Global Warming Revealed As A Hoax

Hackers got into computers at Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center and released to the public emails and documents written by leading climatologists in several countries. It turns out they were sharing information on how to hide data showing we are experiencing global cooling and discussing ways to discredit those who disagree about global warming.

Here is what the Wall Street Journal wrote:

"We do now have hundreds of emails that give every appearance of testifying to concerted and coordinated efforts by leading climatologists to fit the data to their conclusions while attempting to silence and discredit their critics. In the department of inconvenient truths, this one surely deserves a closer look by the media, the U.S. Congress and other investigative bodies."

The truth doesn't matter, does it?

Obama Health Care, Ya or Nay? The Truth About Canada

Steve Crowder on PJTV goes undercover to find out what health care is really like in Canada. Yes, I know it's another video that doesn't fit in the format for my blog, but it's worth it.

What Is It Like At Gitmo?

Steven Crowder visits Guantanamo Bay and finds out what conditions are really like.

Health Passed The House, But There's More

Don't think that because the House of Representatives has passed health care that they are done taking America away from you. Every day they are hard at work expanding the role of government. You just may not be hearing about it because it is also happening in less visible areas than health care.

Take, for example, HR2868. This is considered to be a Homeland Security bill that makes chemical production plants and refineries safe from terrorism. As they always do, it sounds good on the surface, but when you read what the legislation does it turns out to not be what it seems.

I chose this bill because it is one you are likely not to hear about. It's about industry and only those who are in the industries it regulates are interested. But it still effects you. What it does is put the government in charge of deciding how to run an oil refinery or chemical plant. Who would you rather have in charge? Petroleum engineers who know how things run and what needs to be done to have a safe facility, or the government that runs things based on politics and ideology?

How will this effect you?

The cost of your gasoline and heating oil will go up. The cost of everything that uses chemicals will go up. And you'll be the one who pays. (Government employees will always be sure to give themselves COLA increases to cover inflation. So they'll be okay.)

The safety at these facilities will decrease. Of course that only really effects you if you live near one, or happened to be employed by one. So I guess most of you don't really need to worry about that. (Right!)

Have you ever noticed how there are some things government does well, does very well at. And other things government just can't seem to get right?

Our government does very well protecting us. We have a top notch military and live reasonably safe lives. Protecting its citizens is a God-given responsibility of government. Our government does a good job of this.

On the other hand, our government has not done well eliminating poverty or providing health care. The Great Society was supposed to eliminate poverty. But what it accomplished was to trap people in a cycle of poverty they could not escape. Huge sums of money were spent and poverty was not eliminated. Look at Medicaid and Medicare. Both are going broke. Care is already rationed with doctors in some locations refusing to take Medicaid patients. Plus these two government plans are heavily subsidized by private insurance companies. Hospitals charge you and I more to make up for the low rates they get from Medicare and Medicaid. Eliminating poverty and taking care of people is not a responsibility given to government by God, theydon't do either of these things well.

All governments are from God. Government has certain God given responsibilities. Those are the things government does well. The rest are our responsibilities, in most cases our responsibly through our churches.

Government Needs Crisis

The most critical part of a republic form of government, is that the people must elect Godly, moral people to office. Without that we get a government whose purpose is to serve itself, even when it claims to be operating for the good of the people... even when those in government think they are acting for the good of the people.

A common method those in power use to stay in power is to create a crisis. They are then needed to solve that crisis. But what happens is that their solutions create a greater crisis, providing more justification for retaining their position of power so as to deal with the greater crisis.

What do we see now?

We're told we have a "global warming" crisis. It's an interesting crisis. One problem with this crisis is that we don't have good historical temperature data. No one bothered to keep such records until the 20th century.

Another problem is that if we look at the records for the 20th century what we see is a period of global cooling for the first 1/3 of the century; a period of more moderate cooling during the middle part of the century; and a period of warming for the last 1/3 of the century. Then, for the past ten years we've been in a period of global cooling again.

Those claiming crisis tell us that we only have a temporary respite. Within a year or two the temperatures will start to rise again.

By the way, do you remember what the crisis was in 1975? It was global cooling! There were predictions that food production would start to drop within ten years. You can read about it in Newsweek - April 28, 1975 - Global Cooling.

Cap and Trade - The Ol' Switch-A-Roo

I can't believe the big push that continues on promoting ethanol as way to reduce the consumption of oil. Not only does it not make sense to burn our food as fuel, it does not make sense as a way to reduce carbon emissions. It's another example of government not being able to make sensible decisions -- something that is true any time government operates outside of the areas in which it is supposed to operate.

What's wrong with ethanol? Let's just look at what will happen regarding cap and trade (a law that is supposed to reduce carbon emissions).

A new paper published in Science Magazine, a magazine not known to be critical of politically liberal ideas, reveals that ethanol generates the same or more greenhouse gases than burning fossil fuels.

Here's the first slight of hand that makes no sense: carbon generated by ethanol is supposed to be better than carbon from fossil fuels, because it "generates no new carbon." How does this work? Ethanol comes from plants. It makes carbon that goes into the atmosphere. Plants absorb carbon from the atmosphere. Thus the carbon from burning ethanol is recycled back into plants. Of course, carbon from burning fossil fuels also is recycled into plants. Plants can't tell the difference between ethanol generated carbon and fossil fuel generated carbon. It's all the same to them.

But here's where the case for burning ethanol breaks down even further. Biofuels are generally grown in third world countries. Ethanol is generally burned in developed countries. To grow the plants that are used to make biofuel mature forests are burned. Carbon that normally would accumulate in those forests is released to the atmosphere. Developed countries get cap and trade credit from ethanol even though they are generating the carbon emissions, and their biofuel is usually grown in a developing country where rain forests are burned down to make room to grow biofuel.

You can feel good about using biofuel. By using ethanol you are not only pushing people in developing countries closer to starvation by making food more expensive, you are striping their country of natural forests and adding to the carbon in the atmosphere. Way to go!!

Why You Can't Get The Swine Flu Vaccine

Does it seem like the flue season will be over before you get the opportunity to get the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. That just may be true thanks to the American government. Supply is far below the government's estimate of 40 million doses that were supposed to be available by November.

Why is that? Remember, what you are about to read is brought to you by the people who want to take over all of health care.

Last spring the government made the decision to not use vaccine additives. These are called adjuvants. They activate the immune system so that less vaccine is needed to provide immunity. The adjuvants are included in the vaccine worldwide--but not in the U.S. In Europe 3.75 micrograms per person is needed. In the U.S. 15 micrograms per person is required. If adjuvants were used we'd have four times as much vaccine and flu shots would be much more readily available.

Your government is working against your best interests.

Another government decision that is keeping you from getting the vaccine is that they are requiring vaccine be made using chicken eggs. Vaccine can be made much faster using mam made cells, as is done in Europe. By the way, this also means that if Europe was willing to share their vaccine with the U.S., it would not be allowed because it was not made using chicken eggs.

Once again your government is working against your best interests.

Plus there are other things such as vaccine being held back for weeks to check it for impurities. (There are faster ways to do this.) What really gets me is that the mainstream press is silent about this. If this was a Republican administration you'd hear the press screaming about dying babies and sick school children who couldn't get the vaccine because of the evil Republicans.

Is Government Your Savior #1

It's been a long time since I last posted here. I had not planned to start again, but what our government is doing, and the lack of reporting on it, have become so extreme that I must say something.

When I say the press isn't reporting on it, there is an exception. And that is what I'm using for my source. The Wall Street Journal. (It is the only major newspaper for which the number of subscribers is increasing.) We think of the Wall Street Journal as a newspaper for investors. That's true. And that's why the news is accurate. If a news source for investors allows political ideology to determine what they write and print, then it will ruin investors. To server investors -- both conservative and "progressive" investors, the news must be reported accurately so that investment decisions can be based on facts, not ideology.

So this is my source and what I'm seeing is an America gone crazy. I'll tell you why in the next few posts.