Anti-Incumbent Sentiment Raises Dead

April 15th, 2010 by David Dansker

unc_sam.gifThe candidate running against an incumbent mayor died a few weeks before the election, but he won the office anyway.  Carl Robin Geary beat out incumbent Barbara Brock by 268 to 85 in Tracy City, Tenn.1  If this small town is a microcosm for this coming November elections, Americans may have a chance to push back against Obama and the democrats’ Marxist take-over before it’s too late.  It will be no sure victory to rely on the courts alone to decide the unconstitutionality of Obama Care as they are being packed with communists.  Let’s go out there and win one for the Geary!

1. NewsMax, “Dead Man Wins Mayor’s Race in Small Tennessee Town,” April 15, 2010. http://newsmax.com/US/US-ODD-Dead-Election/2010/04/15/id/355803

In England: Better to Be a Goldfish

April 2nd, 2010 by David Dansker

aspongediverswallowedbyaseamonsterxx33.jpgEngland’s National Health Service (NHS) will pay an abortion provider over $600 to abort a baby within the first 24 weeks after conception.  The only qualification for the taxpayer funded abortion is that the mother must feel disposing of the baby is in her best interest.  Mishandle a gold fish in England, however, and the wrath of the government’s righteous indignation will brand, fine, work, and confine the offender.

Pet store owner Mrs. Higgins sold the fish to an undercover 14 year old in a sting operation.  Had Higgins carded the boy, she would have discovered he was under 16; which is the legal age to purchase a pet.  She was prosecuted at a cost of $25,000 and convicted, fined $1,500, ordered to perform 150 hours of community service,  and tagged with an electronic device to enforce her seven week curfew at home from 6pm to 7am each day.  Now that the 67 year old woman is under wraps, gold fish can finally feel safe about going out at night.

Iain Veitch, head of public protection (now there’s a misnomer), took pains to make it clear that no scales would be ruffled on his watch.  “Let this conviction send out a message that we will not tolerate those who cause unnecessary suffering to animals,”1 Veitch thundered from his throne, with a bundle of “statutory powers” clasped in his hand like lightning bolts ready to strike the next offender.  The gold fish?  The press reports it “was later adopted by an animal welfare officer and is in good health.”2 If the animal welfare officer is taking suggestions for an inscription on the gold fish bowl, consider this: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Psa 9:17).

Notes: 

1 - 2.  Jaya Narain, “Pet shop owner fined £1,000 and told to wear an electronic tag… for selling a GOLDFISH to a boy aged 14,” Mail Online, Mrch 31, 2010.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262250/Pet-shop-owner-sold-goldfish-boy-hauled-court-ordered-wear-electronic-tag.html

An Ounce of Prevention May Be Fatal

March 30th, 2010 by David Dansker

vesalius1xx22.jpgEmployees who put in the years of service required to earn retirees’ health benefits from their companies are destined to be dumped onto the Medicare rolls by the new healthcare law.  The law closed a provision where employers received a tax deduction incentive to carry prescription drug benefits for their retired workers.  Companies such as AT&T, 3M, Caterpillar, AK Steel Corp, and now Prudential Financial Inc have begun taking millions, and even billions of charges against earnings to adjust for the government takeover of the health care industry.1 These new tax laws are designed to give incentives to employers to discontinue this prescription drug coverage by making it too expensive for them to offer.  To compete with companies overseas with much less labor costs, American companies will be forced to cut prescription spending.2  The government’s funnel for collecting everyone into one long waiting line for less care, less often, is taking shape.  But less actually is more when the government controls healthcare.

Preventative care will be a large thrust of the new healthcare law, and for the government to manage this aspect of healthcare they must also manage the patients.  The new prescription identification cards will contain patients’ medical records along with restrictions on what they can eat and where they can go; purely for health concerns of course.  These cards must be swiped at the market to make purchases, and items not approved for consumption by the government will not scan for checkout.  These restrictions will be adjusted to support global warming and other political initiatives.  Many will be restricted to high-fiber low protein diets to render them docile and manageable, and told they are saving the planet.

When the psychological health component of the new law goes into full swing, patients will be profiled for mental health restrictions.  Patients may be diagnosed at risk for a plethora of new disorders, and earn behavior restrictions limiting their associations.  These will determine what events they may attend, places they may travel to, and groups they may join.  To prevent the fraudulent use of counterfeit health cards, they will be replaced by implants inserted under the skin. The saying that ‘if you have your health, you have everything’ is true, and it is also true that when the government has your health, they have everything.

Notes:

1. Google News, “Prudential to take $100M health care charge in 1Q,” March 30, 2010. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jq4y4VraHNPT_G-NnV80IEiW-FkwD9EOJ5E80  

Josh Funk, “Companies say health care costs hard to swallow,” Google News, March 26, 2010. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmzNv5LYXOA6UM_XmUHdOe9augtQD9ELVL3G1  

Hate Registry for Students Secretly Targets Parents

March 14th, 2010 by David Dansker

walking_with_dinosaursxx22.jpgTeachers in England are now required to record instances when racist or homophobic words are used at school and initiate a file on students who use them in a hate register.  This requirement is for students aged five and up.  Once initiated, the file will be maintained though secondary school.  This rule must be complied with whether the child knows the meaning of the words or not.  Use of the word “gay” would land a child on the hate registry because that word is often used to denote something inferior and less desirable, and this is the actual reason behind the registry.1 Although the government claims its about bullying, it’s really about something else. Students who discriminate between the practice of homosexuality and heterosexuality and conclude God’s design is to be preferred are being targeted for remediation by the state.  They must be taught to believe that both sexual behaviors are equal, and it follows that they don’t graduate until they demonstrate that they have successfully learned the lesson.

Insidious as it is, the reach of the hate registry won’t end there because there is second hidden reason for the database.  The database provides government with illegal access into private homes and families to survey attitudes and beliefs.  They will use the information they force the teachers to collect to assess parents’ compliance with desired political teaching at home, and they will be able to target those who don’t meet government standards for mandatory parenting classes.  Failure to attend these classes may result in the state taking custody of the children to give them a proper education.  It’s coming.  The evolution of the word “homophobic” demonstrates the process.

AB: Article Brief for this article available here.

Notes:

1. Ryan Kisiel and Steve Doughty, “Pupils aged five on hate register: Teachers must log playground taunts for Government database,” MailOnline, March 4, 2010.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255264/Pupils-aged-hate-register-Teachers-log-playground-taunts-Government-database.html#ixzz0hD7DHmdN

AB: Article Brief for this article available here.

Islamic Theology: Christians Murdered

March 8th, 2010 by David Dansker

245px-joseph_martin_kronheim_-_foxes_book_of_martyrs_plate_vii_-_death_of_cranmerxx22.jpgAn estimated 500 Christians, mostly women and children, butchered with machetes as soldiers delay assistance for two hours in Nigeria.  Witnesses describe victims were caught in fish nets and animal traps before being hacked to death by Muslims in the three-hour period on Sunday.  Reports claim Muslim village residents warned in advance to escape by text messages.  The murderers chanted “Allah is the greatest” in Arabic as the hymn accompaniment to the exercise of their religion of peace.1  This is Islam, and the engine of its violence is Islamic theology. In countries that look the other way and allow Islamic religion to come to full expression, this is the fate that awaits Jews, Christians, and any others who refuse to convert to Islam.

1. Aminu Abubakar, “Appeals for calm after Nigerian sectarian slaughter,” Google news (AFP), March 8, 2010.   http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h9mUhpdN3aBNC7zA7AgyCwUaOIDA  

Obama Creates Green Jobs: Not for Americans!

March 3rd, 2010 by David Dansker

windturbinexx22.jpgThe majority of wind turbines used to build a Texas wind energy project are scheduled to be manufactured in China.  The $1.4 billion project is made possible by stimulus money which is U.S. taxpayer money that was supposed to go towards stimulating the U.S. economy, and not the Chinese economy.   Upon learning of this misappropriation of U.S. tax dollars, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat, New York, has requested a moratorium on spending the money until legislation can be written to stop the flow of stimulus money to foreign countries.  Schumer wrote to Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, that “The idea that stimulus funds would be used to create jobs overseas is quite troubling.”1  In a lame attempt to mollify the Senator, Chu wrote back that the “installation jobs” would be created in America.2  Those American jobs, however, compared to high-skilled manufacturing positions and training, are of far less value in terms of worth and future careers.  Obama routinely claims that green jobs are America’s economic future, but any expenditure of American tax dollars to bolster Chinese manufacturing capabilities which at the same time reduces American manufacturing infrastructure to little more than an army of cable installers is un-American.

1 - 2.  Senators Seek to Block Stimulus Money for Overseas,” FOXNew.com, March 3, 2010. http://newsmax.com/Politics/US-Stimulus-Foreign-Jobs/2010/03/03/id/351459

What Exactly Was Global Warming?

March 1st, 2010 by David Dansker

margerie_glacierxx33.JPGBecause it hasn’t happened, and according to the global warming conspirators’ predictive time line we can tell that it’s not going to happen, now would be a good time to reflect on exactly what anthropogenic global warming was supposed to be.  Global warming was something we were destined to witness, experience, and suffer under if we didn’t obey every word that came out of Al Gore’s mouth, give all our money to the UN, and go agrarian (greens eating greens).  Americans were decried as the obstructionists who were in large part responsible for impending doom because we wouldn’t knuckle under and commit civilizational suicide.

So what was global warming supposed to do, that is be doing, by now? Christopher Booker at the Telegraph.uk in England reminded his readers a few days ago that the fear mongers and conspirators threatened climate change on the order of “the destruction of Himalayan glaciers and Amazonian rainforest; famine in Africa; fast-rising sea levels; the threat of hurricanes, droughts, floods and heatwaves all becoming more frequent.”1  None of these climate changes are happening as the warmists claimed they would, and some activity, such as falling sea levels and the occurrence of hurricanes are actually moving in the opposite direction from their predictions.   Booker takes time to point some of this out because the exposed conspirators are attempting to wiggle.

The contention is being heard from some that just because they got a few of the facts wrong, the science is, as the EPA recently put it, “settled.”2  Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for who is suing the EPA in court over that ‘settled’ science to block the EPA from using it to ruin our lives.3

We also owe the English newspapers for keeping the heat on the warmists and getting the facts out in what is the biggest scandal in history.  It is not merely matter of warmists getting a few facts wrong; it is the discovery that conspirators knowingly suppressed evidence that refuted their climate claims, acted to prevent other scientists from having their studies that contradicted global warming from being published, manipulated computer models to get the results they wanted, and did all of this in order to lie to the world to get the political and financial policies they desired for prestige and profit.  That is what global warming was.

Notes:

1. Christopher Booker, “A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC,” Telegraph.co.uk, February 27, 2010. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7332803/A-perfect-storm-is-brewing-for-the-IPCC.html

2. Molly Henneberg, “EPA, Countering Critics of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says ‘Science Is Settled,” FOXNews.com, February 19, 2010.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/19/epa-countering-critics-greenhouse-gas-findings-says-science-settled/

3. Rex Springston, “Va. challenges EPA’s stance on global warming,” Richmond Times-Dispatch, February 17, 2010. http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/article/CUCC17_20100216-222005/324766/

Global Warming Hoax Proves Expensive

February 28th, 2010 by David Dansker

katrina-08-28-2005xx22.jpgThe English government is spending approximately $92 million dollars to purchase carbon credits as a consequence of surpassing their CO2 emissions cap.  The Certified Emissions Reduction (CER) credits will be brokered by Barclays, JP Morgan and company who will earn about $13 million in fee for the transaction.1  The CER program is run by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and England is forced to pay this emissions fine because they are a signatory to the Kyoto climate treaty.  In addition to making bankers richer, the millions of taxpayer dollars go from the pockets of England’s taxpayers to the pockets of corporations in China and India.  What England gets in return for all that money is nothing, unless you count the feeling some global warming theorists get for believing they are saving the planet from anthropogenic global warming; which, as Climategate has revealed, is still nothing.  America would suffer nearly the same fate as England if we let cap-and-trade legislation pass into law.  Eventually, every economy tied to the UN style scam will collapse.  Even if Englishmen came to their senses tomorrow and somehow bailed out of the UN’s global warming hoax, they will have as much luck getting their money back as they would chasing a postage stamp in a hurricane.

1. Christopher Booker, “L60 bill for the CO2 of our political class,” Telegraph.co.uk, February 20, 2010.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7280348/60m-bill-for-the-CO2-of-our-political-class.html

Obamacare In England: Ready America?

February 24th, 2010 by David Dansker

runningmanxx22.jpgThe Obamacare system currently in use in England shows patients routinely go without food and drink and bathing in hospitals due to budget constraints. Care Quality Commission and Health Department regulators report that as many as 1200 patients who died exceeded those expected from 2005 to 2008.  This figure is probably based on records indicating the reasons for admissions, and what the probable outcomes should have been after treating those aliments in a hospital with reasonable standards of care.  Obviously, those standards were far from met in a hospital where “some lay in soiled sheets that relatives had to take home to wash, others developed infections or had falls, occasionally fatal,” and where “the attitude of some nurses ‘left a lot to be desired’.”1  Thus far, 400 deaths as Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation have been attributed to substandard treatment described as “appalling” in the TimesOnline.2  Well, bad news first, now the good news. Everyone has access to Obamacare in England.  Ready America?

1 - 2. Stafford Hospital caused ‘unimaginable suffering‘,” TheTimesOnline, February 25, 2010.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article7039285.ece

States Challenge EPA’s Green Authority

February 21st, 2010 by David Dansker

gdhs_2095_22954300xx22.jpgThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), working closely with the Obama administration, declared last December that green house gases, including carbon dioxide, are dangerous to human health.  This gives the EPA the ability to act alone in setting emission standards that would begin to strangle industry and send America’s economic downturn into a complete nose-dive.  Obama is threatening to turn the EPA lose to do just that if he doesn’t get his cap-and-tread legislation from congress which will virtually do the same thing.  This ‘damned if you do, and damned if you don’t’ alternative, coupled with the exposure of the global warming hoax still unraveling in the press, has finally prompted states to take action in court.  Texas has filed a petition in federal court to challenge the EPA’s authority, and the state of Virginia has done the same.  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli noted that the anticipated action of the EPA would put a “staggering burden” on Virginians.1  He’s right.  That’s what the EPA wants to do, and that is what Obama wants to do, and they need to be fought until they stagger out of the ring and retire.

1. Molly Henneberg, “EPA, Countering Criics of Greenhouse Gas Findings, Says ‘Science Is Settled’,” Fox News.com, February 19, 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/19/epa-countering-critics-greenhouse-gas-findings-says-science-settled/