power away from these federal
agencies. They can start by passing a
law mandating all fees and penalties are to go into the general fund. This will help ensure these government
entities do not abuse their powers by imposing punitive fees upon a hapless
citizenry as a means for funding, and will give power of the purse back to
Congress where it belongs.
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Monday, December 22, 2014
'Twas the Congress Before Christmas
By T.L. Coston
‘Twas the Congress before Christmas and all through
the House
Establishment Republicans were stirring along with
the louts;
Teat Squawkers gathered in the halls, all fret with care
In the hopes that staffers would grant them taxpayer wares
Citizens were soothed by the midterm elections
As visions of prosperity danced in their direction
Then I and my fellow Americans settled down for a
long, holiday cheer
Busying ourselves with family, friends and maybe a
beer
When on Fox News there rang such a clatter
I leaped from my couch to see what was the matter
Away to the T.V.
I made a dash
Grabbed the remote and gave it a blast
Statuary Hall was full of buzz
As reporters and politicians mugged about
Cameras and lights filled the place
While media
whores pan-caked their face
D.C. courtesans rushed around in delight,
“Good news! The federal government has a green light!”
The House passed Cromnibus with the president’s help
A whopping $1.8 trillion will give you a yelp!
And so the D.C. Establishment wins again
As Americans are saddled with $18 trillion in debt
So enjoy your holidays the best you can
Just remember we’re too stupid to understand
File away another fiscal year
Please…please don’t shed a tear
Republicans say another election has to be won
And so the campaign must go on
So envision a distant capitol with no care, or class
They are wiping their asses with all of our cash
And from the White House they stand and cheer,
“Screw you, voters!
And your Happy New Year!”
Monday, December 1, 2014
Sheriff Clarke Calls Out Race Vulture, Eric Holder
Wow! Sheriff Clarke nailed it. We need more men like him to come forward and confront these race vultures.
Louisiana Democrat Encourages Voter Fraud
If you’re a democrat go ahead and vote as often as
you like. Hell, no one is going to
prosecute you. You belong to an elite
club of liars, cheats and thieves.
Townhall.com reported the following:
Video of Opelousas,
Louisiana Mayor Don Cravins Sr.'s Nov. 3 remarks show him telling a crowd in
his home town that 'if
you early voted, go vote again tomorrow. One more time’s not going to hurt.'
Louisianans, like Americans in many states, had the option of either voting
'early' or showing up on Election Day. Taking advantage of both options would
be a crime. And for voters worried about criminal fraud charges, Cravins said
he had an insurance policy – the re-election of a Democratic district
attorney...'Tomorrow we’re gonna
elect Earl Taylor as the D.A. so he won’t prosecute you if you vote twice,'
Cravins said. Taylor won a fourth term on Nov. 4...Cravins' remarks were met
first by laughs and then by wild cheers. Mary Landrieu's campaign did not
respond to a request for comment.
And don’t worry
about the mainstream media reporting any wrong doing. They’re too busy reassuring Americans there
is no voter fraud.
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Rich Lowry's Grimm Ferguson Fairy Tales
Did Rich Lowry say what I think he said? My God!
The horror! Andrea Mitchell
rightfully gasped. What kind of man
would suggest anyone should respect the law, or law enforcement?
“If you look at the
most credible evidence [of Michael Brown's death at the hands of a Ferguson,
Mo., police officer], the lessons are really basic,” Lowry said during an
appearance on Meet the Press.
“Don’t rob a convenience store. Don’t fight with a policeman when he stops you
and try to take his gun. And when he yells at you to stop, just stop.”
What kind of Grimm’s fairy
tale does Mr. Lowry think this is anyway?
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That Beer is Racist!
It’s getting to the point where you can’t have a
beer in your local pub without some sniveling, liberal weenie exclaiming
racism, or some other politically correct nonsense. Take a look at the above sign. Do you see the offensive slogan?
Take a look at this glass. I don’t hear Germans complaining about being
stereotyped for their weird sexual proclivities. If you want a good dominatrix flick, you’ll
be sure to find a German woman dressed in skin tight latex with a whip. Just saying.
Political correctness is getting so bad that
home builders are renaming master bedrooms to owner’s suites. Welcome to the brave new world of who can be
the most offended.
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The Birthright of Black Degeneracy
In what world does a thug like Michael Brown become
a martyr? Is he supposed to be the Rosa
Parks of today’s civil rights movement?
Let’s be frank, this guy strong armed a grocery store clerk and stole a
box of cigars. He later attacked a police
officer with the intent of killing him, and yes, forensic evidence backs up eyewitness
accounts. This cannot be an isolated
incident. I have no doubt Michael Brown had a history of
this kind of behavior. Yet, this is the
man blacks are hanging their hat on.
It is sad that the President of the United States is
a cheerleader for lawlessness. His
Attorney General, Eric Holder, who is complicit in the murder of U.S. border
patrol agents, incited a riot when the Grand Jury didn’t indict. On top of that, this administration is in cahoots
with racist like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan.
We are
hearing all sorts of excuses for the breakdown of the black community. So much so, liberals have claimed it an
institution. They want to embrace this
felonious culture, but only if it’s black.
Whitey has no excuse for their crimes because they were and are oppressors. Blacks can murder, steal and
cause mayhem however, whenever and wherever they choose because it’s their
birthright.
A couple of weeks ago, the Charlotte Observer
published a New York Times op-ed by Brent Staples in which he bemoaned the loss
of black political power because 1 out of 13 has felony convictions. And you guessed it; it’s all whitey’s
fault. According to Mr. Staples, our
election laws were designed by white supremacists to keep the black man
down. Here is the reasoning for allowing
murderers, rapist, and thieves the right to vote:
The debate looks a lot different in Maine and
Vermont, states where there are no black populations to speak of and racial
demonization does not come into the equation. Both states place no restrictions
on voting rights for people convicted of even serious crimes and have
steadfastly resisted efforts to revoke a system that allows inmates to vote
from prison.
Maine residents vigorously debated the issue last
year, when the Legislature took up — and declined to pass — a bill that would
have stripped the vote from some inmates, whose crimes included murder and
other major felonies. Families of murder victims argued that the killers had
denied their loved ones the right to vote and therefore should suffer the same
fate.
Those who opposed the bill made
several arguments: That the franchise is enshrined in the state Constitution
and too important to withdraw on a whim; that voting rights keep inmates
connected to civic life and make it easier for them to rejoin society; that the
notion of restricting rights for people in prison was inconsistent with the
values of the state.
A former United States marshal and police chief argued that
revoking inmate voting rights would strip imprisoned people of dignity and make
rehabilitation that much more difficult. The editorial page of The Bangor Daily
News argued against revocation on the grounds that, “Removing the right of some
inmates to exercise their legal responsibility as voters in a civilized society
would undermine that civilized society.”
There is dignity in being a convicted felon? I thought the point of a penal system was to
separate and punish those who’ve demonstrated their unwillingness to participate
in a civil society. They are in prison
because they are not civilized. Why would
we give them a right to vote? Is there a
bottom to the Democratic Party’s cesspool?
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Black Friday 1983 vs. NOW - "People" vs. Animals
Why anyone would want to subject themselves to this mania is beyond me. I remember HAVING to go to Walmart after one of these maelstroms. The store was completely trashed.
I don't recall anyone getting killed this year by a stampede of bargain shoppers. There's something to be thankful for.
H/T: NC Renegade
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
EPA Grinch Steals Prosperity
The EPA wishes all Americans a crappy Thanksgiving,
a loathsome Christmas, and an impoverished New Year. While everyone is stuffing their faces and
making merry with friends and family, the Greenie Grinch is busy raiding our
wallets and future prosperity by pushing an avalanche of regulations onto
Whoville. The Daily Caller reported the
following:
“It’s
become an unfortunate tradition of this administration and others to drop these
regulatory agendas late on a Friday and right before a holiday,” Matt
Shudtz, executive director of the Center for Progressive Reform, told The Hill
newspaper.
The White House’s regulatory agenda for
spring 2014 was released on the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, when millions
of people set out on weekend getaways or family vacations.
“It’s unfortunate because it’s an update
on protections for Americans of all stripes,” Shudtz told the Hill. “It
lays out the administration’s plan and it deserves more attention.”
But the White House may have a good
reason to do so because its Unified
Agenda for fall 2014 includes
some 3,415 regulations– more than the last regulatory agenda, and one that
includes 189 rules that cost more than $100 million.
This is fast becoming a holiday tradition Americans
can’t afford.
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Ferguson Looters Destroy Community
It was a scumbag Christmas in Ferguson, MO. Rioters couldn’t wait for black Friday to do
their holiday shopping. They just needed
a pretense to loot. All I have to say is
thank God illegal aliens won’t do the jobs some black people are willing to do.
I don’t understand why anyone would want to destroy
their own community for any reason whatsoever.
There is no excuse for it. Hell, there was a woman raiding a liquor store
with her child. There is something
seriously wrong within the black community.
These looters didn’t care if businesses were
sympathetic to their cause. They didn’t
care if business owners were black. They
just went on a mindless rampage. Here is
a black woman who lost everything, and for what?
Liberals claim inner cities are food deserts. Well, Ferguson has become an urban
desert. Why anyone would want to open a
business in that hellhole is beyond me.
As far as I’m concerned, members of that community can take a long bus
ride to do their shopping from now on.
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North Carolina Smacks Gruber the Grafters Hand out of Taxpayer Cookie Jar
Gruber the Grafter had his paws in North Carolina’s
cookie jar as well. The con never ends
with this guy. We don’t have a state
exchange; yet, this guy was able to worm his way into our treasury. WRAL reported the following:
RALEIGH, N.C. —
State Auditor Beth Wood has terminated a contract with MIT economics professor
Jonathan Gruber after the health care policy expert came under fire for
controversial comments involving how the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010.
"We can’t use you on a project where you
have a bias or where people might even think you have a bias," said Bill
Holmes, a spokesman for Wood, who was traveling out of state on Thursday and
was unavailable for comment.
The auditor's office will end up paying Gruber
$100,000 for work that has already been completed.
Makes you wonder what this grafter and his
democratic accomplices were up to.
A London Cabbie and a Muslim
A devout Arab Muslim
entered a black cab in London. He curtly asked the cabbie to turn
off the radio because as decreed by his religious teaching, he must not
listen to music because in the time of the prophet there was no music,
especially Western music which is the music of the infidel.
The cab driver politely switched off the radio, stopped the cab and opened the door.
The Arab Muslim asked him, "What are you doing?"
The cabbie answered, "In the time of the prophet there were no taxis, so piss off and wait for a camel."
H/T: Ray
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Southern Californians: Buffalo Has Nothing on Us
Buffalo has nothing on Southern California when it comes to harsh weather. You have to love Judge Napolitano’s laugh.
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Hillary Clinton's Prescient Speech on an Imperial Presidency
Hillary Clinton knows abuse of power when she sees
it. Her husband’s administration flouted
the law and basic human decency during his tenure. Of course, Slick Willie’s transgressions were
just “a rightwing conspiracy.” Sure it
was.
Pant Suit’s up close and personal experience in
smearing political and personal opponents is legendary. Hell, she accused President George W. Bush
for pushing the bounds of the presidency.
He didn’t do anything remotely as skanky or unlawful as her
husband. Still, we have to give her
credit for defining an imperial president. The Washington Free Beacon relates:
“Unfortunately
our current president does not seem to understand the basic character of the
office he holds,” Clinton said of Bush in April 2008. “Rather than faithfully
execute the laws, he has rewritten them through signing statements, ignored
them through secret legal opinions, undermined them by elevating ideology over
facts. Rather than defending the constitution, he has defied its principles and
traditions.”
Eerily enough, Clinton’s jab at Bush more than six years ago is
equally true of Obama today. Nevertheless, Clinton has continued to adhere to
the Democratic party line and support the president as he takes “unconstitutional” action (his words) to advance his own
progressive agenda.
“He has abused
his power while failing to understand its purpose,” Clinton said in 2008. “This
administration’s unbridled ambition to transform the executive into an imperial
presidency in an attempt to strengthen the office has weakened our nation.”
Yet, Hillary Clinton is okay with Barack Obama’s
power grabs. Isn’t that interesting?
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Maryland Coerces Churches into Preaching Global Warming Gospel
One of many complaints our founding fathers had with
England was paying taxes to support the Anglican Church. Many colonists found it a burden to support
their local ministry and a state sanctioned religion. That is what the Establishment Clause in the
First Amendment was really meant to prevent before it became bastardized by
progressives.
Maryland may not have an official green energy
religion, but they have exacted a tax on those who don’t preach their
gospel. It could be one of many factors
why a deep blue state elected a republican governor.
Now
Prince George’s Country is offering a way for churches to avoid paying the tax,
which is estimated to be an average of $744 per year for them — preach “green”
to their parishioners.
So far 30 pastors have agreed to begin
“‘green’ ministries to maintain the improvements at their churches, and to
preach environmentally focused sermons to educate their congregations” to avoid
being hit with the tax, The
Washington Post reports.
Prince George’s County’s Department of
Environment director Adam Ortiz told WBAL Radio churches “don’t have to preach,
per se,” that they could avoid the tax if they “provide educational programs to
teach them (parishioners) about how to be more sustainable. And to help them
engage in grant programs and other way that they can control the runoff from
their property.”
Man-made global warming is a religion to
progressives. This tax is a means to compel churches into preaching their gospel.
Survey: Man-Made Global Warming Not Settled Science
The man-made global warming graft is just about
up. A new survey demonstrates there is no
consensus on what was supposed to be settled science:
A new Purdue University report and survey of on global warming
finds that just 50 percent of scientists blame human causes, not the
NASA-endorsed and widely distributed claim of 97 percent.
In a survey of nearly 7,000 in the agriculture field, found that
most scientists agree that climate change is happening, but just 50.5 percent
blame mankind.
“More than 90 percent of the scientists
and climatologists surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring,
with more than 50 percent attributing climate change primarily to human
activities,” said the Purdue report published in the authoritative Bulletin of
the American Meteorological Society and highlighted by MRC Business.
“Contrary to the
repeated insistence of both climate alarmists and the media, scientists do not
all agree on the standard climate alarmism talking points,” said MRC’s review
of the scholarly report from one of the nation’s leading ag schools.
I wonder when we can
expect predictions on the coming ice age and why humans (Americans) are responsible for it.
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Senator Harry Reid Begs Mercy from Republican Majority
Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has chutzpah. Now that he and his party have been relegated
to minority status, he wants republicans to afford them what was denied during
his tenure as majority leader:
“I
would hope we could have an open amendment process and ample debate on that
legislation,” Reid said on the floor.
Reid’s comments are close to a complete reversal compared to the
way he has run the Senate, one that appears to be driven by the minority-party
status that Democrats will hold next year. Reid has routinely blocked GOP
senators from offering amendments on dozens of bills over the last few years,
using a maneuver that blocks Democratic amendments as well.
That practice has essentially shut down the Senate as a
legislative body, and turned it into a chamber that mostly rejects or ignores
House-passed bills, except for must-pass spending bills or other critical
measures.
Reid has stopped consideration of amendments through a process
called “filling the tree.” In that procedure, Reid fills up all the designated
amendment slots with his own token amendments that make tiny changes to the
bill, which prevents others from having their own ideas considered when the bill
comes up.
That maneuver has often prompted Republicans to vote against
even considering legislation, since there’s no hope they can make any changes
to it.
What a POS!
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