1/29/2012
Thank God (and Mother Earth) for "Fossil Fuels"!
Living "green" is costly! The amount of time and labor it took 100+ years ago before widespread use of "fossil fuels" (green old days), to put food on the table was mucho/mucho times that of today. To compare think of a fast food burger costing $25 or more, and you get the drift of the amount of labor that was involved just to eat! Today (so far)living “green” and “off the grid” are options ONLY for the richest among us... the poor man cannot afford it (yet)! As of now it is VERY expensive to maintain that “morally superior, I’m better than you "green" attitude.
Petroleum and the so-called “fossil fuels” (coal, natural gas, etc.) are among the greatest gifts ever given to the human race by Mother Earth (maybe even God)! They have been used to produce thousands of useful products… motor fuels to medicine to many of the building materials that make our houses homes. There are also used for uncountable other life benefitting miracles we cannot imagine! With the passing of time and the accumulation of knowledge and experience, they also have become more and more “clean” energy.
Most of human history has been a struggle to survive, with the large majority of people barely eaking out a subsistance. The discovery and development of these “fossil fuels” have been a main engine that have fueled (pun intended) our enormous increase in prosperity, over these last 100 years or so! Fact is... they are the keystones of it! What’s one of the biggest reasons for their success? They have been amazingly cheap and efficient for most of our history! Yet one wonders, why do more and more of otherwise seemingly intelligent people now desire to bite this hand that feeds us so well? They bleat on and on about their dreams of “alternatives” as if their Pollyanna dreams will just make it so. So far all these “alternatives” are prohibitively expensive and will be so for the foreseeable future. Wind farms require hundreds of acres to produce a fraction of the energy of the “fossil fuel”… the land costs alone make it not practical. Solar cells take years to recover the cost of their installation… and the suns gotta shine. Otherwise no go!
Petroleum and the so-called “fossil fuels” (coal, natural gas, etc.) are among the greatest gifts ever given to the human race by Mother Earth (maybe even God)! They have been used to produce thousands of useful products… motor fuels to medicine to many of the building materials that make our houses homes. There are also used for uncountable other life benefitting miracles we cannot imagine! With the passing of time and the accumulation of knowledge and experience, they also have become more and more “clean” energy.
Most of human history has been a struggle to survive, with the large majority of people barely eaking out a subsistance. The discovery and development of these “fossil fuels” have been a main engine that have fueled (pun intended) our enormous increase in prosperity, over these last 100 years or so! Fact is... they are the keystones of it! What’s one of the biggest reasons for their success? They have been amazingly cheap and efficient for most of our history! Yet one wonders, why do more and more of otherwise seemingly intelligent people now desire to bite this hand that feeds us so well? They bleat on and on about their dreams of “alternatives” as if their Pollyanna dreams will just make it so. So far all these “alternatives” are prohibitively expensive and will be so for the foreseeable future. Wind farms require hundreds of acres to produce a fraction of the energy of the “fossil fuel”… the land costs alone make it not practical. Solar cells take years to recover the cost of their installation… and the suns gotta shine. Otherwise no go!
12/09/2011
The Obama DotCom “Bubble”?
Once upon a time (in 2008) there came a presidential candidate... his name: Barak Hussein Obama. Little was known about him but(funny?), most of the establishment media curiously weren’t very curious about him... it was such a GREAT story, the first African-American (aka: black) with a good chance to be elected president, (no matter he had no birth certificate)! The big media were enthusiastic players (and salespersons)in this political scenario, soon casting aside the normal questions as to qualifications and background and also tossing aside the assumed Democrat front runner, Hillary Clinton... for this "clean articulate" new guy! Wild speculations ensued, tingles went up/down media pundit's legs, and adoring praise was heaped upon “HIM” creating a kinda messianic figure! For a mostly unknown, unvetted (and still so) first term Senator from Illinois... go figure?(Never lets fact get in the way of a good story!). The excitement generated by the media sales job encouraged lotsa folks to “buy”. Especially first time and young voters... it all seemed SO GOOD! We would have a big lovefest, racism would end, the oceans would recede, the world would love us, cheap “green” energy soon available to all, and maybe even our rent and mortgage would be paid! Good times a'comin'... what’s not to like?
Hmmm???? Leads one to recall... In recent years we have seen other wild speculations and tingles. In the stock market from 1998 to 2002, there was what is now known as the “Dot Com Bubble”. During these four years many online businesses were created... t’was the new big thing! Soon E-Commerce would overtake ordinary retailers and the sky was the limit... we’d all get rich, good times a'comin' forever! Internet based companies sprung up like mushrooms after a summer rain... IPO’s were offered and these companies stocks were eagerly purchased by many investors. Prices soared! Trouble was... many of these companies offered no REAL products... they were mere promises and speculations with some very "creative" accounting. But these stocks were traded as if they were real stuff. Some folks became very wealthy, those smart or fortunate enough to sell at the height of the boom. But soon many began to learn much of the Dot Coms were “hot air” no real stuff... when folks began to realize that values were way above any reality, panic ensued causing massive selloffs and POP went the bubble... assets quickly became worthless, 401K's bombed and trillion$ were lost!
The housing bubble was a slightly different phenomenon; here there were products of real value, houses. But when Fannie and Freddie and banks were pressured by politicians to “help the little guy” (main movers Democrats in Congress led by Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Cris Dodd)... many more people entered the market. The supply of houses could not grow enough to keep up with demand... prices soared, way above the REAL value of these properties. $100,000 houses sold for $250K with many of the loans very shaky and poorly researched. The banks and brokers, backed by promises of Fannie and Freddie were enthusiastic players as many received payment upfront or quickly packaged and sold the loans to others (SUCKERS!). Soon, as the these loans came due buyers who NEVER would have qualified under any reasonable rules began to default... panic ensued values dropped few could sell, fewer could now buy... many are “under water” and POP went the bubble! Assets quickly became worthless and trillion$ were lost! (sound familiar?). As with most liberal programs from "Great Society" till now... those who were to be helped were the most hurt.
History was made November 4, 2008, as Obama was elected POTUS, along with large Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress (gotta love a good sales job). Now... (OMG!) they had to govern! And at a time when the country was reeling economically from all the body blows of the bubbles bursting!
Note:The GOP accommodated the election of Obama by nominating a feckless “I dunno if I really wanna be Republican” candidate, 71 year old John McCain... a war hero but his best years are behind him. Poor John could not excite many folks... save introducing us to Sarah Palin, his single greatest contribution during the whole sordid and failed campaign. Sadly, most of the insider GOP want to take this tack again in 2012, makes one wonder... who's side are they own?
Since ascending to the highest office in the world and for two tortuous years forcing the oft-failed socialist agenda on an increasingly reluctant public at every turn... many have now discovered Obama and his hyper-liberal buddies in Congress also have no REAL products or solutions! All they sold us were mere vague promises of candycanes and sugarplums... (can you say “dotcom”?). His solution to everything is MORE spending, more private sector strangling regulations and more taxes on just about every apect of life... yet the economy continues to faulter and unemployment stays stubbornly high (even with cooked books, that would Paula Deen envious!). Could an observer now conclude we have another “bubble” soon to burst? Like DotCom and housing, did wild speculations raise the "paper" value of a junior senator from Illinois to hugely overvalued status???? All hype and little substance, as a great nation sinks into an economic and spiritual morass (I gotta great idea: blame Bush)!
Will voters now “sell”? We saw what may be a beginning of a MASSIVE sell off in the mid-terms of November 2010... will it complete in 2012! But the wealth and freedom lost as a result of the “Barak Obama DotCom Bubble” so far may be incalculable! More assets became worthless, 401K's bombed and trillion$ lost! Could it be (maybe just maybe) the sales people (BigMedia/politicians) were a bit dishonest in all these bubbles... Hmmm??? Now we will see an all new sales pitch (hate the rich...tax the rich, yada, yada, yada) in a new attempt to repackage and sell the same old Obama snake oil...(only the fools buy twice?) maybe we need MORE federal regulation to protect us?! Problem is... what can we do when our "protectors" are also our oppressors?
Hmmm???? Leads one to recall... In recent years we have seen other wild speculations and tingles. In the stock market from 1998 to 2002, there was what is now known as the “Dot Com Bubble”. During these four years many online businesses were created... t’was the new big thing! Soon E-Commerce would overtake ordinary retailers and the sky was the limit... we’d all get rich, good times a'comin' forever! Internet based companies sprung up like mushrooms after a summer rain... IPO’s were offered and these companies stocks were eagerly purchased by many investors. Prices soared! Trouble was... many of these companies offered no REAL products... they were mere promises and speculations with some very "creative" accounting. But these stocks were traded as if they were real stuff. Some folks became very wealthy, those smart or fortunate enough to sell at the height of the boom. But soon many began to learn much of the Dot Coms were “hot air” no real stuff... when folks began to realize that values were way above any reality, panic ensued causing massive selloffs and POP went the bubble... assets quickly became worthless, 401K's bombed and trillion$ were lost!
The housing bubble was a slightly different phenomenon; here there were products of real value, houses. But when Fannie and Freddie and banks were pressured by politicians to “help the little guy” (main movers Democrats in Congress led by Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Cris Dodd)... many more people entered the market. The supply of houses could not grow enough to keep up with demand... prices soared, way above the REAL value of these properties. $100,000 houses sold for $250K with many of the loans very shaky and poorly researched. The banks and brokers, backed by promises of Fannie and Freddie were enthusiastic players as many received payment upfront or quickly packaged and sold the loans to others (SUCKERS!). Soon, as the these loans came due buyers who NEVER would have qualified under any reasonable rules began to default... panic ensued values dropped few could sell, fewer could now buy... many are “under water” and POP went the bubble! Assets quickly became worthless and trillion$ were lost! (sound familiar?). As with most liberal programs from "Great Society" till now... those who were to be helped were the most hurt.
History was made November 4, 2008, as Obama was elected POTUS, along with large Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress (gotta love a good sales job). Now... (OMG!) they had to govern! And at a time when the country was reeling economically from all the body blows of the bubbles bursting!
Note:The GOP accommodated the election of Obama by nominating a feckless “I dunno if I really wanna be Republican” candidate, 71 year old John McCain... a war hero but his best years are behind him. Poor John could not excite many folks... save introducing us to Sarah Palin, his single greatest contribution during the whole sordid and failed campaign. Sadly, most of the insider GOP want to take this tack again in 2012, makes one wonder... who's side are they own?
Since ascending to the highest office in the world and for two tortuous years forcing the oft-failed socialist agenda on an increasingly reluctant public at every turn... many have now discovered Obama and his hyper-liberal buddies in Congress also have no REAL products or solutions! All they sold us were mere vague promises of candycanes and sugarplums... (can you say “dotcom”?). His solution to everything is MORE spending, more private sector strangling regulations and more taxes on just about every apect of life... yet the economy continues to faulter and unemployment stays stubbornly high (even with cooked books, that would Paula Deen envious!). Could an observer now conclude we have another “bubble” soon to burst? Like DotCom and housing, did wild speculations raise the "paper" value of a junior senator from Illinois to hugely overvalued status???? All hype and little substance, as a great nation sinks into an economic and spiritual morass (I gotta great idea: blame Bush)!
Will voters now “sell”? We saw what may be a beginning of a MASSIVE sell off in the mid-terms of November 2010... will it complete in 2012! But the wealth and freedom lost as a result of the “Barak Obama DotCom Bubble” so far may be incalculable! More assets became worthless, 401K's bombed and trillion$ lost! Could it be (maybe just maybe) the sales people (BigMedia/politicians) were a bit dishonest in all these bubbles... Hmmm??? Now we will see an all new sales pitch (hate the rich...tax the rich, yada, yada, yada) in a new attempt to repackage and sell the same old Obama snake oil...(only the fools buy twice?) maybe we need MORE federal regulation to protect us?! Problem is... what can we do when our "protectors" are also our oppressors?
12/05/2011
I have become convinced all Liberals/”Progressives”/Leftists are clinically depressed
From observing the OWS protesters, the media and “Progressives” worldwide, and even President Obama … I have become convinced all Liberals, ”Progressives”, and Leftists are clinically depressed. They show signs of depression in blind faith to a vaporous concept known as “Hope and Change” as their only guarantee of making a living. Most “progressives” in the general population have some college, so one might assume they are “educated”… but the more “educated” they are the more depressed and angry they seem. So much for modern “education”... much of which has taught this through a depressing constant curriculum of America’s bad, Capitalism is “unfair”, God is nonexistent, truth is relative and ideological... so you don’t have a chance in this sad Godless world without Nanny government! Damn! I get depressed just thinking about it!
With most modern “education’ dismissing the founding Judeo-Christian concepts of our American experiment… victims of this “education” (OWSers/”progressives”) are as much “bitter-clingers” as those Obama spoke of in his infamous comment about clinging to “God and guns”. They “bitter-cling” to a cloudy nebulous promise of the Nanny state "to care" for them… perpetual spoiled children that they have become!
One of the most telltale signs of depression is an increasing disregard for one’s appearance and personal hygiene… this has become the standard for OWSers nationwide. Their camps are trash heap testaments to this symptom! Depressed people also are fast to deflect responsibility for their circumstances and quick to anger when confronted of their behavior... as they are but helpless blameless victims of the "greedy/selfish right wing" rich! It’s ALWAYS another’s fault... they are blind to their own greed and selfishness... that constant demand to have for their own what another has earned (aka: "Tax the Rich" give it to me)!!! We see this more and more in our president as his failures continue to multiply, but ALL are the fault of the heartless GOP/Tea Party (even when he had large majorities for two years in Congress).
As we approach the 2012 elections, President Obama is more and more accusatory of Congress and the people themselves (accusing us of “being lazy”)… as he descends into increased denial of the abject failure of his and the Democrats socialist fantasy. For the 2012 election expect even more frustration as his and all “progressives” depression will metastasize into anger and rage... lead by the BlameStreamMedia.
There will be NO “Hope’n Change” in his 2012 campaign… it will be full throttle class warfare as well and efforts to create ethnic and racial warfare as well, among Americans of similar class and status (divide and conquer). The Democrats “hope” being enough Americans will “change” to also being depressed/angry and buy into the vitriol and blame game... to reach that elusive 270 electoral votes.
If he succeeds… more and more Americans will join the depressed, passive and defeated population of Obama’s base, and it may be the beginning of the end of American exceptionalism. For socialism can only “succeed” with a hopeless depressed population of losers… who are willing to accept a grim rationed subsistence, from an all-knowing, all-powerful Nanny government... and call it “life”.
How depressing!!!
With most modern “education’ dismissing the founding Judeo-Christian concepts of our American experiment… victims of this “education” (OWSers/”progressives”) are as much “bitter-clingers” as those Obama spoke of in his infamous comment about clinging to “God and guns”. They “bitter-cling” to a cloudy nebulous promise of the Nanny state "to care" for them… perpetual spoiled children that they have become!
One of the most telltale signs of depression is an increasing disregard for one’s appearance and personal hygiene… this has become the standard for OWSers nationwide. Their camps are trash heap testaments to this symptom! Depressed people also are fast to deflect responsibility for their circumstances and quick to anger when confronted of their behavior... as they are but helpless blameless victims of the "greedy/selfish right wing" rich! It’s ALWAYS another’s fault... they are blind to their own greed and selfishness... that constant demand to have for their own what another has earned (aka: "Tax the Rich" give it to me)!!! We see this more and more in our president as his failures continue to multiply, but ALL are the fault of the heartless GOP/Tea Party (even when he had large majorities for two years in Congress).
As we approach the 2012 elections, President Obama is more and more accusatory of Congress and the people themselves (accusing us of “being lazy”)… as he descends into increased denial of the abject failure of his and the Democrats socialist fantasy. For the 2012 election expect even more frustration as his and all “progressives” depression will metastasize into anger and rage... lead by the BlameStreamMedia.
There will be NO “Hope’n Change” in his 2012 campaign… it will be full throttle class warfare as well and efforts to create ethnic and racial warfare as well, among Americans of similar class and status (divide and conquer). The Democrats “hope” being enough Americans will “change” to also being depressed/angry and buy into the vitriol and blame game... to reach that elusive 270 electoral votes.
If he succeeds… more and more Americans will join the depressed, passive and defeated population of Obama’s base, and it may be the beginning of the end of American exceptionalism. For socialism can only “succeed” with a hopeless depressed population of losers… who are willing to accept a grim rationed subsistence, from an all-knowing, all-powerful Nanny government... and call it “life”.
How depressing!!!
11/04/2011
Socialism... the Ultimate Ponzi Scheme!
With OWSers taking over many of the public parks in our cities and with the Obama "Jobs Bill" being used to accuse Conservatives of malice. On can conclude the mantra of Socialism is not much different than the Serpent’s (Genesis 3) pitch in the Garden... a seduction, with similar results!!! These days with Obama, Pelosi, Reid and their band of Democrat and media pals, we are hearing its off-key siren song again... the lyrics now being "Healthcare Reform", "Cap'n Trade", "Stimulas" and "job creation"... in the effort to avoid actually using the "S" word. But it's all still bad rhymes!!!
Socialism survives on promises... once under its tyranny, the folks too late realize the delivery of these promises is a far different matter! Socialism is really a huge Ponzi pyramid scheme (or maybe a southern ante-bellum plantation)... those in charge at the top live LARGE... the "regular" folks not so good. Innovation and creativity is frustrated and oppressed with bureaucracy multiplied to strangulation levels... the purpose to maintain the sacred status quo! To do and maintain this, control of information, education and the media is essential. Human vices (especially those of the flesh) and "alternative life styles" are encouraged and glorified. Traditional Judeo-Christian faith and morality are discouraged, ridiculed and marginalized… the main vehicle for this being the now state-controlled "arts", entertainment and education industries. Media "stars" are anointed and given conditional top tier pyramid status, based on their adherence to the "party line" (as the state has now replaced God, the rulers are often given godlike admiration by the selected media). Opposition media if allowed at all, is viciously attacked using such thuggish Orwellian named tactics as “fairness doctrine” “diversity” and “net neutrality”.
Those at the top of the pyramid continually agitate those below to be in constant conflict with each other... using all things cultural and ethnic to maintain the strife (so we don’t see that our common struggle is against the top pyramid "Bernie Madoff" types). Those of us among the "lesser" are fortunate if we can maintain a rationed subsistence... long lines for most everything among us “common” folk are the SOCIALIST REALITY! (Note last years toilet paper shortage in Cuba). However, to "comfort" us and assuage our misery we have the option of blaming our misfortune on the various “enemies of the day”! This could be big corporations, "greedy" Wall Street, insurance companies, or even Fox News... but NEVER government!
One wonders why if Socialism is so wonderful, why don’t Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela have an illegal immigrant problem? Seems to me they should have to build walls to keep people out! But their walls are designed to keep the people in! It’s amazing in America today, how many of our fellow citizens buy the PROMISE (of something for nothing) and not the REALITY (the aforementioned “rationed subsistence”) of Socialism! Go figure? Convinced that the (never delivered) promised good life of Socialism is “just around the corner” many become willing slaves to the oppressive Nanny state, marching into HELL with a smile on their face!!!
To close with a paraphrase of wisdom gleaned from 18th century patriot Samuel Adams, (with some 21st century context adjustment liberties): Those who know not the Lord, are doomed to live in tyranny, but tyrants cannot (for long) rule righteous men.
God save us, send revival to the land!
Socialism survives on promises... once under its tyranny, the folks too late realize the delivery of these promises is a far different matter! Socialism is really a huge Ponzi pyramid scheme (or maybe a southern ante-bellum plantation)... those in charge at the top live LARGE... the "regular" folks not so good. Innovation and creativity is frustrated and oppressed with bureaucracy multiplied to strangulation levels... the purpose to maintain the sacred status quo! To do and maintain this, control of information, education and the media is essential. Human vices (especially those of the flesh) and "alternative life styles" are encouraged and glorified. Traditional Judeo-Christian faith and morality are discouraged, ridiculed and marginalized… the main vehicle for this being the now state-controlled "arts", entertainment and education industries. Media "stars" are anointed and given conditional top tier pyramid status, based on their adherence to the "party line" (as the state has now replaced God, the rulers are often given godlike admiration by the selected media). Opposition media if allowed at all, is viciously attacked using such thuggish Orwellian named tactics as “fairness doctrine” “diversity” and “net neutrality”.
Those at the top of the pyramid continually agitate those below to be in constant conflict with each other... using all things cultural and ethnic to maintain the strife (so we don’t see that our common struggle is against the top pyramid "Bernie Madoff" types). Those of us among the "lesser" are fortunate if we can maintain a rationed subsistence... long lines for most everything among us “common” folk are the SOCIALIST REALITY! (Note last years toilet paper shortage in Cuba). However, to "comfort" us and assuage our misery we have the option of blaming our misfortune on the various “enemies of the day”! This could be big corporations, "greedy" Wall Street, insurance companies, or even Fox News... but NEVER government!
One wonders why if Socialism is so wonderful, why don’t Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela have an illegal immigrant problem? Seems to me they should have to build walls to keep people out! But their walls are designed to keep the people in! It’s amazing in America today, how many of our fellow citizens buy the PROMISE (of something for nothing) and not the REALITY (the aforementioned “rationed subsistence”) of Socialism! Go figure? Convinced that the (never delivered) promised good life of Socialism is “just around the corner” many become willing slaves to the oppressive Nanny state, marching into HELL with a smile on their face!!!
To close with a paraphrase of wisdom gleaned from 18th century patriot Samuel Adams, (with some 21st century context adjustment liberties): Those who know not the Lord, are doomed to live in tyranny, but tyrants cannot (for long) rule righteous men.
God save us, send revival to the land!
11/01/2011
Media and Democrat KKK teach Herman a lesson!
10/31/2011
Herman Cain a black man the "Knows His Place"!
10/07/2011
Sums it up for me...
10/05/2011
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
Tonight we learned of the passing of Apple magnate Steve Jobs… a mega-entrepreneur and developer of a myriad of useful and fun products, concepts and gadgets. Some argue he ranks among such greats as Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford in his contributions to the lives of us all. But we must also remind ourselves he was also a mega-billionaire, and as such (taking account my “progressive” President’s recent arguments) we must also ask did Steve Jobs pay his “fair share”, and maybe since he was a billionaire… we should just hate him?
9/21/2011
Where's Michelle's concern about this obese man?
8/24/2011
Politician Promises???
